Chai Gui

[ ] Ch I Gu Pinyin name 's
[ alias ] three ribs, cinnamon, cinnamon
[ source ]
Medicine source: as the Lauraceae plants Chai Gui bark or leaves.
Latin animal mineral name: Cinnamomum tamala ( Buch.-Ham. ) Nees et Eberm. [ Laurs tamala Buch.-Ham ]
Harvest and storage: collected all the year round, chopped, dried.
[ ] the original form of Chai Gui evergreen trees, high up to 20m. Bark gray-brown, with aroma. Branches dark brown, glabrous, slightly puberulent when young, gradually glabrescent later. Leaves alternate or subopposite; petiole length5-13mm, glabrous; leaf blade ovate, oblong or lanceolate, long 7.5-15cm,3-5.5cm wide, apex long acuminate, base cuneate or broadly cuneate, margin entire, above green, light green, white below, glabrous on both surfaces, from the base three veins, midrib and lateral veins in leaf above slightly raised, the following significant convex sides, reticulate veins slightly obviously, thinly leathery. Inflorescences axillary and terminal, long 5-10cm, scanty by gray puberulent, branched end with3-5flower as cymose arrangement; flowers bisexual, about 6mm long, white and green, peduncular long4-6mm, was gray, white puberulent; perianth tube inverted conical, ca.2mm, perianth lobes obovate-oblong, long about 4mm, about 1.5mm wide, apex obtuse; fertile stamens 9, filaments was gray, white pilose,1-2wheel stamens ca.3.8mm, anthers ovate-oblong, long 1.3mm, room 4, introverted valved, filaments ca.2.5mm, eglandular, third stamens ca.4mm, anthers oblong, long 1.5mm room 4, extroversion, valved, filaments ca.2.5mm, near the lower part1to ovate-cordate glandular; staminodes 3, long 1.7mm, pilose, sagittate, stipitate; ovary ovoid, ca.1.2mm, pilose, style long3.6mm, stigma is not obvious. Flowering4-5.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in a hillside or valley evergreen broadleaved forest in or near water.
Resource distribution: distribution in the western and southern Yunnan.
[ character ]
1character identification bark slightly cylinder, a cylinder or irregular pieces, length of unequal thickness. Outer bark grey brown, with gray lichen spots and inconspicuous lenticels; inner surface is reddish brown, smooth, no obvious thin vertical lines. Hard and brittle, fracture surface. With special aroma, sweet, spicy.
Thin skin, oil, concentrated flavor, sweet and spicy, chew less residue is preferred.
2microscopic bark transverse: cork cell series, wall thickness, wood. Cortex is more thick cell wall, square, diameter 32-40um, uniform wall thickening or wall thickness. The pericycle site stone cell populations are intermittently arranged into a ring, stone cells, the majority of oblong, long diameter is 72-180-240/ m,32-80/ m short diameter, wall thickness of 20-28m, also have short oval or circular, diameter 60-70um. Phloem bundle outer end has a larger stone cell population and a small amount of thick wall cells scattered in the. Ray cells have a small party of calcium oxalate crystal.
[ ] the bark and leaves are chemical composition containing volatile oil, leaf oil as the main ingredient eugenol ( Eugenol ), accounting for 78%, also contains the phellandrene ( phellandrene ), camphor ( camphor ) etc.. The bark of the main constituents of the volatile oil of cinnamic aldehyde ( cinnamaldehyde ) etc.. Chai Gui the other containing 3,4,5,7- four hydroxy flavone (3,4,5,7-tetrahydroxyflavone ),3,3 ',4',5,7- five hydroxy flavone (3,3 ',4',5,7-pentahydroxyflavone ), kaempferol - 3 -, - glucoside ( kaempferol-3, glucopyranoside ), kaempferol - 3 -, - Huai glucoside ( kaempferol-3, sophoroside ), kaempferol - 3,7- two -, - rhamnoside ( kaempferol-3,7-di -, - rhamnopyranoside ) and quercetin rutinoside ( - 3-O - quercetin-3-, - rutinoside ).
[ ] on the pharmacological effects of volatile oil of stomach with local stimulation, can relieve or ease the nausea and flatulence.
[ ] the taste of Gan Xin; temperature;
[ ] liver spleen meridian tropism;
[ ] temperature functions through the meridians; Qi pain. The main cold Bitongkang; abdomen distending pain; dysmenorrhea; traumatic injury
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, grind end,0.3-0.5g3-6g. External: moderate, milling, powder.
[ note ] who Yin is banned take.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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