Chizi wood

[ ] Pinyin name Ch Z M
[ source ]
Medicine source: Sterculiaceae Pterospermum leaves.
Latin animal mineral name: Pterospermum acerifolium Willd.
Harvest and storage: summer, autumn leaf collection, fresh.
[ ] the original morphology of Pterospermum big trees. Bark is smooth, young shoots densely hairy. Leaves alternate; petiole stout, striate; stipules laciniate, caducous; bracteoles laciniate or palmatipartite; leaf blade leathery, nearly round or oblong, margin entire, palmately lobed or coarsely toothed, length 24-34cm, width 14-29cm, apex truncate or nearly circular, and has a lobed or cusp, base cordate, it was sparsely hairy or glabrous, densely yellowish or below with gray stellate velutinous; basal veins7-12, leaf blade back projection in. Flowers single, white, fragrant; sepals 5, strip oblong, length 9cm, width 7mm, outside densely tawny pubescence, inner surface is white villous; petals 5, oblong, slightly into strips, wedge,7mm wide, slightly shorter than calyx, glabrous; staminode clavate, hairy; stamens 15, each collection of 3groups alternate with staminodes; ovary oblong, with 5corners,5 room. Capsule woody, oblong cylindrical, stipitate,5 had obvious concave surface or shallow ditch, length 10-15cm, width 5-5.5cm, first by a reddish brown hairs after, glabrous, apex obtuse, base attenuate, each chamber having a plurality of seeds. Seeds obliquely ovate, oblate, winged, wing large and thin, brown, smooth.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in1200-1780m elevation on the slopes.
Resource distribution: distribution in southern Yunnan, Fujian, Taiwan has cultivated.
[ character ] trait identification of leaf blade suborbicular or oblong. Length 24-34cm, width 14-29cm. Apex truncate or nearly circular, and has a lobed or cusp, entire, palmately lobed or coarsely toothed, base cordate, blade is sparse hairs or glabrous, leaf blade densely yellowish or grayish stellate velutinous, basal veins7-12, vein in back projection, leathery. Petiole stout, with stripes. Gas, slightly bitter taste.
[ ] the bark chemical composition containing acidic polysaccharides ( acidic polysaccharide ), cysteine ( cystine ), ( glycine ) glycine, alanine, tyrosine ( alanine ) ( tyro-sine ) and leucine ( leucine ). Leaves from the3-O galactoside namely clover beans glycosides ( kaempferol-3-galactoside, trifolin ), luteolin - 7-O - beta - D - glucoside ( luteolin-7-O - P - D-glucoside), luteolin ( luteolin ) and luteolin - 7-O - beta - D - glucuronide ( luteolin-7-O - P - D-glucuronide).
[ ] slightly bitter taste; flat
[ function ] stasis hemostasis. The main traumatic swelling and pain; trauma hemorrhage
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,6-15g, topical: amount, trace and apply.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
http://chinese-herbal-medicines-directory.blogspot.com/