The coarse stems arched bottom

[ ] C J Pinyin name reports n Lu: Gu D be
[ alias ] Gong bottom, lotus, Qu Lian snake.
[ source ]
Medicine source: for the Cucurbitaceae heterophylla root red please.
Latin animal mineral name: Thladiantha hookeri C.B Clarke
Harvest and storage: the autumn and winter, excavation, removal of Rhizoma and fibrous root, clean cut, dried or dried. This product is easy to mildew, moth, not damp, summer, autumn should be much ted.
[ ] the original morphology of climbing groundsel herb. Root oblate, weighing up to tens of kilograms, stems can be up to2-4( - 10) m, diameter10mm, much branched, nearly glabrous. Leaves alternate; petiole slender, long 3-6cm, glabrous or only puberulent; leaf blade membranous, not split or a regular2-3 cleft, ovate, long 8-12cm,4-8cm wide, apex acuminate, base cordate, margin sinuolate, with sparse small, above the white dots below verrucous, glabrous, subglabrous. A single, slender, glabrous. Dioecious; male inflorescence racemose or with a single, glabrous. Dioecious; male inflorescence racemose or with a single flower and flower,3-7(- 12) was born in2-4cm long inflorescence axis, ebracteate, rachis slender, glabrous; pedicels filiform, solitary flowers up to2.5cm, born in inflorescence long and less than1cm; calyx tube broadly bell shaped, long 3-4mm, upper width 6-7mm, are sparsely pilose, lobes straight, narrowly triangular, veins 3, corolla yellow, lobes ovate, long 1-1.2cm, width 0.5cm, outside glabrous, inside a mastoid protuberance, stamens 5, filaments glabrous; male and female flowers single, pedicels filiform, long 2-4cm, beginning with puberulent, glabrescent old calyx, corolla, with male drug, but compared to show large, medicine calyx lobes long 1cm, corolla lobes near2cm; ovary fusiform, length 1-2cm, diameter3cm, outside densely yellow-brown villous, two narrow, style fine, long 4cm, apex points of trigeminal, column off dilated, reniform, long 3mm. Fruit oblong, length 4-6cm, diameter 2-3cm, two ends slightly rounded, smooth skinned. Seeds broadly ovate, long7mm, width 5mm, base ministry blunt circle, two arched, smoothing. Flower and fruit of4-6.
[ ] bitter taste; astringency; slightly cold; the small poison
[ ] functions stomach qi, detoxification. The main indigestion; abdomen distending pain; sore throat; cough; Xie Li
[ usage] oral administration: grind end, each 0.6-1.5g.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]

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