Rotten vines

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Medicine source: Menispermaceae plants Mao Mu on Cocculus orbiculatus ( L. ) DC.var.mollis ( Wall.exHook.F.etThoms ) Hara stems.
Latin animal mineral name: Cocculus orbiculatus ( L. ) DC. ( C.trilobus ( Thunb. ) DC.C.sarmentosus ( Lour. ) Diels )
Harvest and storage: autumn harvest, removing impurities, dried.
[ ] the original morphology
1 wood on woody vines. Twigs densely pilose, old branches nearly glabrous, surface with straight lines. Leaves alternate; petiole length1-3cm, white pilose; leaf blade papery to subleathery, great shape variation, linear lanceolate to broad egg shape is nearly circular, narrowly elliptic to suborbicular, oblanceolate to obcordate, occasionally ovate-cordate, long 3-8cm, a few more than 10cm,1.5-5cm wide, apex acuminate, acute or blunt and has a small convex tip, sometimes emarginate or2 lobed, base cuneate, round or cordate, margin entire or3 lobed, sometimes palmately cleft in 5, two densely pilose to sparsely pilose, sometimes both sides subglabrous. Cymes in a single or panicle type arrangement, axillary or terminal, up to10cm or longer, puberulent; flowers unisexual, dioecious; male flowers: pale yellow; sepals 6, glabrous, outer ovate or elliptic-ovate, long 1-2mm, the inner wheel broadly elliptic, up to2.5mm; petals 6, wrap around acicular 's rounded, apex2 crack, on both sides of the base have ears, and inflexed,1-2mm long; stamens 6, shorter than petals; female flowers: sepals and petals as in male; staminodes 6, small; carpels 6. Drupe subglobose, purple or black when ripe, long 7-8mm. Flowering of 5-8 months, fr.8-10.
2 Mao Mu on the variants and Cocculus trilobus similarity, main point of difference is: Mao Mu Moore sepals abaxially white pilose.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment: born in 1 in hillside, scrub, forest edge, the roadside or in sparse woods.
2growth environment and the wood on the same.
Resource distribution:1distributed in East, South, southwest and Hebei, Liaoning, Shaanxi and other places, especially in the Yangtze River Basin and its common across the south.
2located in Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places.
[ ] the taste of bitter cold;
[ function ] and water swelling; wind; detoxification. The main edema; painful stranguric urination; rheumatoid arthritis; boils
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,5-10g.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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