Skunk cabbage

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[ alias ] Heixiazi cabbage
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Medicine source: as a plant of the family Araceae found.
Latin animal mineral name: Symplocarpus foetidus ( L. ) Salisb. ( Dracontiumf oetidum L. )
Harvest and storage: summer, fall the excavation, abluent, cut use fresh or dried.
[ ] the original morphology of skunk cabbage, herbaceous perennial. Roots thick, diameter up to 7cm. Leaves basal; petiole length10-20cm; leaf length20-40cm, width 15-35cm, apex attenuate or obtuse. Inflorescence handle peripheral scalelike leaves long 10-40cm, long 3-20cm l-1.2cm peduncle, coarse; spathe base across central, swelling, half spreading into the egg shape is spherical, apex acuminate, recurved into a dark purple, outside decorated with purple line, length 10-16cm, diameter 4-5.5cm; spadix spathe short Yu Foyan green, purple, diameter 2.5-3cm, long0.5-1cm Terrier; malodorous flowers, bisexual; perianth segments 4, to gradually expand, arched; stamens 4; ovary subsidence on rachis,1 rooms, ovule several from the chamber top droop. Flowering5-6.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in elevation of300m following the moist coniferous or mixed forests, often marshy areas into the growth of large.
Resource distribution: distribution in Northeast Heilongjiang, Songhua River and the Wusuli River basin.
[ ] the chemical composition of grass butyl gallate ( butyl ga11ate ), calcium oxalate ( Calcium oxalate ) beta carotene (carotene ) ( vitamin ), vitamin A, beta sitosterol (sitosterol ), alpha amyrin ( a - amyrin ) and beta ( beta amyrin - amyrin ).
[ ] root decoction has the pharmacological effects of sedation, spasmolytic and expectorant effect.
[ ] taste spicy; bitter cold;
[ ] functions solution form antitussive expectorant and antiasthmatic. The main fever headache; bronchitis cough
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,9-15g.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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