Smelly oil fruit

[ ] Ch u Y Pinyin name which I: u Gu
[ alias ] fragrant fruit, sweet Gui Zi, fragrant oil fruit
[ source ]
Medicine source: as the Lauraceae plants three band sweet fruit.
Latin animal mineral name: Lindera thomsonii Allen
Harvest and storage: the autumn and winter, when fruit is ripe, dried in the sun.
[ ] the original morphology of three shares of rib fragrant evergreen trees, high 3-10m. Bark brown. Branches of cylindrical, with fine longitudinal stripes, greenish or reddish, lenticels conspicuous; terminal buds ovoid, bud scales brown, densely silky puberulent. Leaves alternate; petiole length7-15mm; leaf blade ovate or long ovate, long 7-10CM, width 2.5-4.5cm, firmly papery, three arteries and veins or from the base three veins, two protruding. Umbels axillary; involucral bracts caducous; pedicels ca.4mm; male flowers3-4red, yellow, gray puberulous; tepals 6, ovate-lanceolate, filaments puberulous; round third stamens close base the Ministry has two round kidney shaped glands; female flowers with white, yellow or greenish yellow, gray puberulous; staminodes 9, third round sometimes petaloid, base the Ministry has two round kidney shaped glands; ovary ellipsoid, ca.2mm, and style subequal, both gray puberulous. Fruit is elliptic, long 1-1.4cm, black at maturity, fruit care about 2mm in diameter, stem length 1-1.5cm. Florescence in February, fruit6-9.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in1100-2500m elevation slopes in sparse woods.
Resource distribution: located in Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places.
[ character ]
Character identification of fruit ovoid or globose, length 5-8mm, diameter 5mm. Surface is reddish brown to black, with distinct reticulate wrinkles; apex obtuse, base Lodge deposit small cup shaped perianth residues, with small fruit stalk, about 5mm long, slightly curved, with a plurality of longitudinal wrinkles. Pericarp thin and crisp, easy to break off, have oily; seed1, globose, diameter of about4mm, testa smooth, apex obtuse tip; kernel pale yellow, significant oil. Gas specific, slightly bitter taste.
The body is full, rich and oily is preferred.
[ ] the taste of spice; temperature
[ function ] scattered attending cold; blood gas; pain relief. The main cold; rheumatic arthralgia cold pain in the abdomen; abdominal injuries;
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,3-15g. External: moderate, grinds end apply or washed fried.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
http://chinese-herbal-medicines-directory.blogspot.com/