Wood bark

[ ] Ch I H 's Pinyin names which have u P
[ alias ] soil of Magnolia officinalis
[ source ]
Medicine source: as of Magnoliaceae plants in Sichuan Magnolia bark.
Latin animal mineral name: Manglietia szechuanica Hu.
Harvest and storage: Summer stripping bark, airing or Kang dry.
[ ] the original morphology of evergreen trees, high up to 15m. Branchlets stout, first has a pale yellow hair, after a few glabrous, only section is left on the hair. Leaves alternate; petiole length1.5-2.5cm, white long-haired; Stipule scar length 9mm; leaves leathery; leaf blade oblanceolate or obovate, length 14-20cm, width 3.5-5cm, apex acuminate or short tail tip,1/3 following tapering to base into a wedge shape, dark green above, glabrous, pale green below, are pale brown short the bristles, along midvein yellow hair, lateral veins on 13-16, reticulate veins sparse, dry both sides of convex. Flowers solitary, pedicels thick, long 1.2-1.5cm. Tepals 9, outer rows of three, obovate, long 4-5.5cm, width of3cm, green and purple, sparsely villous, with nearly equal in outer wheels are thick, fleshy; stamens long 1.2-2cm, connective apex extending into a triangle mucronate; gynoecium egg shape is elliptic, long 2-2.5cm, base carpels narrowly elliptic, long 8-10mm, was pale yellow hair. Aggregate fruit closely, ovate, follicles wood, night save. Flowering of 5-6 months, fr.8-9.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in an elevation of 1300-2000m in the forest.
Resource distribution: distribution in northern Yunnan, southern and central sichuan.
[ character ] character identification bark with drum shape, thickness 3-5mm. The outer surface of grey brown or grayish yellow, cork is not falling, inner surface yellowish brown to purplish brown, has the obvious vertical texture. Hard brittle, easily broken, broken surface of the lateral particle, thick, medial fibrosis. Gas is weak, slightly bitter taste. Microscopic identification of bark transverse: cork cells more than 10columns, phelloderm by stone cells consist of intermittent zoning. Cortex is thicker, scattered stone cell populations, in the medial cortical some stone cell band; a fiber oil cells scattered in the associated. Phloem is wide, lateral stone cell populations are more numerous; fiber bundles, and phloem parenchyma and screen group interaction are arranged in layers; oil cells are scattered, with ray is many.
[ ] skin containing the chemical composition of magnolol and honokiol ( magnolol ), ( honokiol ), Magnolia curarine (magnocurarine), Magnolia coco alkali ( salicifoline ).
[ ] the pharmacological action of total phenolic content far below the magnolia, Magnolia officinalis but curare alkaloid content is higher than7~ 8 times, according to the existing data reports, Magnolia curare alkaloid with buck, muscle relaxation and ganglionic blocking effects.
[ ] bitter taste; Xin Wen;
[ function ] regulate qi and stomach; temperature antiemetic. The main abdominal distention pain; night food without; vomiting
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,6-12g.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]

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