Ailanthus bark

[ ] Pinyin name Dà Guǒ Chò u Ch ūn P í
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Medicine medium source: Simaroubaceae Ailanthus altissima root bark.
Latin animal mineral name: Ailanthus altissima ( Mill. ) Swingle var.sutchuenensis ( Dode ) Rehd.et Wils. [A.sutchuenensis Dode]
Harvest and storage: spring, summer digging roots, scrape off the rough skin, take root bark, shredded, dried.
[ ] the original morphology of Ailanthus altissima Swingle deciduous trees, tall 10-30m. Bark gray or gray-brown, young branchlets glabrous, red brown, shiny. Odd pinnate leaves alternate; petiolules purple, long 5-10mm; leaf blade ovate-lanceolate, usually larger, long 9-14cm, wide 1.5-7.5cm, apex acute or acuminate, base cuneate to rounded, margin ciliate, near base on both sides of a coarse teeth on each1-2, coarse teeth back has1 glands. Flowers small, dioecious, white with green, formed many branched panicles, long 35-50cm; petals ca.2.5cm, both surfaces pilose, male flowers with stamens 10, longer than petals, filaments basally was thick hairs; female flowers stamens shorter than petals, carpels 5, style twist, adhesive, post 5 crack. Samara oblong-elliptic, long 4.5-7cm, wide 1.5-2CM, microstrip red brown. Seed 1, located near the middle of samara. Florescence in June, month of fruit period 7-10.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in altitude 1700-2500m roadside, mixed forest or shrub edge.
Resource distribution: located in Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Yunnan.
[ ] with chemical composition of root bark of Ailanthus bitter elements ( ailanthin ) and saponins ( saponin ); wood containing resin (resin ), tannins (tannin ), carbohydrates ( carborhydrate ) and vanillin ( vanillin ) etc..
[ ] taste bitter astringent; cool;
[ indications ] heat dampness; detoxifying insecticides. The main dysentery hematochezia; metrorrhagia;; belt; sore and carbuncle
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,6-12g. External application: suitable, washed fried or boiled paste.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]

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