Red cabbage

Pinyin name ] [ Dà Hó n Q īn Cà I
[ alias ] Ju three seven, azure, three seven red soil, wild vegetables
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: as the Compositae Kikuba Chisatohikaru root and the whole grass.
Latin botanical mineral name: Senecio chrysanthemoides DC. animal [Senecio Laetus Edgew.]
Harvest and storage:6-9 month recovery, wash, cut, use fresh or dried.
[ ] the original form of Kikuba Chisatohikaru perennial, up to 1m. Rhizomes of fibrous roots. Stems erect, unbranched or inflorescence branch, the upper cm, leaf base amplexicaul leaf expansion, changeable colorful, often Chengchang obovate-elliptic,8-15cm long,4-8cm wide, margin with irregular tooth leaves gradually small, pinnatifid, sessile, base auriculate amplexicaul. Capitate, compound corymbose arrangement, a plurality of elongated, stems, thin strip bract; the total world wide bell-shaped, diameter 3-4mm, length 4mm; involucral bracts10-12, oval dish, acuminate, margin broadly membranous; brim ligulate flower10-12, tongue yellow, oblong; central tubular flower number, pale yellow. Achenes, cylindrical, ca.2mm, glabrous, angled; white pappus of numerous, ca.4mm, sometimes a achenes no pappus, or fall off. Florescence 6-8 month.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in altitude 1200-2300m hills, valleys, grasslands or shrub edge, roadside ditches and weeds.
Resource distribution: distribution in the southwest and Hubei, Hunan, Tibet and other places.
[ ] root chemical composition containing Senecio Philippine Ling base (Seneciphylline ). Leaf volatile oil containingβ- thujone (β -thujone ),6- hydroxy - to - ( PMHP ) -4(5) - with -3- of [6-hydroxy-p-menth-4(5) -en-3-one]. The ground portion containing Kikuba Chisatohikaru acid ( chrysanthemoide ) is the Lα- acetic acid oxygen radicals -4α - hydroxy -5 α,6 β,7 α,11 β -H- Eucalyptus -2- with -12,6- lactide ( Lα -ace-toxy-4 α-hydroxy-5 α,6 β,7 α,11 β -H-eudesm-2-en-12,6-olide ), l- acetyl Artemisia lactide (1-acetylerivanin ) the1 α- acetic acid oxygen radicals -3 α- hydroxy -5α,6 β,7 α,11 β -H- Eucalyptus -4(15) - Triazene poly [1-12,6-α -acetoxy-3α -hydroxy-5 α,6 β,7 α,11 β -H-eudesm-4(15) -en-12,6-olide].
[ ] this product contains pharmacological effect of Senecio Philippine Ling base on rat and rabbit ileum in vitro have stronger spasmolytic effect.
[ ] taste slightly bitter taste; Xin; cool
[ ] functions of heat-clearing and detoxicating; blood stasis detumescence. The main sores; traumatic swelling and pain
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,10-15g, big agent to use to 30g. External: appropriate, fresh root trace and apply.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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