In winter flax root

[ ] Pinyin name Dō n Lì Ji Má Gē n
[ alias ] water bast willow root
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: Urticaceae plant water Ma root or root bark.
Latin botanical name: Debregeasia orientalis C.J.Chen[D.edulis animal fossil auct.non ( Sieb.et Zucc Wedd.]. )
Harvest and storage: summer and autumn harvest, clean, fresh or dried.
[ ] the original morphology of deciduous shrubs, up to 1-3m. Branchlets slender, densely appressed hairs. Ye Husheng3-6mm; petiole long; leaf blade lanceolate or narrowly lanceolate, long 4-16cm, wide 1-3cm, apex acuminate, base rounded or obtuse, margin densely small teeth, above coarse, below the dense white short fluff; basal veins 3, lateral veins 5-6 pairs. Dioecious; inflorescence usually axillary unripe leaf scars, with short stalk, often two forked branches, each branch top the spherical clusters; staminate flowers: tepals 4, ca.1.5mm, stamens 4; female flower cluster diameter of about2mm. Infructescences globose, diameter up to7mm, achenes small, persistent tubular perianth yellowish orange, meat quality. Florescence 4-7 month, month of fruit period 6-8.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in the hills or low mountains or the edge of a forest stream.
Resource distribution: distribution in the southwest and Shaanxi, Gansu, Hubei, Guangxi and Hunan.
[ ] slightly bitter taste; Xin Ping;
[ indications ] Qufeng desiccant; Huoxue Zhitong; alexipharmic detumescence. The main rheumatic arthralgia; traumatic contusions; fracture; traumatic hemorrhage; sore carbuncle swollen poison
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,9-15g. External application: suitable, grind end spread; or fresh goods trace and apply.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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