Large black ant

[ ] from Chinese herbal medicine in Yunnan.""
Pinyin name ] [ Dà Hē I H āo
[ ] Herb of Denseflower Blumea English name
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: as the Compositae dense flowers of Blumea balsamifera total grass.
Latin botanical mineral name: Blumea densiflora DC. animal [B. excisa DC.; B. densiflora DC. Var. pinnatifida Miq.]
Harvest and storage: summer and autumn harvest, cut and dried.
[ ] the original form dense flowers Ai Naxiang herbs or subshrubs,1-3m. Stems stout, branched, with edges, brown glandular densely villous are dogs; young branchlets and inflorescence axis hair more will, internodes 4-6cm. Stem leaves broadly elliptic, narrowly elliptic or oblong-lanceolate,22-42cm. Stem leaves broadly elliptic, narrowly elliptic or oblong-lanceolate,22-42cm long,8-16cm wide, apex with small pointed, base attenuate the narrowly winged on both sides of the handle, sometimes with a dentate appendages, margin pinnately lobed or deeply lobed, lobes with the fine tooth, the glandular villous, below is densely woolly; upper leaves smaller, long elliptic, long 7-20cm, wide 3-8cm, country margin pinnately lobed or only coarse teeth. The capitulum is extremely most, shortly stipitate, in the top row of the stems and branches with leaves in large panicles; involucral bell; involucral bracts ca. 5layer, outer layer of green, oblong-lanceolate, abaxially pilose, middle and inner line, back is sparsely hairy; torus honeycomb; more female flowers, yellow flowers; corolla limb3-4tooth crack; bisexual flowers are relatively few, corolla limb5lobed, covered with multicellular hairs section. Achene is cylindrical, with edges, white pilose; crested light reddish brown, brown hairy. Flowering in November to April the following year.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in elevation of 1500-2800m will forests or valley forest edge.
Resource distribution: distribution in southeastern Yunnan.
[ character ] trait distinguishing the grass will have white hair. Stems woody at base, branched, with edges. Leaves pinnatipartite, leaf margin serrate. Capitate most, terminal or axillary; flowers yellow. Gas smell, taste bitter.
[ ] the whole grass chemical composition containing Tithonia diversifolia lactone ( tagitinin ) A,19-O- ethyl round leaf Tithonia diversifolia lactone (19-O-ethyl-terotundin ethyl ether ),1-3 α(2-α - hydroxy methyl butyl acyloxy ) - isoalantolactone [1α -hydroxy-3 α(2-methylbu-tanoyloxy ) -isoalantolactone],1 α- hydroxy -3α- isobutyl acyloxy of alantolactone (1 α -hydroxy-3α -isobutyry-olxyisoalantolactone ),1 α,2α- two - -3(2-α - methyl butyl acyloxy ) - isoalantolactone [1 α,2 α -diydroxy-3α( -2-methylbutanoyloxy ) -isoalantolactone],1 α- hydroxy -3 αacetoxy -2-,3 α- two - -2(2-α - methyl butyl acyloxy ) of civil Xiangxiang lactone [1α -acetoxy-3 α-hydroxy-2 α(2-methylbu-tanoyloxy ) -isoalantolactone], -3- ( -2-1 α - hydroxy methyl butyl acyloxy ) - pinnate helenalin [1α -hydroxy-3- (2-methylbutanoyloxy ) -pinnatifinin],1 α- acetyl oxygen based -3- (2- methyl butyl acyloxy ) - pinnate helenalin [1α -acetoxy-3- ( -methylbutanoyloxy ) -pinnatifidin][1].
[ ] taste bitter cold;
[ ] functions of clearing away heat and cooling blood; cut malaria. The main cold and fever; enteritis; hypertension; malaria
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,3-6g, cut malaria amount to.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]

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