Mallow root

[ source ]1from" materia medica by a"2" Materia Medica" Justice: sunflower of sweet cold and slippery, Genshi stems of seedlings, and are all the same, the function is equal, discharge heat stranguria, lubricating two, all wet-hot suitable persons.
[ ] Pinyin name Dō n Kuí Gē n
[ ] Root of Cluster Mallow English name
[ alias ] sunflower root, soil of astragalus.
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: Malvaceae wild sunflower Malva verticillata L. and Malva crispa L. mallow root.
Latin botanical mineral name: 1.Malva verticillata L.[M.pulchella animal Bernh.]2.Melva crispa L.
Harvest and storage: summer, is collected in autumn, washed, fresh or dried.
[ ] the original morphology
1wild herbaceous biennial, high 60-90cm. The stem is stellate villous. Ye Husheng; petiolar long 2-8cm, just above the groove tomentose; stipules ovate-lanceolate, stellate pilose; leaf blade reniform to circle, diameter 5-11cm, usually palmately5-7 cleft, lobes short, triangular, obtusely pointed, edge is blunt teeth, two were very sparsely brown hairy or glabrous. Flowers3 to several flowers clustered in leaf axils, several sessile to have extremely short shank; involucral bracteoles3, linear-lanceolate, were cilia; calyx cupular,5 crack, broadly triangular, being sparsely stellate hirsute; corolla pale white to pale red, petals 5, long 6-9mm, apex concave, with claw; staminal column longer 4mm, hairy; style branches 10-11. Fruit oblate, diameter 5-7mm, mericarps 10-11, abaxial surface smooth, bilateral with reticulate. Seeds reniform, ca.1.5mm, purple-brown, bald clean. Florescence 3-11 month.
2of the species and wild sunflower mallow distinction: annuals, unbranched. Stems puberulent. Petiole slender, puberulous; leaf blade orbicular,5-7 cleft, diameter 5-8cm, base cordate, margin serrulate, particularly the wrinkling. Flowers white. Fruit oblate, ca.8mm, mericarps 11, mesh, finely pilose. Seed diameter of about1mm, dark black. Florescence 6-9 month.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in plain, mountain etc..
Resource distribution in China:1are distributed throughout.
2Southwest China and Hebei, Gansu, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan and other planting.
[ ] taste Gan; cold
[ ] to the spleen; Bladder Meridian of
[ ] clearing heat and diuresis functions; detoxification. The main edema; heating; belt; breast cancer; Ganchuang; snake bites
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,15-30g; or ramming juice. External application: suitable, grind end tune apply.
[ note ]" Materia Medica": justice of Spleen Yang depressed jiyong.
[ ] the discussion
1" materia medica by variorum": sunflower root juice solution oreoselinum poison.
2" do not recorded": primary malignant ulcer healing, leaching, Lee urine, Sichuan pepper virus solution.
3: the main Ganchuang glenoid, born on the surface, juice yellow, desirable root as ash and pig fat coating.
4" South Yunnan Materia Medica": broken nodes under the gas, gas, gas stop pain, sputum removing gall, raw powder, a purging, with honey fried.
5:" schema" and" slide, only diabetes, casual evil.
6" herbal" classification: treat woman leucorrhea, empty cough, night sweats.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]


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