Northeast wormwood

[ source ] from" Chinese pharmaceutical field guide".
[ ] Pinyin name Dō n Bě I Hu íH āo
[ English ] flower bud of Manchurian Wormwood name
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: as the Compositae northeast wormwood.
Latin animal mineral name: Seriphidium finitum ( Ditag. ) Ling et Y. R. Ling [Artemisia finita Kitag].
Harvest and storage:8-9 month bud a bud just ready to burst when harvesting, drying in the shade.
[ ] the original morphology of northeast wormwood herbs suffrutescent,50-60cm, entire individual plant by filamentous woolly. Taproot thick, woody; rhizomes short and thick, black, diameter 1-2cm, often old petioles residues, a majority or minority, woody perennial nutrition branch, branch length3-6cm, tufted, upper part densely many leaves. Stems erect, solitary or clustered, the lower part of the upper half of wood, wood; mid above many branched, branches obliquely upward, long 4-10cm. Root leaf and nutritive branches with a long handle, petiole up to 5cm; lower stem leaves and nutrition leaves oblong or long ovate, long 2-3( -5) cm, width 1.2-2cm, two to three back to pinnatisect, lobes narrowly linear; upper stem leaves gradually small, alternate,3 lobed or unlobed. Capitate, oblong-obovate or oblong, diameter 2-2.5cm, sessile or nearly sessile, base the Ministry has linear small bracts, the branches lined slightly lax spikes, and on the stem component stenosis or secondary spreading panicles; involucre ca.4mm,4-5layer, outer total bracts small, ovate, middle-level involucral bracts ovate, transparent green, back ribs, inner involucral bracts ovate or narrowly oblong, half membranous, abaxially sparsely hairy or subglabrous; bisexual flowers flower corolla3-9(-13), tubular, with glandular dots, anther filaments forming the apex appendages, linear, base obtuse, style and corolla subequal, apex slightly fork, fork ends obtuse, slightly eyelashes. Achenes, small, obovate. Flower, month of fruit period 8-10.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in low altitude gravelly slopes, semi-desert grasslands river shores of meadow and grassland.
Resource distribution: located in Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang and other places.
[ ] this product chemical composition containing santonin -β - (β -santonin ) and northeast of santonin ( finitin ).
[ ] taste spicy; bitter cold; toxic;
[ indications ]. The main ascariasis; enterobiasis
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,10-15g; or at the end of the inquiry; or leach liquor.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]

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