Acer mono

Pinyin name ] [ Dì Jì Ji n Q ì
[ alias ] red maple, Acer, Wulong skin.
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: for the Aceraceae Acer mono branches, leaves.
Latin botanical name: Acer mono Maxim. animal minerals ( A.pictum Thunb. )
Harvest and storage: the summer harvest, fresh or dried.
[ ] the original morphology of Acer mono deciduous trees, tall 15-20m. The bark is rough, often cracks, grayish brown; branchlets slender, glabrous, current-year shoots green or purplish green, perennial branches gray or light gray, with orbicular lenticels; winter buds ovoid to globose, flake. Leaves opposite; petiole 4-6cm, slender, glabrous; leaf blade papery, appearance nearly elliptic, long 6-8cm, wide 9-11cm,5 crack, sometimes3 crack and7 crack with a tree; lobes ovate or broadly triangular, long acuminate, margin entire, glabrous, only the main vein axils with tufts of hair, main veins 5, above significantly, lateral veins on both sides were not significant, light green above, pale green below. Flowers numerous, polygamous, male flowers and andromonoecious, most often into a conical shape, corymbs terminal, glabrous; flowers with yellow green, peduncle1-2cm long; sepals 5, oblong, yellow green; petals 5, oblong, whitish; stamens 8, glabrous, shorter than petals, anthers yellow; ovary glabrous, in male flowers not development, style glabrous, stigmas2 crack, anti roll. Samara green purple green, pale yellow when mature, nutlets flattened, long 1-1.3cm, wide 5-8mm; wing oblong,5-10mm wide, together with a small nut is long2-2.5cm, spreading at acute or to obtuse, florescence in May, fruit period in September.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in altitude 800-1500m hills or valleys in sparse woods.
Resource distribution: distribution in the northeast, North China, central China, East China, southwest around.
[ ] leaf chemical composition containing Chrysanthemin ( Chrysanthemin ), Kanin ( canin ), Cara ( karacyanin ), and anthocyanins anthocyanins ( lycoricyanin ), paeoniflorin ( paeonin ), ( cyanidin ) of cyanidin, delphinidin ( delnhinidin ), ( peonidin ), peony of malvidin ( malvidin ).
[ ] Xin bitter taste; temperature;
[ indications ] Qufeng desiccant; promoting blood circulation and relieving pain. Primary headache; cold and dampness; traumatic blood stasis pain; eczema; mange
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, double10-15g, fresh goods. External application: suitable, washed fried.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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