DIFENGPI

[ source ] was first recorded in flora of Guangxi."".
Pinyin name ] [ Dì Fē n Pí
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: as the family Illiciaceae DIFENGPI bark.
Latin botanical mineral name: Illicium DIFENGPI B.N animal Chang et al.
Harvest and storage: spring, autumn Life Season adopt. The first10 years of the old plant, in tree bark side saw the upper and lower ends, a knife straight, will bark, bark remaining reserves will bark stripping, the ventilation vulva stem.
[ ] the original morphology of evergreen shrub, high 1-3cm. Bark gray-brown, with longitudinal wrinkles, crisp and easy to break section quality, particulate, aromatic twigs brown. Leaves usually3-5 piece set in Acremonium; petiole thick, long 1.3-2.5cm; leaf blade leathery or thickly leathery, glossy, oblanceolate, long elliptic or ovate-elliptic,10-14cm long,3-6cm wide, apex shortly acuminate, base cuneate or broadly cuneate, entire, margin slightly to the back flip. Flowers red, axillary or subterminal; pedicels 0.6-1.5cm; tepals 15-17, a few amount to 20, the biggest piece of broadly elliptic or suborbicular, ca.1.3cm, width 1cm, fleshy; stamens 21,18,20or 22thin, long 3.5-4mm,; carpels usually13, free, wheel arrangement. ( the original bone ) ( the original process) fruit 9-11, apex curved cusps, long 3-5mm, long1-4cm, fruit stalk. Florescence 4-6cm. Florescence 4-6 month, month of fruit period 7-9.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in altitude 200-500m limestone mountain peak or hill woodland under.
Resource distribution: distribution in southwest Guangxi area.
[ character ]
Character identification right slope is cylindrical or half cylinder, a double drum shape, length 5-18cm, diameter 1-3.5cm, thickness 2-3mm. The outer surface is greyish brown to dark brown, with irregular fine longitudinal wrinkles, occasionally white lichens spot, lenticels inconspicuous. Cork is easy to fall off his reddish brown bark; inner surface is reddish brown, with obvious fine longitudinal wrinkles. Qualitative crisp, easily broken, section of particle. Smell good. Taste slightly astringent. After immersion in water without mucilage exudation.
To the quality of crisp, aroma strong, big oil is preferred.
Microscopic identification of bark transverse: cork cell walls are thick, with red brown. Cortex have oval or round secreting cells. And the stone cell group and a fiber bundle. Phloem ray cells are mostly single cells are smaller; phloem secretion. Parenchyma cells containing red brown and starch grains.
Physical and chemical identification of the goods from the coarse powder2G, like the 5ml30min chlorination, immersion, filtration. To obtain filtrate in the filter, after working in the UV lamp (254nm ) was observed under, scarlet red to pale red scarlet fluorescent.
[ ] the chemical composition of volatile oil of 0.30%-0.71%, there are:α- and β - pinene ( pinene ), camphene ( camphene ),1,8- cineole (1,8-cineole ), linalool ( linalool ), Sassafras ether ( safrole ) ( camphor ), camphor, borneol acetate ( bornylacetate ), month Gui Xi ( myrcene ) and other 28components [1].
[ ] taste astringent; Xin; temperature; the small poison
[ ] to the spleen and stomach;
[ indications ] Qufeng desiccant; xingqizhitong. The main rheumatoid joint pain; lumbar muscle strain; centipede bite
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,6-9g. External application: suitable, levigation liquor tune apply.
[ ] the treatise" Materia Medica": Xinhua outline bark: pungent, Shibuya, temperature, a small drug. A carminative dampness, xingqizhitong function.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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