Earth Star

[ source ]" West flora" contains: shaped like a puffball, as large as the projectile and rice flour dough, color like truffles truffle taste like, when young, old since the split as a flower with five petals, a finger inside red big, bomb the powder, if the error is a deaf ear. This means the goods, but not deaf, still waiting.
Pinyin name ] [ Dì Xī n
[ alias ] m shit wild, spider, wetland, Saturn bacteria, solitary, star mountain crabs, stone crabs
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: Geastraceae fungal hardcover star and geastrum triplex fruiting.
Latin animal mineral : 1. Geastrum hygrometricum Pers.[Astraeus hyrometricus stars ( Pers. ) Morg.; Geaster hygrometricus Mass.]2. geastrum triplex Geastrum tirplex ( Jungh. ) Fisch.[Geaster triplex Jungh.]
Harvest and storage: summer and autumn harvest, to clean impurities, dried.
[ ] the original morphology
1a star fruiting early spherical, from top to show star shaped open. Outsourcing is the 3 layer, the outer layer is thin fluffy, middle layer fibrous, cartilaginous. Mature into6 or more valve, wet back turned, when the stem is involute. The outer surface of gray to grayish brown. Inner pale brown, with irregular fissures. Within the bag is membranous, depressed globose, diameter 1.2-2.8cm, taupe. No axial. Mature top mouth. Spore body dark brown, spores are spherical, brown, wall with small warts, size7.5-11 μM. Capillitium colorless, thick wall without vibration, branched,4-6.5μ m diameter. Surface with granular material.
2pointed star package are round in shape, with a pointed top. Package size3-8cm, outsourcing is a awnlike cracking 5-8valve, abaxially gray, ventral cinnamon, a crack. Within the bag is gray, thin shape, diameter 1.7-2.7cm. Mature top crack. Spore body rust brown, the base of a short handle shaped shaft bracket. Spores are spherical, brown, warty process,3.5-5.5 μM. Spore wire line, pale brown, size5-6 μM.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment:1a star was born in pine sand land, also found in open field. 5-10common.
2pointed star was born in grassland or scrub land, sometimes in the leaf litter and humus. Summer, autumn rain common.
Resource distribution:1hardcover star located in the northeast, north, northwest, East, South, southwest and Tibet.
2pointed star located in the northeast, north, northwest, southwest and Tibet.
[ character ]
Character identification1hardcover star fruiting stellate outsourcing has been stripped. Within the bag is flat globose, diameter 1.8-2.8cm, the top mouth, gray to brown. Membranous. Spore body dark brown.
2pointed star within the bag is globose, diameter 1.7-3.5cm, mouth, broadly conical, powder gray to gray smoke, membranous. Spore body rust brown.
[ ] the taste of spice; flat
[ ] Qingfei Liyan; functions; detoxification; swelling; hemostasis. Primary cough; sore throat; boils water; chilblain; traumatic hemorrhage epistaxis hematemesis;;
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,3-6g. External application: suitable, grinds end apply.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]

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