Lycopus lucidus

[ source ]" Materia Medica" from Jia You
Pinyin name ] [ Dì Sǔ n
[ English ] Rhizome of Shiny Bugleweed name, Shiny Bugleweed
[ alias ] root, sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes, Eupatorium adenophorum, ground, ground into a bamboo, lotus root, wild three seven, water three seven, the dry lotus root
[ source ]
Source: for medicinal Labiatae plants shoot and hairy leaf shoot.
Latin botanical mineral name: Lycopus lucidus Turcz.Lycopus animal lucidus Turcz.var.hirtus Regel.
Harvest and storage: collected in autumn, removed the part on the ground, washed, dried.
[ ] the original morphology
Herbs perennial, up to1.7m. With multicell cylindrical underground traverse the roots, the festival has scales and fibrous roots. Stems erect, unbranched, four prism, festival was purple, glabrous or with tufts of hairs at the festival. Ye Jiaohu opposite, extremely shortly stipitate or sessile; lower stem leaves fall off, the upper leaves elliptic, narrowly oblong or showed lanceolate, long 5-10cm, wide 1.5-4cm, apex acuminate, base attenuate in dry form, margin with irregular coarsely sharply serrate, surface dark green, glabrous, Lve Youguang marsh, under mask sunken glands, glabrous and sparsely white pilose on veins in. Verticillaster inflorescence many flowered, axillary; bracteoles ovate-lanceolate, apex with sharp thorns, a calyx shorter or subequal, pilose; calyx campanulate, ca.4mm, both surfaces glabrous,4-6 cleft, lobes narrowly triangular, apex awned spiny; corolla bell-shaped white, long 4.5-5mm, outside glabrous, yellow glandular dots. On the lower lip, upper lip, subequal, apex retuse, labium 3 crack, middle lobe larger, suborbicular,2lateral lobes slightly short of; fertile stamens 2, beyond the corolla slightly apart, chamber, after the stamens reduced, only filaments remnants or sometimes disappear, sometimes4 stamens completely degraded, only the filaments, anther residual benign; ovary oblong,4 crack greatly, inserted on disk, style extends out from the corolla, glabrous, stigmas2 crack is not equal, flat. Nutlets flat, three prism shape pouring egg, long 1-1.5mm, dark brown. Florescence 6-9 month, month of fruit period 8-10.
The variety and different lies in: angle of stem is white to small bristles, festival dense bristles; leaves lanceolate, dark green above, two acuminate, densely fine setaceous bristles, below the main ribs and veins is setaceous hirsute, margin with a Sharptooth, and ciliate.
[ character ] trait identification of rhizome resembles a decan, length 4-8cm, diameter 1cm. Surface yellowish brown, with 7-12link. The brittle, section white. Aroma, mellow taste.
[ ] the chemical composition
Shoot all1grass containing sugars: glucose ( glucose ), half clothing sugar (galactose), glucose ( lycopose ), Eupatorium adenophorum stachyose and raffinose ( stachyose ), ( raffinose ), sugar ( sucrose ) [1,2], the other containing shellac wax ( lacceroic acid ), betulinic acid ( betulinic, acid ) ursolic acid ( ursolic acid ),β- sitosterol [3].
2. Leaves to shoot the whole grass containing volatile oil and tannins [4].
[ ] taste sweet; Xin Ping;
[ ] functions of removing blood stasis and hemostasis; Qi Li water. Epistaxis hematemesis; main; postpartum abdominal pain; jaundice; Peng swollen; belt; qi asthenia
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,4-9g; or leach liquor. External: amount, trace and apply; or leach liquor Tu.
[ ] the discussion
1" Chinese Materia Medica": Nine" gleaning, pass blood, pus blood.
2" Materia Medica": Hua Zi only nose Hong, hematemesis, postpartum heart pain.
3" herbal": classification and nourishing the blood, complement fine solid gas, governance woman weak white surface.
4" compilation" common folk herbal : treat weak, up in the air, water consumption, cure leucorrhea.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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