Meconopsis horridula

[ source ] from" the common Chinese herbal medicines in Tibet"
Pinyin name ] [ Duō Cì L Ró n H āo
[ ] Herb of Spiny Meconopsis English name
[ alias ] Wubalashaierbu ( Tibetan name ).
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: Poppy Meconopsis horridula entire grass.
Latin plant animal name: Meconopsis horridula Hook.f.ex Thoms. mineral
Harvest and storage: the summer harvest, removes the dirt, impurities, cutting, drying in the shade.
[ ] the original morphology of Meconopsis horridula annuals, about 15-20cm high. The whole plant is brown or pale yellow hard and spreading hairy spines. Root fertilizer and long. Stems nearly absent or very short. Leaves basal; petiolar long 0.5-3cm; leaf blade lanceolate, long 5-12cm, width of 1cm, entire or undulate, covered with yellowish brown or yellowish spreading. Scapes hard, usually 5-12or more; flowers solitary in scapes, half drooping, diameter of about2.5-4cm, sepals 2, with pale yellow hairy spines, green, caducous; petals 4-8, blue, purple, broadly obovate, long 1.2-2cm, width of 1cm; stamens numerous, up to 1cm, filaments filiform, color a deep long petals, anthers1.5-2mm; ovary conical, are yellow-brown flat or inclined exhibit spines, style, stigma capitate. Capsule ovate, elliptic or oblong, long 1.2-1.5cm, ferruginous or brown spreading or recurved spines, usually3-5flap from the apex to the full length of the1/3-1/4shaped crack. Florescence 7-8 month, month of fruit period 9-10.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in elevation of 4100-5400m grass, gravel seam.
Resource distribution : distribution of Tibet, Yunnan, Sichuan, Qinghai, Gansu and other places.
[ character ]
Character identification of this product into short, unequal length. Root diameter of cylindrical, long 0.3-1.5cm,0.5-1cm; Tan surface, a longitudinal grain and fine grain; yellow-white section, high bubble loose, fractured. Stem length1-3cm, diameter 0.3-1cm; surface yellow-green or brown, longitudinally school, densely yellow spines; the section grayish brown or brown, hollow. Leaf crinkle, green to green brown, two sides has yellow spines, primary veins conspicuous to rear projection. Petals deciduous or residue, pale yellow or dark brown; stamens numerous; style persistent, stigma lobes integrally, a dark brown head shape, densely light tan or brown pilose. Capsule ovate, elliptic, densely yellow quills. Physical light. Gas seal, mild.
Microscopic identification of the transverse section of the stem: epidermal cells of 1 columns, is slightly thick, outer cuticle; visible spines or its residue, cell wall thickness, wood; a few flat pit. Cortical parenchyma cells near the sequence, the1column of cells with irregular surface, slightly flattened. Vascular monocyclic type, about 30, an intermittent cyclic permutation, often the size of phase. The phloem is narrow, a crescent shape; xylem arranged slightly fan-shaped, the catheter diameter12-30 μM. Paper tube bundle foreign has a hat-shaped sclerenchyma cell diameter,12-34μ m, wall Shaohou, micro wood. Pith parenchyma cells developed, some with pits, a larger central medullary cavity.
Powder characteristic: Brown green. ①quills quills large debris, multicellular, thickness of wall and wood. The exocarp of debris in round or rectangular wood, wall thickness, containing more yellowish spherical form ferrite. ③endocarp cells bent irregularly shaped apertures, obvious. The catheter is the main thread and reticulate vessel, micro lignified, thread the catheter diameter is 9-30μ m,14-30μ m reticulate vessel diameter. The pith parenchyma cell debris everywhere, cell rectangular, circular, visible wall hole. The leaf epidermis cell of uncommon, upper and lower epidermis stomata are visible, as the infinitive, accessory cell4-6.
[ ] the chemical composition of grass contains protopine ( protopine ), ( coptisine ), berberine allocryptopine ( allocryptopine ), Blackwater papaverine ether (amurensinine), ( woo fiance) Kang acid ( meconic acid ) and poppy red base (papaverrubine ) D, E.
[ ] taste cold; bitter; a small drug
[ ] the liver meridian tropism
[ ] functions of promoting blood circulation to remove blood stasis; heat-clearing and detoxicating. The main injuries; fracture; chest pain; wind-heat headache; joint swelling and pain
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,1.5-3g; or into the pill, powder.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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