Melastoma root

[ ] from south of the Five Ridges." They recorded"
Pinyin name ] [ Dì Rě n Gē n
[ English ] root of Twelve stamen Melastoma name
[ alias ] to nightshade root, Nim root, Tan foam
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: Melastomataceae plants the root of Melastoma dodecandrum lour.
Latin botanical name: Melastoma dodecandrum Lour. animal fossil
Harvest and storage:8-12 months of digging, washed, chopped, dried or fresh.
[ ] the original morphology of dwarf shrubs, tall 10-30cm. Stems creeping up, section by section, rooting, ramose much, tumbling, the ground each strigose. Leaves opposite; petiole2-6mm; leaf blade firmly papery, ovate or elliptic, long 1-4cm, wide 0.8-3cm, apex acute, base broadly cuneate, margin entire or with dense shallow serrulate; basal veins3-5. Cymes terminal,1-3 having a flower, the base of a leaflike involucre of 2; pedicels 2-10mm; take 5numbers, calyx length of 5mm, strigose, hairs basally expand submits conic form, sometimes in clusters of 2-3, lobes lanceolate, long 2-3mm, edge spinescent hairy margin, lobes with1small lobes; petals purple to purplish red, obovate upper flagellum, slightly oblique,1.2-2cm long,1-1.5cm wide, apex with 1bundle of bristles, was sparsely ciliate; stamens 5long 5 short, elders connective base extension, bending, end with2short tubercles; connective not extended, medicine vibration base with 2tubercles; below, apex spinescent hairy. Capsule urn-shaped spherical, flat, near apex slightly constricted, endoplasmic reticulum, non-cracking, long 7-9mm, diameter of about7mm, persistent calyx strigose. Florescence 5-7 month, month of fruit period 7-9.
[ ] the chemical composition containing phenols, tannins, sugars, amino acids.
[ ] taste bitter sweet taste; flat;
[ ] to the liver; spleen; lung
[ function ] Huoxue attending; hemostasis; dampness; detoxification. Primary dysmenorrhea; labor; postpartum abdominal pain; retention of placenta; metrorrhagia; leucorrhea; cough; hematemesis; diarrhea; jaundice; lymph pain; chronic malaria; rheumatism; toothache; Luo Li; hernia; traumatic injury; snake bites
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,9-15g (fresh double); or ramming juice. External application: suitable, fried washed or trace and apply.
[ ] the discussion
1" plant is in" : cure strain.
2" south of the Five Ridges": the treatment of postpartum abdominal pain herbs were recorded, dysentery.
3" the materia medica": can stop bleeding and blood, detoxification eliminate hernia. Treatment of dysmenorrhea, disintegrating belt, bloody dysentery, hemorrhoids fistula, rubella, hernia.
4 Guangzhou troops" commonly used Herbal Handbook:" Sechang Zhili, massage, blood tocolysis. Governance enteritis, bacterial dysentery; low back and leg pain, rheumatic pain; pregnant woman anemia, fetal irritability, menorrhagia.
5" Fujian": Chinese herbs of invigorating the spleen and replenishing qi.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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