Multiple spike Shi Keguo

Pinyin name ] [ Duō Suì Shí KēGu ǒ
[ alias ] sweet fruit
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: as Fagaceae multiple spike Stone Oak fruit.
Latin animal mineral name: Lithocarpus polystachyus ( Wall. ) Re-hd. ( Quercus polystachyus Wall.; Q.litseifolius Hance; Lithocar-pus Litseifolius ( Hance ) Chun )
Harvest and storage: summer, autumn when ripe, fresh or dried.
[ ] the original morphology of evergreen trees, tall 11-15m. Branchlets are brownish when dry, the old dark brown black. Ye Husheng; petiolar long 2-2.5cm, basally thickened, are usually dark brown, sometimes grayish white Creme; leaf blade leathery, elliptic or egg shape is elliptic, long 7-14cm, wide 3-4cm, apex acute or abruptly acuminate, base cuneate, margin entire, glabrous, slightly gray and white below, lateral veins 7-10on the branch, slender, alienation, slightly obviously, small veins often not obvious. Male inflorescences few complex spike; female flowers3 clusters, often1 flower seed. Infructescences8-10cm long, slender shaft, the diameter is about 5mm; cupules pan shape, enclosing nut base, diameter 9-14mm, high 3-5mm; scaly bracts wheel arrangement, fine, except for the top and cupule healing, is brown and black hair; nuts is flat globose, the diameter of 1.6-1.8cm, length 9-13mm, immature at the top of cone shaped when mature, nearly flat, Central has short cusp, base truncate, glabrous; hilum deep invagination, diameter 6-8mm. Florescence 5-9 month, the month of fruit period5-9.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in altitude 400-2000m mountain forest, roadside shrub occasionally.
Resource distribution: distribution in the area south of the Yangtze river.
[ ] sweet taste astringent; flat;
[ indications ] heweijiangni. The main hiccup; dysphagia
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,15-30g.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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