Multiple spike Shi Keye

[ source ] from Jinhua" popular herbal prescription." unilateral
Pinyin name ] [ Duō Suì Shí Kē Yè
[ alias ] sweet tea
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: as Fagaceae multiple spike stone leaves.
Latin animal mineral name: Lithocarpus polystachyus ( Wall. ) Re-hd. ( Quercus polystachyus Wall.; Q.litseifolius Hance; Lithocar-pus Litseifolius ( Hance ) Chun )
Harvest and storage: spring, summer, autumn leaf picking, use 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 around the south of the Yangtze river.
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Character identification leaf leather sanctions, much shrinkage crimping, broken, after flattening is obovate-elliptic, veins prominent abaxially, apex acuminate to caudate, base cuneate, margin entire. Brittle. Gas micro, sweet.
Microscopic identification of Ye Huang section: the epidermal cells of the 1 column, outer cuticle. Under the surface of cell1, arranged, with non glandular hairs. Palisade tissue cell arranged loosely,4-6 column, some contain calcium oxalate crystals. The main vein vascular obviously, pericycle fibers are arranged; the parenchyma cells contain calcium oxalate crystals.
Powder characteristics: gray brown. ①epidermal cell polygon, thin wall, non glandular cell, often two base parts of a double horn, the diameter of 3-9μ m,22-50μ M. ②stomatal infinitive or inequalities, a diameter of about 26μ m,30-33μ M. The fiber diameter of 9-17μ m, wall thickening of lignified branch, pit more than obvious. Another visible threaded, reticulate vessel and palisade tissue, debris and brown lumps.
[ ] leaf chemical composition containing a variety of three terpene components, friedelin ketone ( friedelin ), friedelin -3β - ol ( friedelan-3 β-ol ),β- Sticky mycophenolate enolase (glutinol ),β - amyrin (β -amyrin ), taraxerol ( taraxerol ), Ishi Ka ( lithocarpolone ), Shi Ke glycol ( lithocarpdiol ),24- methylene cycloartane -3 β,21- glycol (24-methylenecycloartan-3 β,21-diol ), phlorizin ( phlorizin ), the phloridzin ( trilobain ),3- hydroxyl phlorizin (3-hydroxyphlorizin ), vertical Lycopodium flavone glycoside (trilobatin ),3- group (3-hydroxyphlorzin ), phloridzin vertical Lycopodium flavone glycoside ( cernuoxide ), Fu bean glucoside (afzelin ), Isoquercitrin ( Isoquercitrin ),2 ″ - ofp-coumaric acyl purple to British glycosides (2 ″ -p-coumarlylastragain ).
[ ] taste sweet; bitter; flat
[ ] functions of heat-clearing and detoxicating; phlegm; wind pressure. The main dysentery; lung heat cough; superficial infection; pruritus; hypertension
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,10-15g. External: amount, trace and apply; or washed fried.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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