Quinquefolia L.

Pinyin name ] [ Dì Jì Ji n Xià n
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Medicine medium source: Amaranthaceae plants flower amaranth entire grass.
Latin botanical name: Gomphrena celosioides Mart. animal fossil
Harvest and storage: spring, summer harvest between all the grass, clean, fresh or dried with.
[ ] her original form upright or herbs, about 35m high. The stems are adnate white villous. Leaves opposite; petiole short or absent; leaf blade elliptic to subspatulate,3-5cm long,1-1.5m wide, apex acute or obtuse, base attenuate, abaxially densely or sparsely pilose. Inflorescence of health, silver white, initial spherical, with oblong, ca.2m above; sessile; bracts broadly triangular, bracteoles white ridges; very narrowly; sepals outside is white villous, flower after lateral2crisp leathery, medial thinly leathery; staminal tube apex5 crack, with a gap; style very short, post 2 crack. Utricles pyriform, pericarp membranous. Fruit period2-6 month.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in the meadow.
Resource distribution: located in Taiwan, Hainan and Paracel Islands.
[ ] the chemical composition of grass in all areas including saponins ( saponin ), steroidal compounds ( steroid ), amino acids ( amino acid ) and non reducing sugar. Leaves, inflorescence and stem containing phenols and flavonoids. Stems contain anthocyanin ( Betacyanin ) in sugar beet. Flower containing reducing sugar. The root contains ketose.
[ ] this product the pharmacological effects of wort extract on rat autonomic nervous system stimulant, root extracts have antibacterial action.
[ ] taste Gan; cool
[ ] functions of clearing heat and removing dampness. The main dysentery
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,30-60g.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]

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