Sheep Magpie

[ source ]" Sichuan" from Chinese medicinal herbs
Pinyin name ] [ Dì Yá n Què
[ English ] Herb of Birdsfoot Deervetch name, Herb of Birdsfoot Trefoil, Bird's Foot Trefoil, Bird's Foot Deervetch
[ alias ] dove nest, acid metres, rattan, grass, flowers have yellow grass, golden cauliflower cucumber.
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: Lotus corniculatus L. legume birdsfoot trefoil part on the ground.
Latin botanical name: Lotus corniculatus L. animal fossil
Harvest and storage: the summer harvest the part on the ground, fresh or dried.
[ ] the original morphology of Lotus japonicus perennial is herbaceous, tall 10-60cm. The bine is fascicular, sparsely villous or later glabrous. Leaflets5,3 leaflets in the top2lobular petiole, was born at base of petiole; petiolules very short, ca.1mm; leaf blade papery, ovate or obovate,5-20mm long,3-12mm wide, apex acute, base rounded wedge, entire, glabrous or sparsely hairy on both sides of the main vein. Flowers 3-4row into terminal umbel, leaflike involucre; flowers long 1-1.4cm; calyx yellowish green, bell-shaped to wide, membranous, both inside and outside hirsute, calyx teeth5, three SM shape; papilionaceous corolla, yellow flag, broadly obovate,9-13mm long,4-6mm wide, with longer claw, a slightly longer wing keel, keel bending; stamens 10, two; ovary sessile, style long and curved, stigma small. Pod long cylindrical, brown, long 2-2.7cm, width 3-4mm, containing many seeds. Florescence 5-7 month, month of fruit period 8-9.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in elevation of 2300-3400m fir mixed forest and alpine oak or grasslands on mountain slopes, moist place field.
Resource distribution: distribution in the southwest and Shaanxi, Gansu, Hubei, Hunan, Guangxi, Tibet and other places.
[ ] the chemical composition
The whole grass Hanshan naphthol -3,7- two rhamnoside ( kaempferi-trin ), violaxanthin ( violaxanthin ), lutein epoxide ( xanthophyllepoxide ), linamarin ( linamarin ).
Ye Han soyasapogenol ( soyasopogeol ) B ( allantoin ), allantoin, seed containing galactose ( galactose ).
[ ] taste sweet; bitter cold;
[ ] the lung meridian tropism;
[ ] functions of heat-clearing and detoxicating; cough and asthma; dampness xiaopi. The main wind-heat cough; sore throat; epigastric fullness of innominate toxic swelling pain;;; eczema; diarrhea; hemorrhoids blood in the stool
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,9-18g. External: amount, trace and apply.
[ ] the treatise" Sichuan herbs commonly used" : heat, cough, asthma, Xiaopi full. The whole grass treat wind-heat cough without phlegm, stomach fullness of pain, hemorrhoids, under milk steamed pork liver, chicken liver services; flowers, eye mist.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
http://chinese-herbal-medicines-directory.blogspot.com/