Sweet potato root

[ source ] from the" party" sweet potato roots and then can make the medicine liquor, wine sauce thickening, used as a desiccant medicine promoting qi and activating blood. (choose the following a" Chongqing herbs" )
Pinyin name ] [ Dì Guā Gē n
[ source ]
Source: medicinal plants of the family Moraceae Ficus microcarpa root.
Latin botanical name: Ficus tikoua Bur. animal fossil
Harvest and storage: summer, fall between the digging of whole plant, removing the part on the ground, with clean, fresh or dried.
[ ] the original morphology of perennial deciduous creeping shrubs. The whole plant has milk. Stem cylindrical or slightly flat, Tan, ramose much, an inflated, a student of elongated adventitious root. Leaves alternate; petiole1-2cm; leaf blade and papery, ovate or obovate elliptic, long 1.6-8cm, wide l-4cm, first Swiss blunt, base nearly rounded or shallowly cordate, margin sparsely shallowly undulate serrate, green above, be short bristles, the rough, light green, along the vein is short; most three arteries and veins, lateral veins 3-4 pairs. Syconium, paired or clustered on leafless short branch, common sense in the soil, globose or ovoid,1-2cm diameter, light red when mature; basal bracts 3; male flowers and gall flowers in the same inflorescence support, tepals 2-6, stamens 1-3( -6); female flowers in a sequence of other support. As a result of achenes. Florescence 4-6 month, month of fruit period 6-9.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in low mountain woodlands, slopes, or the desert edge in the grass.
Resource distribution: distribution in the southwest and Shaanxi, Hubei, Hunan, Guangxi, Tibet and other places.
[ character ] trait identification of root class cylindrical, about 7mm in diameter, surface dark purplish brown, with irregular longitudinal wrinkles. Hard, section of skin dark purple, wood. Gas micro, mild.
[ ] taste bitter astringent; cool;
[ ] the spleen kidney meridian;
[ ] functions of clearing heat and removing dampness; swelling and pain. The main diarrhea; diarrhea; Huang swollen; rheumatoid arthritis; emission; with; scrofula; hemorrhoids; toothache; traumatic injury
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,30-60g.
[ ] the discussion
1South Yunnan Materia Medica ":" for seminal emission, emission.
2" vegetation will side": water : heat, swelling, pass the milk. Treatment of jaundice, monthly closing, leucorrhoea, toothache, injuries.
3" herbal" : cure scrofulous classification of itch, purging disorder, leucorrhea. Milk, tonic.
4" Chongqing herbal medicine": treating damp-heat dysentery, yellow swelling, hemorrhoids.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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