To peach

[ ] from Shaanxi." Chinese herbal medicine" immortal peach stem ( leaf ), root: efficacy similar to fruit. ( following a taste of Shaanxi" Chinese herbal medicine" )
Pinyin name ] [ Dì Xiā n Tá o
[ English ] Fruit of Zollinger Gromwell name, Fruit of Corn Gromwell
[ alias ] bone peach grass, ma non
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: Boraginaceae Lithospermum zollingeri or large shikonin fruit.
Latin botanical mineral name: Lithospermum zollingeri D animal C.[Buglos-soides zollingeri ( DC. ) Jlhnst.]
Harvest and storage:7-9 month when fruit is ripe harvest, dried.
[ ] the original form of creeping perennial herb. Root number, coarse alignment, dark brown jacket. Cauline radical ministry Changping lying prostrate stems up to 30cm;,, new from old branches axillary long, erect, the strain is spreading hispid. Basal leaves are short petiole; leaf blade oblanceolate or spatulate, long 3-6cm, wide 8-18cm, cauline leaves nearly get in by every opening handle, oblanceolate, apex acute or obtuse, base the Ministry is narrow, entire, both surfaces white strigose, following more frequent. Flowers solitary in upper leaf axils shoots, or several flowers forming sparse inflorescence; bracts leaflike, lanceolate; calyx is long6.5mm,5 crack, crack linear-lanceolate, covered with bristles . Corolla blue, light blue, purple or white, long 1.5-2CM,5 crack, fissure syndrome obovate, nearly as large, outside slightly wool, larynx5to Jane longitudinal pleats extending, a keeled convex, opposite corolla lobes; stamens 5, included, inserted on corolla Jane below middle; ovary4 crack greatly, style 1, linear, erect, stigmas capitate. Nutlets 4, obliquely ovoid, milky white, smooth, long 2.5-3mm, ventral midline recessed into the longitudinal groove, wrapped in persistent calyx of. Florescence 4-5 month, month of fruit period 6-8.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in hilly, forest the roadside grass.
Resource distribution: distribution in North China, central and Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Taiwan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Tibet and other places.
[ character ] trait identification of fruit or obliquely ovoid, long 3-3.5mm, ventral midline recessed into a longitudinal groove. Surface milky white, smooth and moist. Qualitative hard, broken visible seed, seed coat and the healing, dark brown, grey and white to slightly yellow seeds. Rich oil.
[ ] the chemical composition
1great shikonin entire grass-containing rutin0.25a0.44% or 0.59%, but also containing TRIACONTANE ( n Triacontane ),26alkanols (Cerylalcohol ) ( Palmiticacid ), palmitic acid, myristic acid, lauric acid ( Myristicacid ) ( Lauricacid ) ( Oleicacid ), oleic acid, linoleic acid, linolenic acid ( Linoleicacid ) ( Linolenicacid ) and other fatty acids, as well as sitosterol ( Sitosterol ) ( Fumaricacid ), fumaric acid, caffeic acid ( Caffeicacid ), glucose, rhamnose and so on.
2share of fumaric acid, glucose and so on.
[ taste ] Xin Gan; temperature
[ ] to the stomach by
[ indications ] temperature and cold-dispelling pain swelling; swelling and pain. The main Ming Wan cold painful distension; pan spit out sour water swelling and pain from injuries; fracture;
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,3-6g; or at the end of the inquiry. External: amount, trace and apply.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]


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