Azalea root

[ ] from Zhejiang."" common folk herbal medicine.
[ ] Pinyin name Dù Juā n Hu āGē n
[ alias ] along the tiger, Tiger Hill, of azalea root
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: Ericaceae azalea root.
Latin animal mineral name: Rhododendron simsii Planch.[R Sweet var.simsii Maxim Indicum; R.indicum ( L. ) Sweet var.Ignescens Sweet]
Harvest and storage: the year may collect, clean, fresh or dried slices.
[ ] the original morphology of deciduous or semi-evergreen shrub, high 2-5m. Much branched, young branchlets densely reddish brown or brown flat strigose, old branches gray-yellow, glabrous, bark slit. Flower buds ovoid, the middle part of the back side is brown strigose, margin eyelash. Leaf spring type two; leaves papery, short, long, summer leaves leathery, ovate-elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, long 3-6cm, wide 2-3cm, apex acute, with a mucro, base cuneate, margin entire, surface sparsely is reddish brown strigose, abaxially densely brown strigose, veins more and more. Flowers 2-6, umbels, clustered branch end; pedicel ca.5-8mm; calyx 5deeply lobed, lobes ovate to lanceolate, long 3-7mm, outside densely Cao Fumao and eyelashes; corolla broadly funnelform, rose to pink, purple, long 3-5cm,5 lobed, lobes nearly obovate,1flap and above nearly2valve inside the crimson spots; stamens 10, filaments of dilute 7-9, part of small hair, anthers purple; ovary ovoid,5 room,5-8mm long, densely long flat hispid, style slightness. Capsule ovoid,1-1.2cm long, densely brown hispid, persistent calyx. Florescence 4-6 month, month of fruit period 7-9.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in hilly or flat, sparsely filled in.
Resource distribution: distribution in the south of the Yangtse River country, east to Taiwan, West to Sichuan, Yunnan.
[ character ] trait distinguishing root slender cylindrical, bending, branching. Unequal length, diameter of about1.5cm, root head enlargement, with most woody caudex. Surface gray-brown or reddish brown, smooth, with a network of fine wrinkles. The wood is hard, hard to break, section of light brown. Odorless, tasteless.
[ ] acid taste Gan; temperature;
[ ] functions and blood hemostasis; swelling and pain. The main abnormal menstruation; epistaxis hematemesis hematochezia metrorrhagia;;;; diarrhea; abdomen distending pain; rheumatoid arthritis; traumatic injury
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,15-30g; or leach liquor. External application: suitable, grinds end apply; or fresh root bark trace and apply.
[ ] the discussion
1 Wang Lianshi" herb": Li string rule book, can the rooter. Ethics, and the tiger ( Rhododendron root ), steaming clothes. 2" vegetation will side": treatment of red and white chronic dysentery, vaginal bleeding, intestinal wind blood, anal fistula, traumatic injury, raw muscle.
3" herbal" treat hematemesis: classification, metrorrhagia. To cold, and blood.
4" Guizhou folk prescription set": treating irregular menstruation, only red collapse; leaching liquor is taken orally, can cure rheumatism.
5" Jiangxi": blood, hemostasis herbal.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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