Earth Star

Pinyin name ] D ìB āJiǎ o
[ ] Herb of Bhotan Milkvetch English name
[ alias ] cone vetch, Eupatorium, cassia, drought to saponins, anise, wild ground pine, eel grass
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: for legume Astragalus herb of bhutan.
Latin plant animal name: Astragalus bhotanensis Baker[A.brachycephalus Franch] mineral
Harvest and storage: summer and autumn harvest, washed, chopped, dried.
[ ] the original morphology of Astragalus perennial herbs of bhutan. Stems erect or oblique, long 30-100cm, sparsely white pilose when young tee. Odd pinnate, alternate; leaflets 21-27, several sessile, leaf blade obovate or obovate-lanceolate, long 6-23mm, wide 4-10mm, apex slightly acuminate, base cuneate, margin entire, glabrous above, the following white tee pilose; calyx tubular, ca.10mm, calyx teeth lanceolate, sparsely brown thong pilose; corolla purple, ca.1.5cm. Upper petal central following tapering into claws, wing ca.13mm, keel ca.11mm; stamens 10, two, (9) + 1. The pod is cylindrical, erect, long 1.5-2.5cm, wide 5-7mm, both sides slightly flat, apex beaked, room 1. Seeds oblong, dark brown. Florescence in June, fruit period in October.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in road, hillside, grass.
Resource distribution: located in Shaanxi, Gansu, Guizhou, Yunnan, sichuan.
[ ] root chemical composition of selenium ( Se )0.007 μ g/g, zinc ( Zn )4.34 μ g/g,6.29μ g/g copper ( Cu ), manganese ( Mn )21.27 μ g/g,837μ g/g iron ( Fe ), molybdenum ( Mo )4 μ g/g,0.24μ g/g cobalt ( Co ), lead ( Pb )6.5 μ g/g,0.07μ g/g interval ( Cd ).
[ ] the bitter taste; cool
[ ] liver kidney meridian;
[ ] functions of heat-clearing and detoxifying, diuretic antidiarrheal. The sore throat, cough, measles, edema, diarrhea, dysentery, toothache, nose bleeding
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,10-15g.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]


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