Rhododendron

Source.
From the" compendium of Materia Medica".
[ ] Pinyin name Dù Juā n Hu.
[alias] red ambulate, ambulate, Yamashi hill, azalea, Rhododendron, chemical, return, Yama Ka, red mountain, clear and bright flowers, red wood Folium Rhododendri Panhua, with safflower, camellia, flowers, birds and insects primroses, azalea, Rhododendron simsii, next spring flowers, flowers, flowers Changchun
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Medicine medium source: Ericaceae azalea flower.
Latin animal mineral name: Rhododendron simsii Planch.[R Sweet var.simsii Maxim Indicum; R.indicum ( L. ) Sweet var.Ignescens Sweet]
Harvest and storage:4～ May blossom harvesting, drying.
[ ] 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 Yangtze River flow or with south each district, east to Taiwan, West to Sichuan, Yunnan.
[ ] cultivation
Biological characteristics of happy sunshine, but avoid sun exposure, adapted to acid soils, bogey with calcareous earth. In the cool and wet environment cultivation.
Cultivation techniques of mass production of usable sow reproduction. Temperature maintained at 15～ 20 ℃, humidity60%,2～ 3weeks after sowing to germination. Reserved for the seed can also be ramets propagation. In addition, cutting strip is also easy to survive.
[ ] the flower contains chemical composition of anthocyanin and flavonoid glycosides. Have been identified in anthocyanin compounds are cyanidin3- glycoside ( cyanidin3-glucoside ), cyanidin3- galactoside ( cyanidin3 galactpside ), cyanidin3- Alibo glycoside ( cyanidin-3- arabinoside ), cyanidin3,5- two glucoside ( Cyanidin3,5-diglucoside ), cyanidin3- galactoside -5- glucoside ( Cyanidin3galactoside-5-glucoside ); rockii tree peony3,5- two glucoside ( peonidin 3,5-diglucoside ) [1,2], and malvidin3,5- two glucoside ( malvidin3,5-diglucoside ) [1]. Flavone and flavonoid glycosides with rutin ( rutin ), (azalein ) [3] cuckoo yellow glycosides, quercetin ( quercetin ), ( azaleatin ) [4] azaleatin; kaempferol ( kaempferol ),5-3- galactoside (5 methyl ether 3Galacto side ),3- galactoside azaleatin ( Azaleatin3galactoside ) azaleatin rhamnoside,3- ( azaleatin3rhamnoside ), myricetin5- ether 3- rhamnoside ( Myricetin5methyl ether3rhamnoside ), myricetin5- ether 3- galactoside ( Myricetin5methyl ether3 - galactoside ), cotton of endothelin3- galactoside ( gossypetin3galactoside ) [1], quercetin 3- galactoside ( quercetin3, galacetoside ) quercetin 3- rhamnoside ( quercetin 3Rham noside ), quercetin glycoside3- Arabia (quercetin3 arabinoside) [1].
[ ] pharmacological effects of intraperitoneal injection of mouse azalea Decoction antitussive ( cough induced by ammonia water spray ), the ethyl acetate extract, chloroform extract and mother liquor, the separated crystal armour and crystalline B ( flavonoids ) also has antitussive effects of. Mouse Ig decoction has expectorant ( phenol red method). Guinea pig peritoneal injection without relieving Decoction ( antihistamine spray method ).
[ ] taste Gan; acid; flat
[ ] to the liver spleen and kidney;;
[ ] functions and blood; menstruation; cough; rheumatism; solution sore. The main hematemesis; pain; metrorrhagia; menstruation; cough; rheumatoid arthritis; furuncle sore carbuncle
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,9-15g. External: amount, trace and apply.
[ attach ]1cure leucorrhea party party (" Zhejiang folk medicinal herbs commonly used" ): Rhododendron, knuckle claws, with cook. 2refractory epistaxis Party (" Guizhou herbs" ): Rhododendron simsii Planch flowers, angelica, decoct with water.
[ ] the discussion
1" herbal" treat hematemesis: classification, metrorrhagia, to cold, and blood.
2" Guizhou folk prescription set": treating irregular menstruation, only red collapse; leaching liquor is taken orally, can cure rheumatism. Stop the pain.
3" Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicines cure": abdominal pain and diarrhea, bleeding hemorrhoids and endogenous cough.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]

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