Wildginger

This product is plants of Aristolochiaceae Du Asarum forbesii Maxim. roots. (British) Forbes Wildginger Rhiaome Alias: Saruma henryi, south of asarum, Ma xin. Plant morphology: perennial. Gen lower stem having most white fibrous roots, aroma. Ye Kuan heart to reniform cordate, length, width of 3 ~ 8cm, two slightly hairy, margin densely pilose on veins and quilt; petiole is long 7 ~ 15cm. Flowers solitary in axils of leaves; perianth tube campanulate, apex 3 - lobed, outside the pale brown purple, yellow significantly into reticulate, inner surface of purple, netlike ridges; stamens 12; ovary inferior, style 6. Capsule fleshy. Florescence 3 to in April, fruit period from 5 to June. Hill slopes, forest next. In Jiangsu, Zhejiang. Sampling: 4 ~ October harvest, washed and dried. Traits: the roots was not planning a thin cylindrical, ca. 2cm, diameter of 1 ~ 2cm, pale brown to gray brown, with a link, the top residual dried leaf, lower clusters of numerous fibrous roots. The root length of 7cm, diameter of 1 ~ 2mm, the surface of gray white to pale brown, longitudinally rugose; qualitative hard, broken face white. Aromatic, spicy. Chemical composition: containing volatile oil, including Huang Zhangmi (safrole), clove - phenol (Eugenol) etc.. Taste: warm, spicy; a small drug. Net of medicine of www.PharmNet.com.cn finishing Indications function: expelling wind and cold, pain. For wind cold headache, rheumatic arthralgia, phlegm cough, his tongue sores, earache. http://chinese-herbal-medicines-directory.blogspot.com/