Litsea

[source] out of "Nanning City Drug Zhi". [name] D ò u Ch Ji ì Ji ā N and [Root of Mountain] English name Spicy Tree, Mountain Spicy Tree, Fragant Litse, Aromatic Litsea [alias] wood pulp and root, cubeba root, wood Jiang Zigen, mountain incense, Schisandra propinqua, Litsea cubeba root [source] Medicine source: for the Lauraceae pheasant pepper root. Latin plant animal mineral name: Litsea cubeba (Lour.) Pers.[Laurus cubeba Lour.] Harvesting and storage: Cultivation of 3-5 years, 9-10 months of digging, shake the earth, dried. The original form of [] pheasant pepper deciduous shrub or small tree, up to 10m. Leaf and fruit aroma. Root conic, gray white; tree bark yellow green, smooth, tree bark grayish brown. Young branchlets slender, scaly buds without sericeous. Leaves alternate; petiole membranous, thin, long 1-2cm; leaf blade lanceolate or long elliptic, long 4-11cm, wide 1.2-2.5cm, apex acuminate, base cuneate, margin entire, dark green above, paler green below, both surfaces glabrous, pinnately veined, lateral veins 6-10 on each side, slender, midvein, lateral veins at both sides. Take the first leaves open, dioecious; umbels solitary or fascicled, peduncle slender, long 5-10mm, involucral bracts 4, with 4-6 flowers, pale yellow; perianth lobes 6, obovoid; fertile stamens 9, in 3 whorls, the third round of basal glands shortly stipitate. Stamens numerous, degradation in the female ovary ovate, style is short, stigma capitate. Berrylike drupe is close globose, diameter 4-5mm, glabrous, green when young, black when mature; fruit stalk is long 2-4mm. Florescence 2-4 month, month of fruit period 6-8. [distribution] Ecological environment: in sunny slopes, hills, forest shrub or sparse woods. Distribution: distribution of resources in the southwest, Southern China and Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Tibet etc.. [character] character roots conic. Surface brown, wrinkled and granular protrusions. Light bulbs, easily broken, section gray brown, transverse section with small holes (duct). Aromatic, spicy taste. [composition] root bark of volatile oil of 0.2%, including about 10% (citral) of citral, citronellal (citronellal) about 8%-12%, and linalool (linalool) and its esters. Recently from the root of volatile part share isopulegol (isopulegol). Root also contains daucosterol (daucosterol), pheasant pepper alcohol (cubebaol). Bark containing alkaloids have been isolated, the right six barge alkali (laurotetanine), N- methyl six barge alkali (N-methyl laurotetanine), isocorydine (isocorydine), Mulan tubocurarine (magnocurarine). Near and from the wood part pheasant pepper loquat Ming base (litebamine). [pharmacological effects] anti thrombosis and microcirculation of rabbit intravenous pheasant pepper root (Litsea) injection of 2g/kg, could significantly inhibit thrombosis, the inhibition rate was 57.56%. Clinical treatment of cerebral thrombosis patients, can make cerebral resistance figure appeared high amplitude, rise time, rise angle increases, vascular resistance index. Electron microscopic observation of Nailfold Microcirculation in patients with pipe loop, increase in the number of capillaries, blood flow, improve blood flow velocity, blood vessel ansa becomes uniform, round type and tree type platelet percentage increase in venous blood, and the enlargement and accumulation were significantly reduced, indicating that the drug can dilate blood vessels, increase cerebral blood flow (18%-80%), improve circulation, and can reduce the platelet surface activity, high aggregation of platelet depolymerization. [taste] Xin; temperature; bitter [] liver spleen meridian; meridian; [indications] Qufeng desiccant; Qi and relieve pain. The main cold; heart stomach cold pain; abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea; edema, beriberi; pregnant women; rheumatoid arthritis; traumatic injury; cerebral thrombosis [usage]: oral decoction, 15-30g, fresh 15-60g; or stew served; or sparkling wine. External use: the amount of water, decocting. [the paper] 1 "herbal" cure all classification: Ajuga pain, published, bulk cold rash, to expansion, qi. 2 "Nanning City Drug Zhi": the gas pain, rheumatism, and bones. Cure stomach cold pain, edema of pregnant women, traumatic wide band. 3 "history of Chinese medicine in Guangxi:" to cure a cold. 4 "Guangdong traditional Chinese medicine": Qufeng, information treatment, swelling. Treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, bones and muscles, postpartum feet soft, phlegm wet beriberi. [] excerpts from "Chinese Materia Medica" "dictionary of Chinese medicine" http://chinese-herbal-medicines-directory.blogspot.hk/