Nail head fruit

[source] only contained in the "compendium of Materia Medica" Xinhua [name] D N and T u Gu I [name] fruit of Fruitcose Gomphocarpus English [source] Medicine based sources: Asclepiadaceae plants fruit on the part of the nail head. Latin plant animal mineral name: Gomphocarpus fruticosus (L) R.Brown[Asclepias fruticosa] Harvesting and storage: the summer and autumn harvest, cut into sections, use fresh or dried [original] shrub form. All strains of milk; stems are small hair. Leaves opposite or whorled leaves full of vigor and vitality; strip, 6-10cm long, 5-8mm wide, apex acuminate, base attenuate surface into petiole, glabrous, leaf margin revolute; lateral veins not obvious, cyme arising from the top branch axil long 4-6cm, 3-7 having a flower; calyx deeply 5 - lobed, lobes lanceolate, outer surface puberulent, inside basally with glands; corolla 5 - parted reflexed, be ciliate; vice corolla red, cucullate; anthers with film first carbonyl; pollinia 1 per locule, pendulous; ovary consists of 2 free carpels, stigma apex five horn, meat quality. Follicles swelling, round or oval shape, the length of 5-6cm, diameter 3cm, apex acuminate to beak, exocarp soft puncture, puncture for 1cm. Seeds ovoid, apex with approximately 3cm long white silky wool. Fl. summer autumn, fr.. [] habitat distribution in North China and to the southern culture, originating in the mediterranean. [taste] Gan Ping; [] the spleen and stomach meridian tropism; [indications] the spleen and stomach; tonifying lung. The main vomiting in children; diarrhea; do not think of appetite coughing tuberculosis; [usage]: 5-15 grams of oral decoction. The discussion of "Xinhua materia medica [] program:" whole plant: treatment of pediatric gastroenterology. [excerpts] "Chinese Materia Medica" http://chinese-herbal-medicines-directory.blogspot.hk/