Side of traditional Chinese medicine (26) moisture swelling palm root

Palm medicine name 】 【 root

Pinyin [Z] not n ɡ L legal G ē n

"Alias" palm tree root

【 origin 】 medicinal material base source: the root of palm of palm trees.

Latin animal plant mineral name: Trachycarpusfortunei (Hook.) h.w. endl.

Harvesting and storage: throughout the year all can recover, dig the root, wash, cut with fresh or dried.

【 】 the original form of palm, evergreen trees, up to 10 m. Stems cylindric, coarse stands, not branched, ca. 20 cm, residual brown fibrous layers of old leaf sheath bag was in stem, fall off after a circular section. Leaves tufted with stem tip, and expand outward; Petiole hard, about 1 m long, a transverse nearly triangular, margin with small teeth, base took great pains with brown fibrous leaf sheath, new petiole erect, old petioles often pendulous; Nearly round fan blade, 60-100 cm in diameter, with the majority of buckling, palmate divided to middle, lobes 30 to 50, each 2 lobes apex shallow crack, the green, the wax mask powder, leathery. Spadix, drawn from stem top leaf axil, base with most of the large sheath bracts, pale yellow, with soft hairs. Dioecious; Male flowers small, most, pale yellow, perianth 6, 2 rounds, wide oval, stamens 6, filaments short, separation; Male flowers and female flowers, ovary superior, densely white villous, styles 3. Drupe globose or nearly kidney-shaped, about 1 cm in diameter, when mature epicarp bice, wax powder. Flowering 4-5 months, fruiting: oct.-dec.

Ecological environment habitat division 】 【 : cultivation in the village, the crook, tanabe, hill or mountain.

Many resources distribution: south of the Yangtze river around the distribution.

Underground part contain chemical composition 】 【 yam saponins (dioscin), and methyl former palm saponins B (methyl proto - ph).

[pharmacological action] palm root injection has the effect of inhibition of fertility, palm root alcohol extraction liquid crude drugs (2 g/ml), with acupuncture point injection, female mice every only 0.5 ml, 2 times a day, a total of 3 times. The results in mice after acupuncture point injection medicine 2-6 months pregnant, average delayed by six pregnant period (normal mice pregnancy period in terms of around 20 d); Mice developed normally after birth. Palm root decoction (2 g/ml) intraperitoneal injection in addition to the 0.2 ml dose group mice survived, 0.3 ml and 0.5 ml and shimen acupuncture point injection of 0.5 ml, have caused death arrector, convulsions, etc. And palm root alcohol extraction liquid injection of 0.5 ml, no toxic reaction.

【 sex flavor 】 bitter taste; Astringent; Sex is cool

Results hemostasis function attending 】 【; Shibuya intestinal check flow field; Desiccant; Keep the swelling down. Detoxification. The main vomiting blood; Bloody; Ren; Taken down. Diarrhea; Drench turbidity; Edema; Joint pain; Scrofula. Lingers. Swelling pain

【 usage and dosage 】 oral: decoct soup, 15-30 g. External use: right amount, Fried washed; Or apply.

[from] the Chinese material medica