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Category: plant

Ageratum, scientific name: Agastache rugosa (he. Et Mey.) o. Ktze.; Aka: fragrant, pale to accuse, fennel, etc., is a tubiform floret, labiatae perennial herbs, erect stems, 0.5 ~ 1.5 m high, four prismatic, thick 7 ~ 8 mm, lobes ovate to oblong-elliptic heart shape lanceolate, corolla lavender blue, 8 mm long, mature small ovoid nut oblong, ca. 1.8 mm long, ca. 1.1 mm wide, 6 ~ 9 month flowering, fruiting 9 ~ 11 months.

Plant forms

Perennial herbs. Stems erect, 0.5-1.5 meters high, four prismatic, rough up to 7-8 mm, upper part is very short hair, glabrous, lower in the upper branch to education. Heart-shaped ovate to oblong-elliptic leaves lanceolate, 4.5-11 cm long, 3-6.5 cm wide, upward gradually small, apex long caudate acuminate, base cordate, thin section shape, margin with coarse teeth, paper, olive green, nearly glabrous, slightly below, was slightly pilose and dot glands; Petiole 1.5 3.5 cm long. Round umbrella inflorescence spent more, on the main stem or lateral branch of intensive cylindrical spike, spike 2.5-12 cm long, 1.8 2.5 cm in diam.; Inflorescence basal bract of no more than 5 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, wrap around needle line, long acuminate, bracts similar shape, small, 2 to 3 mm long; Round umbrella inflorescence with short, total stems ca. 3 mm long, be gland slightly pilose.

Calyx tubular inverted conical, ca. 6 mm long, ca. 2 mm wide, by micro glandular pilose and small yellow glandular, how many dyed pale purple or purple-red, throat slightly oblique, calyx teeth triangular, lanceolate, 3 teeth after about 2.2 mm long, 2 teeth before a bit shorter. Corolla lavender blue, ca. 8 mm long, slightly pilose on outside, crown cylinder base is about 1.2 mm wide, slightly more than calyx, upward gradually wide, 3 mm to the throat width, crown canopy two lip, upper lip straight, apex rounded emarginated, lower lip crack, 3 lobes is wider, ca. 2 mm long, 3.5 mm wide, flat, the edge wave, wide at base, lateral lobes semicircular. Stamens corolla, filaments thin, flat, glabrous. Style and stamens nearly isometric, filiform, apex equal to 2. His thick ring. Ovary lobes at the top of the villi. Mature small ovoid nut oblong, about 1.8 mm long, wide 1.1 mm, the front edge, apex with short bristles, brown. Flowering six to nine months, fruiting 9 to 11 months.

【 composition 】

Patchouli contains about 1.5% of volatile oil, the oil in the main component for wide grandiflorum, delicious, accounts for about 57% ~ 52. Other ingredients with benzaldehyde, clove oil, phenol, cinnamic aldehyde patchouli azulene alcohol, patchouli pyridine, table guaiac pyridine; And a variety of other half terpene, such as caryophyllene, beta elemi ene, don't orange ene, gamma patchouli ene, beta GuYun ene, alpha guaiac wood material, valentine ene, alpha GuYun ene, gamma - mountain spicy tree fruit ene, the delta - guaiac wood material, alpha patchouli ene, dihydrogen calamus ene, etc.

Ageratum containing volatile oil 0.28%, main ingredients for methyl chavicol, accounting for more than 80%. And containing anisole, anise aldehyde, d - limonene, as well as to the - methoxy cinnamic aldehyde, alpha pinene, beta pinene, symplectic ketone - 3, octanol - 3, spend on - a cyme, 1 - octene - alcohol - 3, linalool, l - caryophyllene, beta elemi ene, beta humulus scandens ene, alpha cananga ene, beta - farnesene, gamma - mountain spicy tree fruit ene, dihydrogen calamus ene, etc. Acorus ageratum dry materials in our country, the whole grass containing volatile oil by 0.54%, and contains trace tannins and bitter.

【 function attending 】

Fast, and the monarch indecent, clearing damp. A cold wet heat, fever, headache, chest often new frowsty, vomiting, diarrhea, malaria, dysentery, bad breath.

(1) "don't record", "cure poison is swollen, feng shui to fully cure cholera, heartache."

(2) the figure by "compendium" : "cure spleen and stomach vomit inverse, for the most of the medicine."

(3) "the pearl capsule", "wei qi, benefit stomach gas, food, and put to vomit inverse cholera."

(4) the soup liquid material medica: "fast gas temperature. Lung empty cold, the upper energizer indicates hot, drinking bad breath, decoct soup wash."

5. "Ben", "cold dampness, heat dampness, muggy and hot and humid. Exogenous cold evil, internal injury diet, or eating cold wet hysteresis, pocked with miasma, not fu soil, fever for malaria and other disease."

6 "new materia medica", "nourish the evil, lishi in addition to the wind, heat, thirst. Vomiting cholera, malaria, dysentery, boils the itch. Terrier: can treat throat bi, phlegm, stop cough."