Withered world

Withered world

(collection of herbs in Lingnan)

[synonym] nanmu root (Nanning medicinal records) and Changan root (Guangxi Medicinal Plant List).

[source] it is the root, root bark or bark, leaf and seed of Cinnamomum camphora.

[plant morphology] pangaoshu, also known as pangaomujiang, houpinan, xiangjiaomu, shanjiaomu, qingtongjiao, yeguomu, niuerfeng, shanjialong, pangguo and sankuhua.

Small evergreen trees or arbors, 3-15 meters high, with mucilaginous endodermis, soft branches, petioles, under leaves and inflorescences. The leaves are leathery or papery, obovate, obovate, oblong or elliptic lanceolate, 6.5-20 cm long and 5 cm wide, apex obtuse or rounded, base cuneate, obtuse or suborbicular, glabrous above or slightly pubescent near midrib, green below, pilose or subglabrous, 8-12 lateral veins on each side, petiole 1-2.6 cm long. Flowers unisexual, dioecious; umbels in leaf axils near apex, solitary or several on common peduncle; common peduncle 2-4 cm long, pedicel about 1 cm long; involucral bracts 4, many flowers in each bract; perianth incomplete or absent; stamens 9 or more, pedicel densely covered with yellow hairs. Fruit globose, ca. 7 mm in diam. The flowering period is from May to June. The fruit period is from June to July.

It grows in the mountains, forests and shrubs. Distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Yunnan and other places.

[collection] all year round.

[pharmacological action] the volatile oil from fruits has a specific effect on the central nervous system, similar to chlorpromazine. Intraperitoneal injection of its emulsifier 0.15-0.3 g / kg can enhance the sleep time of pentobarbital in rats, but it has no adrenaline blocking effect. It can partly antagonize the hyperactivity and temperature rise caused by mescalin. The other characteristic is that it has synergistic effect with d-amphetamine, which can significantly enhance the effect of d-amphetamine on raising body temperature and cause death of animals. The toxicity of volatile koji itself is low, and the rats can tolerate 0.6 g / kg.

Bitter, cold.

① "Bitter, cold. "

② Guangzhou army's Manual of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine: "sweet, bitter, astringent, cool. "

[function indications] for dysentery, enteritis, rheumatism, bone pain, mumps, mastitis, sores and furuncle.

① "Lingnan medicine collection record" says: "to treat the vicious big sores, peel off the root skin, mash and apply it. "

② "Nanning medicine annals": "skin and leaf: extract poison and generate muscle, tamp and apply sore; root: take orally to treat chronic dysentery. "

③ "Guangxi medicine plant directory": "root: treatment of rheumatism, bone pain, infantile malnutrition. Root skin: bone breaking, detumescence and pain relief. Seed: malaria. "

④ "Clearing dampness and heat, detumescence and toxin" in the Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine of Guangzhou Army. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: root: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang. External use: skin and leaf fried, washed or tamped.

[selection] ① for enteritis, diarrhea, traumatic injury, mumps, carbuncle and sore: five to one or two yuan for the treatment of haggard root. Take it in water. (Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine of Guangzhou Army)

② Treatment of sores and boils, mastitis at the beginning: gurgling haggard bark, leaves tamped on the affected area. (Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine of Guangzhou Army)