Leaves of Neosinocalamus affinis

Leaves of Neosinocalamus affinis

(Cao Mu Bian Fang)

[source] it is the leaf of the gramineous plant Neosinocalamus affinis or the rolled but not released tender leaf (Neosinocalamus affinis leaf).

[plant morphology] Neosinocalamus affinis (detailed record of bamboo spectrum), also known as: Zimu bamboo (Ren? Shuyiji), Yizhu, Xiaozhu (detailed record of bamboo spectrum), Tianci, jiumiti, yuyuyuci, congzhu.

The stem is erect, 5-10 m high, the top is slender, curved or drooping, the basal internodes are 15-30 cm long and 3-6 cm in diameter, with small grayish white or grayish brown hairs attached, especially the upper internodes, with obvious sheath ring. Sheath leathery, 20-25 cm long, with dense brown black bristles on the back except the triangle covered on one side of the base; sheath tongue and rachis as long as more than 10 mm; sheath leaf about 10 cm long, 4-5 cm wide, apex acuminate, base slightly round, with dense white bristles on the top and sparse bristles on the middle below. Each node has more than 20 branches, and the last branch has more than 10 leaves. Leaf sheath 4-8 cm long; ligule truncated or erosive, brown or black; leaf thin, 10-30 cm long, 1-3 cm wide, apex acuminate, base round or cuneate, glabrous on top, hairy on bottom, 5-10 pairs of secondary veins, margin serrate; petiole 2-3 mm long, flower branches in bundles, drooping; spikelets 2-4 in 1 node, each with 4-5 flowers; glumes 2-several; lemma They are broadly ovate, with cilia on the margin, cilia on the back of palea, 3-4 scales, 6 stamens, 2-3 pinnate stigmas. Caryopsis fusiform, 7.5 mm long, upper part hairy, abdomen broadly furrowed, pericarp yellowish brown. The shoot period is from June to September or from December to next March. The flowering period is from April to July.

Born of flat or low hills. It is distributed in Sichuan, Guizhou, Hunan, Hubei and Shaanxi.

The rhizome (root of Neosinocalamus affinis), seedling (shoot of Neosinocalamus affinis), diseased young seedling (aerial shoot of Neosinocalamus affinis), sheath (sheath of Neosinocalamus affinis), culm skin (Ru of Neosinocalamus affinis) and flower (flower of Neosinocalamus affinis) of this plant are also used for medicine. See special regulations for details.

[collection] all year round. Take off tender leaves, dry or fresh.

[medicinal materials] the dried leaves are lanceolate, 10-30 cm long, 1-3 cm wide, apex acuminate, base round or cuneate, margin coarse, often small serrate, thin, dark green on the upper surface, gray green on the lower surface, hairy, 5-10 pairs of secondary veins, no small transverse veins; petiole about 2-3 mm long, sometimes with twigs.

Produced in Sichuan, Guizhou and other places.

[nature and taste] Sichuan records of traditional Chinese medicine: "sweet and bitter in taste, cool in nature, non-toxic. "

[function and indications] ① Caomu Bianfang: "Ye: it is used to treat heat and urine. "

② "Ye: clearing heart heat, treating dizziness. "

③ "Chongqing herbal medicine": "Ye Xin: drink tea instead of tea, relieve vexation and heat, stop vexation and thirst, and is effective for gastrointestinal dryness, heat diarrhea, distension, yellow pain in urination, etc. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 2-3 yuan.

[selected formula] to treat the initial turbid disease: the heart of Neosinocalamus affinis is is pounded with velvet and simmered with wine. (Chongqing herbal medicine)