Vinegar willow fruit

Vinegar willow fruit

(commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Tibet)

[synonym] Elaeagnus angustifolia (plateau Chinese herbal medicine treatment manual), darbuxing (Tibetan name).

[source] it is the fruit of Hippophae rhamnoides (elaeagaceae).

[plant morphology] Hippophae rhamnoides, also known as Hippophae rhamnoides and Hippophae rhamnoides.

Deciduous shrub or tree, 5-10m high. Branches densely covered with brown rust scales when young. Leaves alternate, linear or linear lanceolate, 2-6 cm long, 0.4-1.2 cm wide, obtuse at both ends, densely covered with pale white scales below; petiole very short. The inflorescence axis of male flower often falls off, stamens are 4; female flower is more open than male flower, perianth is simple saccate, apex is 2-lobed. Fruit fleshy, perianth tube surrounded, nearly spherical, orange yellow, 0.5-1 cm in diameter. The flowering period is from March to April. The fruit period is from September to October.

Born in the river, sand environment. It is distributed in North China, Northwest China, Sichuan, Yunnan and Tibet.

[collection] the ripe fruits were picked from October to November and dried in the sun.

[chemical constituents] the fruit contains isorhamnetin, isorhamnetin-3 - β - D-glucoside, isorhamnetin-3 - β - rutinoside, quercetin and kaempferol. It contains more than 300 mg% vitamin C, 3-4 mg% carotene, 10-15 mg% vitamin E and B1_ 2-0.4 mg%, vitamin B2_ 4-0.5 mg%, folate 0.5-0.8 mg%. It contains malic acid and so on.

The oil content of dry seeds was 8%. The fatty acids in the oil were: saturated fatty acid 11.6% (palmitic acid, stearic acid), oleic acid 26.6%, linoleic acid 34.7%, linolenic acid 27.0%. The seed oil contained 2.1% non saponified substance, zeaxanthin, cryptoflavin, β - carotene, γ - carotene, lycopene, 0.78 sitosterol and vitamin E_ 212 mg%.

The bark contains alkaloids such as serotonin and carotene. The leaves contain vitamin C_ 8 mg%, carotene, isorhamnetin. The content of hemin in fresh root nodules was 0.03 mg / g, which was about 5 times higher than that in other parts of roots.

The plant also contains halol and Harman.

[nature and taste] common Chinese herbal medicine in Tibet: "warm in nature, sour and astringent in taste. "

[Guijing] Manual of plateau Chinese herbal medicine treatment: "into the liver, stomach, intestines and small intestines. "

[functions and indications] ① in the Tibetan Common Chinese herbal medicine, it can promote blood circulation, disperse blood stasis, remove phlegm, widen chest, invigorate spleen and stomach. Treatment of traumatic injury, blood stasis, cough, phlegm, dyspnea, dyspepsia. "

② "Plateau Chinese herbal medicine treatment manual": "Shengjin Zhike, Qingre Zhixie. It is used to treat high fever, Yin injury, bronchitis, enteritis and dysentery. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 3-5 yuan.