Pecan

Pecan

(list of traditional Chinese medicine resources in Zhejiang)

[synonym] mountain crab (Chinese tree taxonomy), mountain core (Zhejiang Tianmu yam flora).

[source] it is the root bark, exocarp and kernel of Carya cathayensis.

Carya cathayensis

Deciduous, arbor, up to 30 m high, solid pith. Leaflets 5-7, opposite, lanceolate or obovate lanceolate, 10-18 cm long and 2.5-5 cm wide, apex acuminate, base cuneate, margin serrate, with orange yellow scalelike trichomes below; petioles very short or few, flowers unisexual, monoecious, male catkins 3 in a bunch, axillary, 10-15 cm long; flowers with 1 bract and 2 bracts The female inflorescence is spicate, erect, inflorescence axis densely glandular, with 2-5 flowers; the female inflorescence has 4-lobed perianth, and ovary is attached. The fruit is drupe shaped, the nucleus is obovate or elliptic ovate, and the exocarp is densely covered with scaly glands. At maturity, 4 valves are dehiscent, 2-2.5 cm in length. The flowering period is from March to April. The fruiting period is September.

It grows in the forest or valley at the foot of a mountain. It is distributed in Zhejiang, Anhui, Hunan and Guizhou.

[functions and indications] Zhejiang Tianmu yam plant records: "seed kernel: moisten and nourish; stir fry slightly; sprinkle yellow to cure lumbago. Fresh root skin Decoction immersion, treatment of foot hemorrhoids (toe seam wet itching). The skin tinea was treated by rubbing juice from fresh exocarp. "