Asarum Chinese Asarum

Chinese Name: Asarum Chinese Asarum

[category]: whole grass

Siebold Wildginger herb

[alias]: big medicine, white asarum, horseshoe incense.

[source] the whole plant of Asarum sieboldii Miq.

[harvesting]: in summer, the whole grass is harvested and dried in the shade.

[nature and taste]: Tongbei Asarum.

[plant morphology]: perennial herb, about 30 cm high. The rhizome is long, transverse, with many slender roots and short internodes. Leaves 1-2, reniform heart-shaped, 7-14cm long, 6-11cm wide, apex acute to long acute, base deep heart-shaped, margin rough bristles, both sides sparsely pubescent; petiole 10-15cm long. Flowers solitary in leaf axils. Perianth tube thick, tube oblate ball, tip 3-lobed, lobes flat; stamen 12, filament longer than anther; ovary inferior, style 6. Capsule fleshy, subglobose. The flowering period is from April to May.

[growing place]: it grows in the valley, stream side, hillside and under the forest. It is distributed in Shaanxi, Shandong, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hubei and Hunan.

[chemical composition]: it contains volatile oil. The main components of the oil are methyl eugenol, camphor, 1-asamin, 1-sasemin, carvone, borneol, 1,8-cineole, a - and β - pinene, trans asarone.

[function indications]: Tongbei Asarum.