Fennel fruit

Fennel fruit

(selected Chinese herbal medicines from Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and Qinghai)

[synonym] fennel (Qinghai commonly used Chinese herbal medicine manual), balbada, wariwada (Tibetan name).

[source] it is the whole plant of Illicium tuberosum.

[plant morphology] fennel

Annual plants, 30-60 cm high, with white powder. The root is straight and cylindrical. Basal leaves numerous, 6-20 cm long, with slightly long petiole; leaf blade outline rectangular round, 2 pinnately divided; 1 lobe 3-6 pairs, with short petiole or sessile, ovate outline; 2 pinnately cleft, lobules lanceolate or narrowly obovate, 0.3-1.6 mm wide. Inflorescence with few or many branches; sepals 2, narrowly ovate; petals 4, lavender or white, outer 2 larger, broadly obovate, entire, inner 2 smaller, 3-lobed, central lobe boat shaped; stamens 4, opposite petals, base with glands; ovary 1-locular. Capsule strip-shaped, divided into 10 nodes between each 2 seeds at maturity.

It grows on sandy soil and grassland. Distributed in Tibet, Sichuan, Gansu, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Hebei and other places.

[collection] harvest from June to August, wash, cut off and dry.

[chemical constituents] the alkaloid content of the whole herb is about 0.38%. Among them, 85% protoopioid alkaloids, 0.1% sanguinarine, 7.8% amorphous non phenolic alkaloids and 2.7% amorphous phenolic alkaloids were isolated.

[nature and taste] common Chinese herbal medicine in Tibet: "cold in nature, bitter in taste. "

[functions and indications] ① common Chinese herbal medicine in Tibet: "antipyretic, analgesic, anti-inflammatory and detoxification. Treatment of cold, headache, limb joint pain, cholecystitis, and solution of food poisoning. "

② "Selected Chinese herbal medicine of Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and Qinghai": for treating influenza, sore throat and red eyes. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 1-2 yuan; or grind powder.

[prescription selection] ① treatment of wind heat, cold and pharyngitis: three coins of anise, four coins of forsythia, three coins of Arctium lappa, half coins of mint, half coins of licorice, fried in water. (manual of common Chinese herbal medicine in Qinghai)

② Treatment of acute conjunctivitis: anise three money, chrysanthemum three money, water decoction or tea drink. (manual of common Chinese herbal medicine in Qinghai)