Palm seed

Palm seed

(notes on materia medica)

[synonym] baizongzi (Pharmacology) and zongshuguo (Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the mature fruit of palm. See "palm skin" for plant morphology.

[collection] before and after frost fall, the peel should be harvested and dried when it is green and black.

The dried fruit is kidney shaped, 7-9 mm long and 5-7 mm short in diameter. The surface is dark grayish brown or grayish yellow, with reticular wrinkles, sometimes peeling, and the interior is smooth. Short stipes or round stipe scars can be seen in the kidney shaped depression. It's hard. After peeling off the pericarp and seed coat, two thick brown endosperm could be seen. There is no breath, and the taste is light.

[chemical constituents] the seed shell contains anthocyanins.

Bitter and smooth.

① Jiayou materia medica: "it's flat and nontoxic. "

② "Materia medica Menghong" says: "it tastes bitter and astringent, has a flat Qi and is non-toxic. "

③ Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine: "bitter, astringent, warm. "

[function and indications] materia medica notes: "astringent intestines, diarrhea, intestinal wind, collapse, take down, nourish blood. "

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

[selected formula] to treat hypertension, dream and spermatorrhea: palm fruit is two to one or two yuan. Take it in water. (Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine)