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南鶴虱 Nanheshi
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Chinese Name |
南鶴虱 |
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Chinese Pinyin |
Nanheshi |
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English Name |
Wild Carrot Fruit |
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Latin Pharmaceutical Name |
Carotae Fructus |
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Category |
Fruits and seeds |
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Origin |
The dried mature fruit of Daucus carota L.(Apiaceae). Harvest in autumn when the fruit is mature and cut the twig with fruits, sun-dry, remove the fruit by striking, and remove the foreign matter. |
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Production Regions |
Primarily produced in the Chinese provinces of Jiangsu, Henan, Hubei, Zhejiang. |
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Macroscopic Features |
Cremocarp, oval-shaped, often cracked into mericarps. Externally pale greenish-brown or brownish-yellow, apex has remnants of style base, base is blunt round, back side is raised, with 4 narrow wing-like ridges that each have one row of yellowish-white hooked burrs, the base of the second ridge has a faint main ridge, with scattered short soft hairs, jointed side is smooth, with 3 veins and soft hairs. Kernel is off-white, oily. Light weight; distinctively aromatic odor when crushed by hands, slightly acrid, bitter taste. |
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Quality Requirements |
Superior medicinal material has large fruit, brownish-yellow color, distinctively odor when crushed. |
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Properties |
Bitter, acrid, Neutral |
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Functions |
Kills worms, removes accumulation. Apply to roundworm, pinworm and teniasis, enterozoic abdominalgia, retarded growth in infants due to malnutrition. |
| Link |
 Medicinal Plant Images Database
Chinese Medicine Specimen Database
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Permanent URL：https://sys01.lib.hkbu.edu.hk/cmed/mmid/detail.php?pid=B00237 |
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