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狼毒 Langdu
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Chinese Name |
狼毒 |
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Chinese Pinyin |
Langdu |
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English Name |
Fischer Euphorbia Root |
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Latin Pharmaceutical Name |
Euphoriae Ebracteolata Radix |
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Category |
Roots and rhizomes |
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Origin |
The dried root of Stellera chamaejasme L.( Thymelaeaceae) |
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Production Regions |
Primarily produced in Hebei, Inner Mongolia, and the northwest and northeast of China. |
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Macroscopic Features |
Enlarged fusiform or conical to long cylindrical shape, slightly wrinkled, 7~30cm long, 2~7cm wide; root head has remnants of aerial stem base; externally brown, with longitudinal wrinkles and horizontal thin-long lenticels, sometimes has remnants of thin roots. After the cortex falls off, white soft fibers can be seen. Light in mass, pliable texture, not easily broken, fractured surface has yellowish-white xylem and white cortex, fibrous. faint odor; slightly sweet taste, slightly bitter and spicy. |
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Quality Requirements |
Superior medicinal material is thick, pliable. |
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Properties |
Bitter, acrid; neutral; toxic. |
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Functions |
Drains water, expels fluids, breaks accumulation, kills worms. Apply to edema and abdominal swelling, phlegm combined with dyspepsia and parasitic malnutrition, abdominal mass, cardiac and abdominal pain, tuberculosis, scab and lichen. |
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 Medicinal Plant Images Database
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Permanent URL：https://sys01.lib.hkbu.edu.hk/cmed/mmid/detail.php?pid=B00079 |
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