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Dalbergia odorifera T. C. Chen
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English Name |
Scented Rose-wood, Fragrant Rosewood |
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Latin name |
Dalbergia odorifera T. C. Chen |
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Family & Genus |
Fabaceae, Dalbergia |
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Description |
Trees, 10-15m tall. In addition to young parts, inflorescence and ovary slightly pubescent, the rest glabrous. Bark brown or light brown, with longitudinal grooves, rough; branchlets with pale, dense lenticels. Odd-pinnate compound leaves, 12-25cm long; petioles 1.5-3cm long; leaflets 9-13, rarely 7 pieces, nearly coriaceous, oval or elliptic, 4-7cm long, 2-3.5cm wide, apex acute or acuminate, blunt end, base round or cuneate; small petioles 3-5mm long; stipules caducous. Panicles axillary, along with total peduncle 8-10cm long, branches corymb-shaped; basal bracteoles nearly triangular, about 0.5mm long, epicalyx-shaped bracteoles broad ovate, about 1mm long; flowers small, so numerous, about 5mm long; pedicels about 1mm long; calyx campanulate, about 2mm long, lobed teeth 5, one tooth longer below, lanceolate, the rest broad ovate, acute; corolla light yellow or milk white, each lobe nearly isometric, with 1mm long petioles, vexils nearly inverted heart-shaped, apex emarginate, petals oblong, keels half-moon shaped, each lobe with claws; stamens 9, monomer; ovary narrowly elliptic, with long stalks, style short. Pods ligulate long elliptic, 4.5-8cm long, base slightly hairy, carpels leathery, with net veins, seed 1, rarely 2. Flowering: March to April, fruiting: October to November. |
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Distribution |
Growing in mountain forests. Distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Hainan Island and etc. The medicinal materials are produced in Guangdong, Hainan Island, Guangxi, Yunnan and etc. |
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Part Used |
Medical part: trunk and dried duramen of roots. Chinese name: Jiangxiang. |
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Harvest & Processing |
Collected throughout the year, removed sapwood and dried in shade. |
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Chemistry |
Mainly contains volatile oil and flavonoids. |
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Pharmacology |
Platelet-aggregation-inhibiting, hypertension-reducing, anti-convulsion, sedative and antalgic. |
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Properties & Actions |
pungent, warm.Activating qi-flow, activating blood, arresting blood and relieving pain. |
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Indications & Usage |
Traumatic hemorrhage, pain in the gastric cavity and abdomen, liver-depressed hypochondrium pain, prickly pain due to thoracic obstruction, injuries from falls.Oral administration: decocting (later added in), 9-15g. External application: appropriate amount, powdered and applied on affected part. Not use in case of yin asthenia causing fire, blood heat bleeding. |
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Examples |
1. Treat traumatic fracture, injuries of liver and lung: Chinese redbud peel, Scented rose-wood, malaytea scurfpea, wumingyi (burn to red, extract in liquor for 7 times), teasel, amber (grind separately), two-toothed achyranthes (immerse in liquorfor one night), peach seed (remove peel apex), angelica (wash, bake), water cattail 1 liang each, rhubarb (roast after wrapped in damp paper), puxiao (grind separately) 1.5 liang each. Grind the above drugs into fine powder. Take 2 qian each time, decoct with sappan caesalpinia and angelica, and swallow with liquor before meals.
2. Treat knife wound or traumatic injuries, incessant hemorrhage: Scented rose-wood powder, Chinese gall power, copper powder (copper cut from copper mirror, grind to fine powder in a mortar) in equal amounts, or choose drug amounts randomly. Mix the above drugs and evenly apply onto the affected lesions.
3. Treat evil superficial infection: rosewood heart wood powder, boswellin in equal amounts. Prepare pills and fumigate, and dissipate evil qi. |
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