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Aristolochia contorta Bge.
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English Name |
Northern Dutchmanspipe, |
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Latin name |
Aristolochia contorta Bge. |
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Family & Genus |
Aristolochiaceae, Aristolochia |
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Description |
Herbaceous liane. Roots slender, cylindrical, diameter 3-8mm, yellow-brown. Stem herbaceous, green, up to 1m long or longer. Leaves papery, alternate; petioles delicate, filamentous, ca. 2-7cm long; leaves triangular-cordate or ovate-cordate, 3-13cm long, 3-10cm wide, apex obtuse or acute, base cordate, margin entire, leaves surface green, back pale green, base out 5-7 veins, relatively prominent. Flowers solitary or 3-10 flowers cluster at axil, dark purple-green, trumpet-shaped, 3-4cm long, base pearl-like bulging, middle part contractive, upper gradually expanded to lateral plate to one side; lateral plate ovate-lanceolate, top acuminate; stamens 6, adnate to succulent style, nearly no filaments; stigma 6, inferior ovary. Capsules wide obovoid or elliptic-obovoid, 3-6.5cm long, diameter 2.5-3cm, apex round and slightly concave, green when young, yellow-green when mature, crack into 6 along external, crack into 5-6 filamentous on fruits stalks, fruits pedicels droopy, cracked with fruits. Seeds flat, triangular-cordate, with small warts, margin with white membranous wide-wings. Flowering: May to July. Fruiting: August to October. |
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Distribution |
Growing in mountainous forest edges, riversides, roadsides and thickets on mountain slopes. Can be cultivated. Distributed in Jilin, Heilongjiang, Liaoning, Hebei, Henan, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Shandong and etc. The medicinal materials are mainly produced in Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Hebei and etc. |
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Part Used |
Medical part: fruits and aboveground parts. Chinese name: fruit: Madouling. Aboveground parts: Tianxianteng. |
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Harvest & Processing |
Fruit: collected in autumn when fruits turn from green to yellow, and dried. Aboveground parts: collected in autumn; removed foreign matters and sun-dried. |
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Chemistry |
Contains water-soluble quaternary amine alkaloids, such as aristolochic acid, etc. |
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Pharmacology |
Expectorant, antitussive, anti-bacteria. |
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Properties & Actions |
Fruits: bitter, little cold. Ground part: bitter, warm.Fruit: clearing lung-fire, alleviating qi, removing phlegm, checking cough, clearing intestine and removing haemorrhoid. Upground parts: activating qi-flow, removing damp, activating blood circulation and arresting pain. |
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Indications & Usage |
Fruits: Used for dyspnea and cough due to lung-heat, bloody sputum, hemorrhage due to intestinal heat and hemorrhoids and pain due to swelling. Aerial parts: Used for gastralgia, hernia pain, gestational edema, postpartum abdominal pain due to blood and qi disorder, rheumatic pain.Fruit: oral administration: decocting, 6-10g; or made as pills or powders. External: appropriate amount, decocted for fumigating. Bitter and cold, stomach-poiling; not use in case of deficiency-cold, asthma and insufficiency of spleen and diarrhea. Use with care in case of stomach deficiency. Over dose for internal use may cause vomiting. Aboveground part: oral administration: decocting, 4.5-9g; or powdered. External: prepared decoction for washing or triturated for application. Use with care in case of physical weakness. |
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Examples |
Fruit:
Infantile pulmonasthenia, coarse breath, rapid respiration: medicinal glue 45g (stir-baking with bran), fructus arctii (parched fragrant), ural licorice (stir-fried) 7.5g each, dutchmanspipe 15g (baked), apricot seed 7 (removing peel and apex), glutinous rice 30g (parched). Grind the above drugs into powder, take 3 or 6g each time, decoct in a cup of water, decoct to 60%, and warm up and drink after meals.
Aerial part:
Mastitis: fresh dutchmanspipe vine of an appropriate amount. Massage soft and apply the outside, change once a day. |
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 Chinese Medicinal Material Images Database
Phytochemical Image Database
Chinese Medicine Specimen Database
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