Pinyin name Ch Qi 's n Z

English name [ ] SEMEN PLANTAGINIS

 this product is a source car plant in front of Plantago asiatica L or Plantago depressa Willd Plantago seed is the dried ripe seed of. Summer, autumn two season during seed harvesting ear, dry, rub out the seeds, removing impurities.

[ character ] this product is oval, triangular irregular oblong or ovate-oblong, slightly flat, ca. 2mm, width of 1mm. Surface yellowish brown to dark brown, with fine wrinkles, a gray-white concave point. Hard. Gas, light.

( 1) the front differential deep yellow brown powder. Testa the outer skin cell section view square or slightly tangentially extending, cell wall myxoid stroma of. Subcutaneous epidermal cell surface view class rectangle, the diameter of 5 ~ 19 m, approximately to 83 u m, thin wall, microwave shape, often as a mosaic arrangement. Endosperm cell wall very thick, full of tiny aleurone grains.

Plantago seed within the epidermal cells are smaller, the diameter of 5 ~ 15 ~ m, 11 ~ 45 M.

( 2) take the goods 0. 1g 3ml, add water, shaking, placed 30 minutes, filtration, the filtrate is added with dilute hydrochloric acid 3ml, boil for 1 minutes, cool with sodium hydroxide solution, adjusting the pH to neutral, adding alkaline copper tartrate solution 1ml, arranged in water bath heating, generating red precipitate.

 salt processing Semen Plantaginis Semen Plantaginis: take the net, according to saline moxibustion ( Appendix II D ) fry up acoustic burst, spraying saline, frying.

The surface is dark brown or yellow brown. Micro gas smell, taste slightly salty. As the acid insoluble ash under the determination, not 3. 0%; according to the expansion degree under the determination, should not be less than 5. 0.

 taste sweet, slightly cold.

 to the liver, kidney, lung, intestine by.

[ function ] diuresis, dampness Tonglin, eyesight, expectorant. For edema, swelling and pain, hot, summer humidity alvine flux, swollen red eyes, phlegm heat cough.

[ usage] 9 ~ 15g, appropriate bag Decoction decoction.

 the storage ventilation drying, moisture.

[ note ] for hot and humid place, dribbling urination and pain of disease, often with Aristolochia manshuriensis Kom, talc and other compatible application. For edema, childhood negative signs, also has a significant effect, for clinical use, mainly for example; such as kidney edema, with cultivated land, cinnamon, aconite, equal in Achyranthes bidentata. Treatment of damp-heat diarrhea in love, light, can be single use, heavy with tuckahoe, Polyporus, Alisma, this equated with. For swollen red eyes or eyes to fail, such as liver inflammation caused by the swollen red eyes, and chrysanthemum, cassia seed, green box equivalent; such as liver and kidney deficiency caused by the eyes to fail, shed tears, and moreover, the dodder equated with. For lung heat cough more appropriate, and almond, Campanulaceae, Suzi, phlegm cough with.