CHINESE FOOD

Origin
Common Fennel Fruit is the ripe fruit of Foeniculum vulgare Mill.The plant is collected in autumn when fruit nearly ripe and dried in the sun,then the drug is tapped off or removed from foreign matter.

Description and Identification
Cremocarp, sylindrical, some slightly curved,4 ~ 8mm long, 1.5 ~ 2.5mm in diameter. Externally yellowish-green or pale yellow,tapering slightly towards hoth ends,apex bearing remains of yellowish-brown projecting stylopodium, sometimes having a small fruit stalk at the base. Mericarp elongated-ellipitical, with each dorsal surface bearing five ribs and commissural surface flattened and broad. Transversely cut surface showing a pentagonal outling,the four sides of dorsal surface nearly equal in length. Odour, characteristically aromatic; taste, slightly sweet and pungent.

Chemical ingredients
Anisole, a -fenchone methylchavicol, anisaldehyde, etc.

Property and Channel Tropism
Property: acrid in taste; warm in nature. Channel tropism: liver, kidney, spleen, stomach.

Action and Indications
To dispel cold and relieve pain,to regulate the stomach funcion.
Scrotal hernia with pain and cold extremities; dysmenorrhea with lower abdominal pain and cold sensation; distending pain in the epigastrium with anorexia, vomiting and diarrhea; hydrocele of tunica vaginalis.

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Origin
Clove is the dried flower of Eugenia caryophllata Thunb. The drug is collected when it turns from green to brick-red, and dried in the sun.

Description and Identification
Pestle-shaped, 1 ~ 2cm long. Corolla globular,0.3 ~ 0.5cm in diameter, petals 4,imbricated, dark brown to brownish—yellow,enclosing stamens and style. After rubbing,showing numerous yellow, granular anthers. Calyx tube cylindrical,slightly flattened,sometimes slightly curved,0.7 ~ 1.4cm long,0.3 ~ 0.6cm in diameter,reddish-brown or dark brown,sepals 4,triangular,occurring at the upper part, separating in cruciform. Texture hard,oily. Odour,strongly aromatic; taste,pungent and numb.

Chemical ingredients
It has naphtha which is clove oil.In the oil,there are mostly eugenol,acetyleugenol, (3 -caryophyllene, Eugenone, Eugenin, etc.

Property and Channel Tropism
Property : pungent in taste .warm in nature. Channel tropism: splleen,stomach,kidney.

Action and Indications
To warm the spleen and stomach, to regulate the adverse flow of the stomach qi,and to restore the kidney yang.
vomiting,hiccup,poor apptite and diarrhea due to stomach cold; impotence,prospermia and soreness of waist due to kidney Yang deficiency.

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Origin

Sword bean is dried ripe seed of Canavalia gladiate( Jacg. ) DC. The fruit is collected in autumn when ripe, and the drug is gathered, and dried in the sun.

Description and Identification

Flattened-ovoid or flattened-reniform,2 ~ 3.5cm long, 1 ~ 2cm wide,0.5 ~ 1.2cm thick. The outer surface pale red to reddish-purple, slightly shrunken, somewhat lustrus. The edge with a black wyebrow-shaped hilum,about 2cm long,exhibiting 3 white fine striations. Texture hard,uneasily broken. Testa coriaceous, the inner surface brownish-green, lustrous; cotyledons 2, yellowish-white oily. Odourless; weak in taste, bean-like on chewing.

Chemical Ingredients

It has canavaline,etc.

Property and Channel Tropism

Property: sweet in taste, warm in nature.
Channel tropism: stomach, kidney.

Action and Indictions

To warm the stomach and check its upward adverse movement. Hiccup and vomiting of deficiency-cold type.

Place of Production

Guangdong, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Sichuan, shaanxi, etc.

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Origin
Cassia Bark is the dried stem bark of Cinnamomum cassia Presl. The drug is frequently collected in autumn,and dried in the shade.

Description and Identification
Channelled or quilled,30 ~ 40cm long,3 ~ 10cm wide or in diameter,0.2 ~ 0.8cm thick. Outer surface greyesh-brown,slightly rough,with irregular fine wrinkles and transverse raised lenticels, some showing greyish-white streaks; inner surface reddish-brown, somewhat even, with fine longitudinal striations and exhibiting oily trace on scratching. Texture hard and fragile, easily broken, fracture uneven,outer layer brown and relatively rough, inner layer reddish-brown and oily and shwing a yellowish brown line between two layers. Odour,strongly aromatic; taste,sweet and pungent.

Chemical Ingredients
It mostly has naphtha,which has cinnamic aldehyde,cinnamyl acetate,eugenol,cinnamic acid, cinnzeylanol, cinnzeylanine.

Property and Channel Tropism
Property: acrid and sweet in tast, extremely hot in nature. Channel tropistn: the kidney, spleen, heart and the liver.

Action and Indications
To supplement body fire,reinforce yang,and lead the fire back to the kidney,to dispel cold and relieve pain,and to activate blood circulation and stimulate menstrual discharge.

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Origin
Prichlyash Peel is the dried pericarp of ripe fruit of Zanthoxylum schinifolium Sieb. et Zucc.or Zanthoxylum bungeanum Maxim. The drug is collected in autumn when ripe,dried in the sun,removed off the seeds and foreign matter.

Description and Identification
Pericarpium Zanthoxyli Schinifolii: Mostly 2-3 small follicles,apocarpous at the upper part, grouped on a fruit stalk; follicles spherical,spliting along the evetral suture,3 – 4mm in diameter. Outer surface greyish-green or dark green,scattered with numberous oil sots and dine reticulated, raised wrinkles; inner surface almost white, smooth. Endocarp commonly separated from exocarp at the base. Remains of seed ovoid,3 ~4mm long,2 – 3mm in diameter,externally black,lustrous. Odour, aromatic; taste, slightly sweet and pungent.

Pericarpium Zanthoxyli Bungeani: Most follicles singly,4 – 5mm in diameter,outer surface pru-plish-red or brownish-red, scattered with numberous warty oil dots, translucent when observed against the light; inner surface yellowish, odour, strongly aromatic; taste, lastingly pungent and numb.

Chemical
4% ~ 7% essential oil.

Property and Channel Tropism
Property: acrid in taste, warm in nature Channel tropism: spleen, stomach, kidney.

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