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Astragalus membranaceus from wikipedia content: astragalus astragalus membranaceus, also named yellow over sixty years of age, for plants and Chinese herbal medicine collectively. Plants produced in Inner Mongolia, shanxi, gansu province, heilongjiang, etc, for national level 3 protection plant. For Chinese herb astragalus legume Mongolian astragalus, film of astragalus root pods, have the gas-solid table, the water's poison row back is swollen, sepsis, born the effect such as muscle.
Overview of astragalus astragalus about 2000 kinds, in addition to the Oceania, the world subtropical and temperate zones are to produce, but mainly grown in the north temperate zone. In China, more than 270 kinds of distributed in northeast to southwest.
Medicinal plants for Astragalus bean plant Mongolia Astragalus membranaceus Astragalus (Fisch.) Bge. Var. Mongholicus (Bge.) Hsiao or film pod Astragalus a. membranaceus (Fisch.) Bge. Beginning contained in cold-induced febride.
Ancient writing yellow over sixty years of age, LiShiZhen in compendium of materia medica explained in for: "jain, long also. Yellow over sixty years of age, the color yellow tonic for long, reason name." , meaning "old" refers to the sedate and prestigious old man, astragalus membranaceus tonic for the long, and consequently called it "the astragalus". The medicinal use of astragalus history to 21 century to have more than 2000 years, the application of the earliest record of the han unearthed in miu as "fifty-two disease party", cold-induced febride as top.
Morphological characteristics
Membrane pod astragalus
Chinese BuKui Qi, mouth Qi alias, perennial herbs, 0.5 ~ 1.5 meters high. The root straight and long, cylindrical, with a little wooden, 20 to 50 cm long, root head 1.5 ~ 3 cm in diameter, show that pale tan to dark brown. Vertical stem, with branches, pilose. Singular pinnate ternate alternate, petiole base have lanceolate, leaves, leaf shaft is hair; Lobular 13 ~ 31 piece, ovate-lanceolate or elliptic, 0.8 ~ 3 cm long, apex slightly dull, have short acuminate, base cuneate, margin entire, the two sides have been white pilose, no small petiole. Summer out of fragrant, always having a leaf is a bit long; Calyx 5-lobed, tubular; Wing corolla light yellow, 1.6 cm long, flag disc triangle shape obovate, wing disc and keel disc are handle shape long claws. Pods membranous, inflation, ovate-oblong, more than 2 cm, apex have beaks, black short pubescent. Seed 5 ~ 6 grain, renal form, brown.