Sapium sebiferum, the name of traditional Chinese medicine. It is the root bark, bark or leaf of Chinese tallow. Sapium of Euphorbiaceae. Sapium sebiferum is a plant, which is distributed in all provinces and regions south of the Yellow River in China, and reaches Shaanxi and Gansu in the north. Has diuretic, repercussive, detoxicating and insecticidal effects. Indications: schistosomiasis, ascites due to liver cirrhosis, dysuria and snake bite; Topical treatment of furuncle, corns, mastitis, traumatic injury, eczema and dermatitis.
Medicinal material shape
The root bark is long groove-shaped or tubular, and the root bark is long rolled or slightly curled. The outer bark is gray, light brown or light brown, rough, with fine longitudinal wrinkles, some with round or horizontal lenticels, and the cork is thin and easy to fall off. The inner surface is yellowish white to yellowish brown with fine vertical texture. Hard and tough, not easy to break, fibrous section. Slight qi, bitter and astringent. It's better to have a big, thick skin and bitter taste.
Leaves are broken or withered. The complete leaves are oval and rhombic, 3-8 cm long. The top is long and tapering, the base is wide and wedge-shaped, and the whole edge. The surface is dark green or dark brown. The petiole is long and there are two small glands at the top. Leaves are as fragile as paper. Slight breath and bitter taste.
Piecewise character
Root bark is irregular and flaky. The outer surface is yellowish brown with fine longitudinal wrinkles, and the cork is thin and easy to peel off; The inner surface is yellowish white or light yellowish brown with fine vertical texture; This part is fibrous. Hard and tough. Slight breath, slightly bitter and astringent taste.
morphological character
Plant Sapium sebiferum, alias Sapium sebiferum (newly revised Materia Medica), Yajiu (Compendium of Materia Medica), Mu Zi Tree (textual research on plant names), Brown Bai Shu Tree, Juanzi Tree, Red Heart Lang (Yunnan Medicinal Plants List), Wood Wax Tree, Tung Tree (Illustration of Chinese Higher Plants), Qiongshu, Wax Tree, Rainbow, Pure Blood Tree and Sabina vulgaris.
It is a tree with a height of15m, hairless parts and milky white juice. Bark is dark gray with longitudinal cracks; Branches are widely distributed and have lenticels. Leaves alternate, papery, rhombic, rhombic-ovoid or rare rhombic-obovate, 3-8 cm long and 3-9 cm wide, with sharp tip and broad wedge-shaped or obtuse base, entire.
The midvein is slightly convex on both sides, and the lateral veins are 6- 10 pairs, slender, inclined and curved, and the distance from the edge is 2-5 mm, and the reticulation is obvious; Petiole is slender, 2.5-6 cm long, with 2 glands at the top; Stipules are blunt at the top, about 65438 0 mm long. Flowers are unisexual, monoecious, aggregated into terminal racemes, 6- 12 cm long.
Female flowers are usually born in the lowest part of inflorescence axis or rarely in the lower part of female flowers, and a few male flowers are born. Male peanuts are located in the upper part of inflorescence axis, and sometimes the whole inflorescence is male. Male flower: the pedicel is slender, long 1-3 mm, and gradually thickens upward; Bracts are broadly ovoid, about 2 mm long and wide, slightly pointed at the top, and each bract has 10- 15 flowers with different sizes.