500g, Chao Xiao Hui Xianɡ, FRUCTUS FOENICULI, Tcm Herbal

"Chinese Pharmacopoeia": fennel

Name of medicine: fennel

Pinyin: Xiǎo Huí Xiānɡ

English name: FRUCTUS FOENICULI

Source This product is dried and ripened fruit of Foeniculum vulgare Mill. The roots, leaves and whole plants are also medicinal. Fall fruit harvest at the beginning of the plant, dried, lay the fruit, remove impurities. Whole grass and leaves summer and autumn can be taken, the root seasons recoverable, wash away the soil, dried.

Traits This product is double hanging fruit, was cylindrical, and some slightly curved, long 4 ~ 8mm, diameter 1.5 ~ 2.5mm. Surface yellowish green or light yellow, slightly pointed at both ends, the top left with yellow-brown protrusions of the column base, the base sometimes small fruit stems. Fruit is long oval, the back side of the vertical 5, the joint surface is flat and wide. Cross-section slightly pentagonal, the back of the four sides about equal length. Have a specific aroma, taste slightly sweet, Xin.

Identification:
(1) This product is a cross section: the outer skin is a flat cell, outside the stratum corneum. There are vascular bundles in the longitudinal edge of the pericarp, and there are a large number of wooded reticulate cells around them. There are 1 large oval brown tubing on the back side of the ridge, and 2 in the joint. Endocarp is a column of flat parenchyma cells, cells of different lengths. The seed coat is long and brown. Endosperm cells polygonal, with the majority of paste powder, each paste powder contains small calcium oxalate cluster.

(2) take this product powder 2g, add ether 20ml, ultrasonic treatment for 10 minutes, filtration, the filtrate evaporated, the residue of chloroform 1ml to dissolve, as the test solution. Another anisaldehyde reference substance, add ethanol made 1μl per 1ml of the solution, as the reference solution. According to thin layer chromatography (Appendix Ⅵ B) test, learn the test solution 5μl, the reference solution 1μl, respectively, point to the same sodium carboxymethyl cellulose as a binder on the silica gel G plate to petroleum ether ( 60 ~ 90 ℃) - ethyl acetate (17: 2.5) as the agent, to 8cm, remove, dry, sprayed with dinitrobenzene hydrazine test solution. For the test product chromatography, chromatography with the reference substance in the corresponding position, was the same orange red spots.

Determination of the content of volatile oil (Appendix Ⅹ D) determination.

This product contains less than 1.5% volatile oil (ml / g).

Processing fennel: remove impurities.

Salt fennel: take the net fennel, according to salt water Sunburn method (Appendix Ⅱ D) fry until yellowish.

Sexual spicy, warm.

Meridian: to the liver, kidney, spleen, stomach.

Indications: cold and cold pain, qi and stomach. For cold hernia abdominal pain, testicular bias, dysmenorrhea, low abdominal Leng Tong, abdominal distension pain, eat less vomiting and diarrhea, testicular hydrocele. Salt fennel warm kidney cold and pain. For cold hernia abdominal pain, testicular bias, the cold abdominal pain.

Dosage: 3 ~ 6g.

Storage: cool and dry place.

Excerpt: "Chinese Pharmacopoeia"

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