Sandalwood root

Sandalwood root

(notes on materia medica)

[source] it is the root bark of Dalbergia odorifera.

[plant morphology] sandalwood, also known as sandalwood, water sandalwood (materia medica), hope water sandalwood (Qunfang spectrum).

Trees, 7-20m high. Bark dark gray, rough and flaky; branchlets green gray, smooth, glabrous, with lenticels. Leaflets 7-13, total petioles cylindric, smooth and glabrous; leaflets obovate, about 4 cm long, about 2 cm wide, apex slightly concave, base round, surface dark green, glossy, back with blue-green, reticulate veins, both sides smooth and glabrous, with short petioles. Flowers yellow, very small, terminal or axillary panicles; calyx campanulate, 5-lobed, covered with silky gray pubescence; corolla butterfly shaped, petal round, apex slightly missing; stamens 10, lower part united into one, upper part of filament separated; ovary smooth glabrous, with short stalk, ovules 3, style very short, stigma capitate. Pods banded flat, apex apical, 8 cm long, more than 1 cm wide, smooth glabrous, containing 1-3 kidney shaped seeds. The flowering period is July. The fruit period is from August to September.

It grows on hillside, stream side and woodland beside gully. It is distributed in Jiangxi, Henan, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, Shandong, Sichuan and other places.

[nature and taste] 1. In the collection of materia medica: "there is little poison. "

② "Compendium": "Xin, Ping, have small poison. "

Functions and indications: materia medica notes: "it can control scabies and kill insects. "

(usage and dosage, external use: Yanmo Tiao Fu.

Chinese PinYin : Tan Gen