Top Quality Magnoliae Officmalis Cortex

Magnolia Bark is purple-brown, young branches light yellow, with silk hairs. Leaves Alternate, crowded; Leaf Blade elliptic-obovate, leathery, apex obtuse or Mucronate, base cuneate, entire or slightly undulate, abaxially gray-white velutinous when young, white-powdery when old. Flowers and leaves open at the same time, single shoot apex, Pedicel Short, hairy; tepals 9-12, White, aromatic; stamens and pistils numerous, spirally arranged on elongated receptacle. Aggregate Fruit Long ovate-elliptic, woody. Seeds Often 1 per locule. FLORESCENCE IS 4 ~ 5 months, FRUIT IS 9 ~ 10 months. Originally produced in Hubei, is now more cultivation. PICK IN 4 ~ 6 months, root and branch skin dry directly; dry skin in boiling water, pile up damp place, "sweating" , until the inner surface becomes purple Brown or Brown, steam soft take out, roll into a cylinder, dry. Medicinal properties for dry skin roll-like or double roll-like, Xi said "Tongpu" ; near the root of the dry skin at one end, such as flared mouth, Xi said "simple boots. The outer surface gray-brown or gray-brown, rough, sometimes scale-like, easy to peel off, there are obvious oval lenticels and vertical wrinkles, scraping off rough skin is yellow-brown. Inner surface purple-brown or dark purple-brown, more smooth, with a fine vertical lines, scratches to show the oil. Hard, not easy to break, cross-section graininess, outer layer gray-brown, inner layer purple-brown or Brown, oily, some visible most small bright star. Fragrant, spicy, slightly bitter. Root Bark Root Park some bending like a chicken intestine, Xi said "Chicken Intestine Park. ". Branchlets are simple tube-shaped, Brittle, easy to break, fibrous cross-section.

Sexual Taste Channel: sexual temperature, taste bitter, acrid. The spleen channel, stomach channel, lung channel and large intestine channel.

Efficacy and function: Dryness, dampness, eliminating phlegm, lower Qi and removing fullness. Dampness-resolving herbs of genus. Pharmacological Research: it has muscle relaxation effect, small dose excites intestinal smooth muscle, and large dose has inhibitory effect, anti-ulcer effect, significant central inhibition, blood pressure, anti-pathogenic microorganisms, anti-tumor; There are anti-platelet and inhibition of intracellular calcium flow, and so on.