Top Quality Pericarpium Zanthoxyli

Pericarpium Zanthoxyli

   Shrubs or small trees, Ca. 3-6 m tall. Stem branches sparsely with slightly upward-sloping prickles, base laterally compressed; shoots pubescent. Leaves Alternate; odd-pinnate, 8-14 cm long, leaf axis with narrow wings, leaflets usually 5-9, opposite, a few sessile, leaf blade ovate; Elliptic to broadly ovate, 2-5 cm long, 1.5-3 cm wide, apex acute; usually slightly Concave, base unequally Cuneate, margin obtusely serrate, interdentate glandular punctate, below villous tufted at base of MIDRIB. CORYMBOSE panicles, terminal or terminal on lateral branches: Flowers unisexual, dioecious, rachis pubescent; tepals 4-8, triangular-lanceolate: Male flowers with Stamens 5-7, anthers oblong, connectives subapical glandular, filaments linear, degenerated carpels 2, apex 2-furcate; Female Flower carpels usually 3-4, ovary dorsally crest with prominent glandular spots, style slightly curved, stigma capitate, ovary sessile. Mature carpels usually 2 ~ 3. Fruit red to purple-red, densely verrucous protuberant glandular spots. Seed 1, black, lustrous. FLORESCENCE 3 ~ 5 months. FRUIT PERIOD 7 ~ 10 months.

     Wild in roadside, hillside thickets, or for cultivation. It is distributed in most areas of our country. Main Production Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Henan and other places. They are also produced in Heilongjiang, Sichuan, Hubei, Qinghai, Hunan and Guangxi.

     Ventral dehiscent or abaxially also slightly dehiscent, is two-petaloid, shape is like cut skin ball, and base is connected, diameter 4 ~ 5 millimeter; surface is red purple to red-brown, rough, tip has stigma vestige, base often has small fruit handle and 1 ~ 2 immature carpels, the fruit is granular, occasionally 2 ~ 3 small something fruit and born in the tip of the fruit stalk. The surface of the exocarp is extremely shrunken, with many verrucous oil glands 0.5-1 mm in diameter. The endocarp is smooth and yellowish, often separated from the base of the EXOCARP and rolled inward. Remnants of black seeds are sometimes visible. Fruit Leather, with a special strong aroma, taste spicy and lasting. Bright red, bright, thin skin, uniform, no impurities is preferred.

    Function indications:

    Warm in the cold, dehumidification, pain, killing insects, anti-fishy toxin. Treatment of accumulated food and drink, cold pain in heart and abdomen, vomiting, er, cough gas adverse, wind and cold and dampness, diarrhea, dysentery, colic, toothache, ascariasis, pinworm disease, vaginal itching, scabies.

    Pharmacological Action:

1. Effects on the digestive system

2. Effect on experimental thrombosis and coagulation system

3. Analgesic effect

4. Bacteriostasis

        5. Deworming action