Introduction of He Shi:Common Carpesium Fruit or Fructus Carpesii.
✵The article gives records of the herb Common Carpesium Fruit, its English name, Latin name, property and flavor, its botanical source one plant species, ①.Carpesium abrotanoides L., with a detailed introduction to the botanical features of this plant species, the growth characteristics, and ecological environment of this plant species, the features of the herb Common Carpesium Fruit, its pharmacological actions, medicinal efficacy, and administration guide.
Fructus Carpesii(Common Carpesium Fruit).
Pin Yin Name: Hè Shī.
English Name: Common Carpesium Fruit.
Latin Name: Fructus Carpesii.
Property and flavor: neutral in nature, tastes bitter, pungent, slight toxic.
Brief introduction: The Herb Fructus Carpesii is the dried ripe fruit of Carpesium abrotanoides L., used as an anthelmintic for the treatment of ascariasis, enterobiasis, and taeniasis. The herb is commonly known as Fructus Carpesii, Common Carpesium Fruit, Hè Shī. Literally "Hè Shī" means lice on cranes.
Botanical source: Herbal classic book defined the herb Fructus Carpesii (Common Carpesium Fruit) as the dried ripe fruit of the plant species Carpesium abrotanoides L. It is a plant of the Carpesium L Genus, the Asteraceae family (Compositae, aster, daisy family) of the Campanulales order. This commonly used species is introduced:
Carpesium abrotanoides L.
Botanical description: The plant, Carpesium abrotanoides L is commonly known as Tiān Míng Jīng (means bright-essence of the heaven). The whole herb is also used as herb medicine and is known as Tiān Míng Jīng, it is different from Hè Shī (the dried ripe fruit). A perennial herb, the plant grows up to 50~100 cm tall; the stem is upright, the upper part is many-branched and densely pubescent, and the lower part is glabrate; leaves are alternate; leaf blades on the lower part are broadly elliptic or oblong, 10~15 cm long, 5~8 cm wide, the front end is pointed or obtuse, the base is narrowing and turns petiole with wings, the edges are irregularly serrate or entire, the upper surface has appressed short hairs, the under surface is covered with pubescence and glandular dots, leaf blades on the upper part gradually turn smaller, oblong, sessile.
Many capitula (flower heads) are axillary and grow along stem branches, short stipitate or subsessile, 6~8 mm in diameter, upright or slightly pendulous; general involucre is campanulate spherical; involucral bracts are in 3 layers, bracts in the outer layer is extremely short, ovate, front end is apiculate (pointed), pubescent, bracts in the middle and inner layer are oblong, the front end is blunt, glabrous; flowers are yellow, corolla of peripheral female flowers is filiform (threadlike), 3~5-dentate lobed, corolla of the central hermaphroditic flower is tubular (tube-shape), the front end is 5-dentate lobed.
Achenes are strip-shaped and have fine vertical stripes, and the front end has a short rostrum (beak), glandular points and no pappus. Its flowering period is from June to August, and the fruiting period is from September to October.
Ecological environment: The plant grows on hillsides or mountain slopes, roadsides or lawns. It is widely distributed in various parts of China. It is mainly produced in the southwest, the middle reaches of the Yellow River, the northwest, the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and other areas.
Growth characteristics: The plant prefers a warm and moist climate and shady dankish environment, and it can be cultivated in mountainous areas, plains and other areas.
Characters of herbs: The herb is cylindrical, small, 3~4 mm long, and less than 1 mm in diameter. The surface is yellowish-brown or dark brown, with many vertical ridges. One end is contracted into a thin beak shape, and the front end expands into an ash gray (grayish-white) circular ring; the other end is slightly pointed, and there are traces of adherence. The pericarp is thin and fibrous, the spermoderm (seed coat) is thin and transparent, 2 cotyledons, off-white color, slightly oily. The herb has a peculiar odor, and it tastes slight bitter.
Pharmacological actions: ①.repel tapeworms and roundworms; ②.cooling effect and antihypertensive effect on rabbits; ③.The infusion of the herb can kill or inhibit a variety of Gram-negative bacteria, Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus, Bacillus proteus, and so on; ④.synergistic effect with barbiturates, etc.
Medicinal efficacy: Dispelling and killing parasites, removing food retention or Qi stagnation. It is indicated for ascariasis, oxyuria (oxyuriosis, enterobiasis), cestodiasis (taeniasis), enterozoic abdominalgia (abdominal pain due to parasitic infestation), infantile malnutritional stagnation, etc.
Administration of Fructus Carpesii (Hè Shī):
Reference:
Administration Guide of Fructus Carpesii (Hè Shī)
TCM Books:
①.Internally: 3~9 grams; ②.Internally:water decoction, 3~5 qian (about 9~15 grams);or prepare to pill, powder; ③.Internally:mostly prepared to pill, powder; water decoction, 5~10 grams.
Contraindications,Precautions and Adverse Reactions:The herb Fructus Carpesii is toxic, should be forbidden using during pregnancy.
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1.Introduction of He Shi:Common Carpesium Fruit or Fructus Carpesii.
✵The article gives records of the herb Common Carpesium Fruit, its English name, Latin name, property and flavor, its botanical source one plant species, ①.Carpesium abrotanoides L., with a detailed introduction to the botanical features of this plant species, the growth characteristics, and ecological environment of this plant species, the features of the herb Common Carpesium Fruit, its pharmacological actions, medicinal efficacy, and administration guide.
Pin Yin Name: Hè Shī.
Botanical description: The plant, Carpesium abrotanoides L is commonly known as Tiān Míng Jīng (means bright-essence of the heaven). The whole herb is also used as herb medicine and is known as Tiān Míng Jīng, it is different from Hè Shī (the dried ripe fruit). A perennial herb, the plant grows up to 50~100 cm tall; the stem is upright, the upper part is many-branched and densely pubescent, and the lower part is glabrate; leaves are alternate; leaf blades on the lower part are broadly elliptic or oblong, 10~15 cm long, 5~8 cm wide, the front end is pointed or obtuse, the base is narrowing and turns petiole with wings, the edges are irregularly serrate or entire, the upper surface has appressed short hairs, the under surface is covered with pubescence and glandular dots, leaf blades on the upper part gradually turn smaller, oblong, sessile.
Ecological environment: The plant grows on hillsides or mountain slopes, roadsides or lawns. It is widely distributed in various parts of China. It is mainly produced in the southwest, the middle reaches of the Yellow River, the northwest, the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and other areas.
Characters of herbs: The herb is cylindrical, small, 3~4 mm long, and less than 1 mm in diameter. The surface is yellowish-brown or dark brown, with many vertical ridges. One end is contracted into a thin beak shape, and the front end expands into an ash gray (grayish-white) circular ring; the other end is slightly pointed, and there are traces of adherence. The pericarp is thin and fibrous, the spermoderm (seed coat) is thin and transparent, 2 cotyledons, off-white color, slightly oily. The herb has a peculiar odor, and it tastes slight bitter.
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