Introduction of Jin Ying Zi:Cherokee Rose Fruit or Fructus Rosae Laevigatae.
✵The article gives records of the herb Cherokee Rose Fruit, its English name, Latin name, property and flavor, its botanical source one plant species, ①.Rosa laevigata Michx., 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 Cherokee Rose Fruit, its pharmacological actions, medicinal efficacy, and administration guide.
Fructus Rosae Laevigatae(Cherokee Rose Fruit).
Pin Yin Name: Jīn Yīnɡ Zǐ.
English Name: Cherokee Rose Fruit.
Latin Name: Fructus Rosae Laevigatae.
Property and flavor: neutral in nature, tastes sour, sweet, puckery.
Brief introduction: The Herb Fructus Rosae Laevigatae is the dried ripe fruit of Cherokee Rose, Rosa laevigata Mickx., used as an astringent for the treatment of seminal emission, enuresis, frequent micturition, and chronic diarrhea. The herb is commonly known as Fructus Rosae Laevigatae, Cherokee Rose Fruit, Jīn Yīnɡ Zǐ.
Botanical source: Herbal classic book defined the herb Fructus Rosae Laevigatae (Cherokee Rose Fruit) as the dried ripe fruit of the plant species Rosa laevigata Michx. It is a plant species of the Rose L. genus, the Rosaceae family (rose family) of the Rosales order. This commonly used species is introduced:
(1).Rosa laevigata Michx.
Botanical description: The plant, Rosa laevigata Michx is commonly known as Cherokee Rose, Jīn Yīnɡ Zǐ. An evergreen climbing shrub, the plant grows up to 5 meters high; branchlets are stout, recurved spines are scattered, glabrous, have glandular hairs in the seedling period, and gradually shed when it grows old. Stems are glabrous, and have falcate spines (barbs) and bristles. Pinnately compound leaves, petioles and rachis have small prickles and bristles; stipules (peraphyllum) are lanceolate, separate from petioles, and caducous. Lobules (leaflets) are coriaceous, usually 3, rarely 5, elliptic-ovate, obovate, or lanceolate-ovate, 2~7 cm long, 1.2~3.5 cm wide or 1.5~4.5 cm wide, front end is sharp-pointed or acuminate, the base is orbicular (subrotund), edges are fine serrulated, glabrous, glossy.
Flowers are solitary and grow in leaf axils or on the tip of lateral branches, white, 5-7 cm in diameter, or 5-9 cm in diameter, pedicels are 1.8-2.5 cm long, occasionally up to 3 cm long, pedicels and hypanthium (floral tube) are densely covered with bristles outside, and bristles turn needle-like spines along with the growth of fruits; 5 sepals; 5 flower petals; sepals are ovate-lanceolate, the front end is foliate (leaf-like), edges are pinnatilobate or entire, often has bristles and glandular hairs, the inner surface is densely covered with pilose, slightly shorter than flower petals; flower petals are white, broadly obovate, front end is emarginate; many stamens; many carpels, styles are separate, piliferous, shorter than stamens, stigma grow in a tuft at the opening of the receptacle.
Fruits are pyriform (pear-shaped), obovoid, rarely subsphaeroidal (near-spherical), 2-4 cm long, yellowish red or puce (purple brown), densely covered with bristles outside, the tip has long and extended or outward persistent sepals, the carpopodium (fruit stalk) is about 3 cm long, sepals are persistent. Its flowering period is from April to June, and the fruiting period is from July to November.
Ecological environment: The shrub grows in sunny mountain fields, field side, bushes on riversides, and in areas at altitudes of 100~1,600 meters above sea level. It is mainly distributed in Central, East, South, and Southwest China, the Yangtze River area, and Zhujiang River area, and other areas.
Growth characteristics: The shrub prefers a warm and dry climate. It is appropriate to choose a field with good drainage, a loose, fertile sandy loam for planting.
Characters of herbs: The herb is a pseudocarp (spurious fruit) developed from the receptacle, which is obovate, 2~3.5 cm long, and 1~2 cm in diameter. The surface is yellow-red to brown-red, slightly glossy, with many brown protrusions formed when residues of spiny bristles shedding; The persistent calyx at the front end is disc-shaped, with a slightly raised center and a yellow stylopodium. The base is attenuated, with a residual carpopodium (fruit stalk). The texture of the herb is firm and hard, after longitudinal cutting, it can be seen that the wall thickness of the hypanthium (calyx tube) is 1~2 mm, the inner wall is densely covered with yellow and glossy fluff, dozens of achenes, flat fusiform (flat spindle-shaped), about 7 mm long, pale yellowish-brown, ligneous (woody), and covered with yellowish fluff outside. The herb has a slight odor, it tastes sweet and slight puckery. The herb of a better grade is big, reddish yellow, has luster and deburred.
Pharmacological actions: ①. urinary system effect; ②. effect of smooth muscle; ③. prevention and cure atherosclerosis, reduce serum cholesterol, significantly reduce lipoprotein; ④. anti-pathogen and bacteriostatic activity: the water decoction of the herb Fructus Rosae Laevigatae can inhibit PR/8 strains of influenza virus, and other strains of influenza virus such as Asian A 57-4 strains, Lee strains of type B, 1233 strains of type C and Sendai strains of type D, etc. The water decoction of the root has an antibacterial effect and can inhibit Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, etc.
Medicinal efficacy: Controlling nocturnal emission, relieving polyuria, curing metrorrhagia and leukorrhagia, astringent and relieving diarrhea. It is indicated for spermatorrhea (nocturnal emission), night emission, anischuria (enuresis, bedwetting), frequent urination, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis, morbid leukorrhea, archoptosis (anal prolapse), hysteroptosia (metroptosis), white turbidity, splenoasthenic diarrhea and dysentery, chronic diarrhea, protracted dysentery, dyspnea with cough of lung deficiency, spontaneous perspiration (spontaneous sweating), perspire during sleep (night sweating), etc.
Administration of Fructus Rosae Laevigatae (Jīn Yīnɡ Zǐ):
Reference:
Administration Guide of Fructus Rosae Laevigatae (Jīn Yīnɡ Zǐ)
TCM Books:
①.Internally: 6~12 grams; ②.Internally:water decoction, 1.5~3 qian (about 4.5~9 grams);or prepare to pill, powder, or prepare an ointment; ③.Internally:water decoction, 9~15 grams;or prepared to pill, powder, or prepare an ointment.
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1.Introduction of Jin Ying Zi:Cherokee Rose Fruit or Fructus Rosae Laevigatae.
✵The article gives records of the herb Cherokee Rose Fruit, its English name, Latin name, property and flavor, its botanical source one plant species, ①.Rosa laevigata Michx., 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 Cherokee Rose Fruit, its pharmacological actions, medicinal efficacy, and administration guide.
Pin Yin Name: Jīn Yīnɡ Zǐ.
Botanical description: The plant, Rosa laevigata Michx is commonly known as Cherokee Rose, Jīn Yīnɡ Zǐ. An evergreen climbing shrub, the plant grows up to 5 meters high; branchlets are stout, recurved spines are scattered, glabrous, have glandular hairs in the seedling period, and gradually shed when it grows old. Stems are glabrous, and have falcate spines (barbs) and bristles. Pinnately compound leaves, petioles and rachis have small prickles and bristles; stipules (peraphyllum) are lanceolate, separate from petioles, and caducous. Lobules (leaflets) are coriaceous, usually 3, rarely 5, elliptic-ovate, obovate, or lanceolate-ovate, 2~7 cm long, 1.2~3.5 cm wide or 1.5~4.5 cm wide, front end is sharp-pointed or acuminate, the base is orbicular (subrotund), edges are fine serrulated, glabrous, glossy.
Flowers are solitary and grow in leaf axils or on the tip of lateral branches, white, 5-7 cm in diameter, or 5-9 cm in diameter, pedicels are 1.8-2.5 cm long, occasionally up to 3 cm long, pedicels and hypanthium (floral tube) are densely covered with bristles outside, and bristles turn needle-like spines along with the growth of fruits; 5 sepals; 5 flower petals; sepals are ovate-lanceolate, the front end is foliate (leaf-like), edges are pinnatilobate or entire, often has bristles and glandular hairs, the inner surface is densely covered with pilose, slightly shorter than flower petals; flower petals are white, broadly obovate, front end is emarginate; many stamens; many carpels, styles are separate, piliferous, shorter than stamens, stigma grow in a tuft at the opening of the receptacle.
Fruits are pyriform (pear-shaped), obovoid, rarely subsphaeroidal (near-spherical), 2-4 cm long, yellowish red or puce (purple brown), densely covered with bristles outside, the tip has long and extended or outward persistent sepals, the carpopodium (fruit stalk) is about 3 cm long, sepals are persistent. Its flowering period is from April to June, and the fruiting period is from July to November.
Characters of herbs: The herb is a pseudocarp (spurious fruit) developed from the receptacle, which is obovate, 2~3.5 cm long, and 1~2 cm in diameter. The surface is yellow-red to brown-red, slightly glossy, with many brown protrusions formed when residues of spiny bristles shedding; The persistent calyx at the front end is disc-shaped, with a slightly raised center and a yellow stylopodium. The base is attenuated, with a residual carpopodium (fruit stalk). The texture of the herb is firm and hard, after longitudinal cutting, it can be seen that the wall thickness of the hypanthium (calyx tube) is 1~2 mm, the inner wall is densely covered with yellow and glossy fluff, dozens of achenes, flat fusiform (flat spindle-shaped), about 7 mm long, pale yellowish-brown, ligneous (woody), and covered with yellowish fluff outside. The herb has a slight odor, it tastes sweet and slight puckery. The herb of a better grade is big, reddish yellow, has luster and deburred.
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