Properties:Anorexia.Atonic dyspepsia.general tonic, protect liver,cure cough.Herb plant with white milk liquid,stem height 50~100cm.Cross grow leaves and shapes round or long piece,3~9cm length,width 1.5~4cm,irregula sawtooth of leaf edge.
Botanical Data of Radix Adenophorae:Upright Ladybell Root Botanical Source:Fourleaf Ladybell Root,Dried Root of Adenophora stricta Miq.
English Name:Upright Ladybell Root
Common Name:Nanshashen,Fourleaf Ladybell Root,Mountain ladybell Root.
Parts used: dried root and rhizome.
Description of Adenophora stricta Miq.: Description of Adenophora stricta Miq.
Herb plant with white milk liquid,stem height 50~100cm.Cross grow leaves and shapes round or long piece,3~9cm length,width 1.5~4cm,irregula sawtooth of leaf edge. long anthotaxy,bell shape,5 split at top,with needle shape small feather, purple and blue chaplet,wide bell shape,1.8cm long.Fruit ball shape, flower August to September,fruit 1 month later.
Collection:Dig out in spring or Autumn,raze out crude skin when fresh, then dry.
Active constituents of Radix Adenophorae.: Phytochemicals and Active constituents: Ladybell Root Saponins,xanthotoxin£¬ammoidin,Phyto Sterol.Protein,Starch,and more minerals and vitamins.
Function and Active Uses of Radix Adenophorae.: Function and Active Uses: general tonic, protect liver,cure cough.
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Pharmakon Warning: The order of knowledge is not the transparent order of forms and ideas,as one might be tempted retrospectively to interpret it; it is the antidote....(Dissemination,Plato's Pharmacy,II.The Ingredients:Phantasms,Festivals,and Paints;138cf. Jacques Derrida.).
And as it happens,the technique of imitation,along with the production of the simulacrum,has always been in Plato's eyes manifestly magical,thaumaturgical:......and the same things appear bent and straight to those who view them in water and out,or concave and convex,owing to similar errors of vision about colors, and there is obviously every confusion of this sort in our souls.And so scene painting (skiagraphia) in its exploitation of this weakness of four nature falls nothing short of witchcraft (thaumatopoia), and so do jugglery and many other such contrivances.(Republic X,602c-d;cf.also 607c).