What is Curculigo orchioides or Xian Mao?

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Botanical Description:Curculigo orchioides.

Rhizoma Curculiginis Extract Curculigo root extract Curculigo orchioides Gaertn root extract Xian Mao land immortal root extract Ethanol extract photo picture image It is a small perennial herb, with an elongated tuberous rootstock with lateral roots. Sessile or short petiolate leaves occur in rosettes. The shape is linear lanceolate-15-45 cms by 1.5-2.4 cms. Flowers are bright yellow.Herb plant, 3~6 leaves cluster,leather skin,needle head,fluff side,bottom leaf purple red,miscellanceous flower,diameter 1cm;berry egg shape,bloom in summer and autumn.

 Habitat: mountain grassland, majorly out put from SiChuan,Zhejiang,Fujian,JiangXi,Hunan,Hubei,Guangdong,Guangxi,Guizhou,Yunnan and Taiwan province of China.

 Collection: dig out in autumn or winter,get out fibre and root head,clean and dry.

 Character: column shape,slight bend, 3~10cm long,diameter 4~8cm,deep brown or brown appearance,granulate,appears trace of fibre and furrows,hard and easy broken,color deeper in heart part. smells aroma taste bitter sour.
 Rhizoma Curculiginis Extract Curculigo root extract Curculigo orchioides Gaertn root extract Xian Mao land immortal root extract Ethanol extract photo picture image

 Perennial herb, high 10-40 cm; rhizome cylindrical, straight down of Health, about one centimeter thick. Geranyl Health ,3-6, lanceolate, 15-30 cm long and 6-20 mm wide, and sometimes scattered soft hair growth. Hua Ting very short, hidden in the vagina; bracts lanceolate, membranaceous; yellow flowers; perianth are infrequent Long Hair, the Department of linear tube, about 2.5 cm, 6 Lobe, lanceolate, long 8-12 mm; stamens 6; ovary lower, Long Hair, Style slender, stigma rod paddle round fruit long moment, about 1.2 cm, the top places have slender perianth extinguishers, a beak-shaped. Distribution in Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan,Taiwan,Southeast Asia.Rhizome medicine,taste bitter and hot.

 Character of herb:The root were cylindrical, slightly curved, 3 to 10 cm long, has a diameter of 0.4 to 0.8 cm, the surface dark brown or brown, rough, fibrous roots are fine-mesh-like vertical and horizontal marks and wrinkles. hard and brittle and easy to break, not flat section, light brown or tan color, the color deeper to center.Light aroma smell and taste hot and light bitter.

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last edit date:3rd,July.2009.