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Saussurea  costus

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[Chinese name] yunmuxiang

[English name] radix saussureae lappae

[Used part]This product is the dried [b] root [/b] of [b] Aucklandia lappa Decne, a plant of the compositae family [/b].
Autumn, winter two seasons of mining, remove sediment and fibrous roots, cut into sections, the large vertical section into a flap, dry after the bump to rough skin.

[Plant morphology] The herb.Roots stout, cylindrical, usually unbranched, 1 -- 2.5 cm in diameter, brownish.Stem very short, lobe rosette tile ground, petiole 2 ~ 6 ~ 16 cm, is white, leaf blade on both sides the same color (green or light green), lanceolate or oblong-elliptic oval lanceolate, 10 ~ 30 cm long, 5 ~ 13 cm wide, crack in the plume, 5 ~ 7 of lobes, thin is not divided, lobes margin irregular tooth crack, the above is sparse glandular hairs, sparse hairs and spider filaments hairy below.Flower ordinals clustered at the apex of branches, inflorescence 5 ~ 10 cm in diameter, involucral bracts about 6, apex spiny, flowers all tubular, purple, corolla tube ca. 3 cm or longer, apex 5-lobed, stamens 5, anthers arrow shaped, ovary inferior, style slightly longer than corolla.Achenes 7 ~ 8 mm long, crested hairs multilayer.Flowers and fruits from July to October.

[harvesting and processing]Autumn mining, remove the root, silt and root head glue, cut into sections and dry.

[chemical composition] The root oil mainly contains dehydrocostus-lactone, costunolide, which is 50%[1,2], saussureal, 4 estrogen-methoxydehy-drocotuslactone [2], xylolactone, di-hydrocostolone [3],
Alpha ring combination lactone (alpha cyclocostunolide), beta ring combination lactone, civil lactone (alantolactone), YiTu costus lactone (isoalan - tollactone) [4], the different combination of lactone (isodehydrocostuslactone) to hydrogen, different chrysanthemum element (isozaluzanin) of China and the United States C [5], 12 - methoxy 2 hydrogen to the combination of lactone (12 - methoxydihydrodehydrocostuslactone),
Dihydro-costunolide (6), costene (costene), aplotaxene (1), (E) 9-isopropyl-6-methyl-5,9-decadien-2-one [(E) 9-isopropyl-6-methyl-5,9-decadien-2-one][7], (E) -6, 10-dimethyl-9-methyl-5-decadien-2-one [(E) -6,
10-dimethyl-9-methyleneundec-5-en-2-one][8], p-cymene, myrcene, mas-elemene, cedrene, humulene, mas-ionone, linalool, cedrol [3], costol, elemol [9, 10],
Betulin (etulin), so-sitosterol, stigmasterol (stigmasterol) [9], costic acid, palmitic acid and linoleic acid [4], etc.
[br] root also contain aspartate (sapartic acid) and glutamate (glutamic acid), glycine (glycine), asparagine (aspartic acid) and glutamate (glutamic acid), glycine (glycine), asparagine (asparagine), citrulline (citrulline), gamma-aminobutyric acid (gamma aminobutic acid) and 20 kinds of amino acids, ethanolamine (cholamine) [11],
Saussureanine (A, B, C, D, E), massoniresinol-4-o-joy-d-glucopyranoside (massoniresinol-4-o-joy-d-glucopyranoside), picriside B (picriside B), syringin (syringin) [12], etc.

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