Ayurveda fruit, a Chinese medicine name. It is the mature fruit of the plant Ayurveda in the family Umbelliferae. It is distributed in Xinjiang Hetian, Kashgar and other areas. The mature fruit is used as medicine and has a warm and spicy taste. It has the effects of dispelling cold and dampness, regulating qi and appetite, and relieving pain. It is commonly used for paralysis, convulsions, stomach cold and pain, indigestion, bladder and urinary tract stones.
[Harvest and Storage]
Harvest when the fruit is ripe in late August to mid-September, remove impurities and dry in the sun.
[The Morphology of Ayurveda fruit]
Ayurveda fruit is an annual herb, 30-100cm tall. The stem branches from the base, hairless, with fine longitudinal grooves.
The leaves are thrice pinnate, with narrow linear lobes, 5-10mm long, almost hairless; leaf stalks expand into sheaths.
The compound umbels are terminal and lateral, with usually 8-10 rays of unequal length; the involucral bracts are 4-6, lanceolate, 6-10mm long; the small umbels have numerous flowers.
The bractlets are the same shape as the involucral bracts; the flowers are white; the sepals are not obvious; the petals are oval, with a shallow 2-lobed apex and inner folded small ligules with marginal hairs; the styles are broadly conical and reflexed outward.
Ayurveda fruit is oval, about 1.5mm long, with very short papillary hairs; the fruit ridges are linear, the embryo endosperm is flat on the ventral side, and there is 1 oil duct in the groove and 2 oil ducts on the adnate surface. It flowers in May and fruits in June.
[The Efficacy and Functions of Ayurveda fruit]
Ayurveda fruit mainly treats cold and pain; it also has the functions of dampness elimination and detoxification. It is used for cold and pain in the abdomen; indigestion; nausea; diarrhea; cold hernia; dysmenorrhea; urinary tract stones; boils and sores.
"Xinjiang Herbal Medicine Handbook": It dispels cold and dampness, regulates qi and appetite, and relieves pain. It is used for paralysis, convulsions, stomach cold and pain, indigestion, bladder and urinary tract stones.
[Physical and Chemical Identification]
Take 2g of Ayurveda fruit coarse powder, soak it in 10ml of ethanol for 30 minutes, filter, and the filtrate is used for the following tests:
(1) Take 1ml of the filtrate, dilute it with 0.3-0.4ml of water, add 3 drops of 5% sodium nitrite, 3 drops of 5% aluminum nitrate solution, and then add 4-6 drops of 10% sodium hydroxide solution. It turns cherry red.
(2) Take 1ml of the filtrate, dilute it with 0.5ml of water, add 1-2 drops of 3% ferric chloride solution, and it turns moist blue-brown.
