Study on origin and authentication of medicinal materials of Dalbergiae Lignum in crude drug's market.
- Author:
Wen-qi LIU
;
Yi-yun LU
;
Si-yu MA
;
Feng WEI
;
Shuang-cheng MA
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH:
China;
Dalbergia;
anatomy & histology;
chemistry;
classification;
Herbal Medicine;
economics;
Plants, Medicinal;
chemistry;
classification;
Quality Control;
Xylem;
anatomy & histology;
chemistry
- From:
China Journal of Chinese Materia Medica
2015;40(16):3183-3186
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
The study is aimed to distinguish morphological characteristics of Dalbergiae Lignum collected from crude drug's markets and establish a identification methods and the quality standard for Dalbergiae Lignum. The macroscopic and microscopic features of Dalbergiae Lignum from crude drug's market were observed, analyzed and compared according to Hongmu specification issued by the People's Republic of China in 2000, and by the characteristics recorded in domestic monograph of Mucai Shibie (wood identification). The redwood of Dalbergiae Lignum cut into small pieces as medicinal material are dry heart wood of mahogany (trees from Dalbergia sp.), which characteristics of the small pieces as crude drug are different. There are differences in macroscopic and microscopic features about texture of wood and color, odor, taste, transverse section, radial section, tangential section. The results can provide basis for identification, application and improment of the quality standard of Dalbergiae Lignum as medicinal material.
