Allium (Allium) belongs to Allium of Liliaceae. Perennial herbs. The bulb is cylindrical and the outer skin is white. It is light red and won't break. The leaves are cylindrical and hollow. Flowering stems are cylindrical, hollow, swollen below the middle, tapering at the top, leaf sheaths at the lower part, involucre membranous, 2-lobed. A cymose umbel with many flowers, no bracts at the base of the flower stalk, white flowers, nearly ovoid flowers, and tapering tips. Stamens 6, filaments basally connate, adnate to perianth segments. Ovary obovate, slender style, protruding perianth and capsule, obovate, flowering from April to July. Originally from Siberia, it is cultivated all over China. As an important vegetable and condiment. Bulbs and seeds can also be used as medicine, which can promote lactation and detoxify.

garlic

Chinese name: garlic

Source: This product is the dried bulb of garlic in Amaryllidaceae.

Source: Practical color atlas of Chinese herbal medicine. Volume iv

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The original plant garlic is a biennial herb with a height of 60 ~ 80 cm and a strong garlic flavor. Bulbs are oblate, spherical and thick. They are divided into 6 ~ 10 fleshy and petaloid bulbs, and a few are petaloid bulbs, all of which are wrapped by several layers of silvery white or purplish red scales. Each petal is also wrapped by a film, and many slender white fibrous roots are born at the base. Several leaves, basal, strip-shaped or strip-lanceolate, flat or slightly concave, up to 2.5 cm wide, with a long top and a sheath growing at the lower part, with a light green surface, fleshy and white powder. Flowering stems are erect, long cylindrical, longer than leaves, and 55 ~100 cm high; The spathe is light green with a long beak, 7 ~ 10 cm long; Umbellies are terminal, with small and dense flowers; With membranous long bracts l ~ 3, light green; Tepals 6, lanceolate, pink; Stamens 6, white, connate at base, adnate to perianth; Ovary oblong-ovate, flowers usually sterile. Capsule seeds are black. Flowers are often mixed with beads. Flowering from May to June.

It is cultivated all over the country.

Collect and process bulbs in spring and summer, remove stems and leaves, and use them fresh or dry them.

The dried bulb of medicinal materials is oblate or short conical with a diameter of 4 ~ 6 cm. There are 1 ~ 3 layers of gray or light brown film scales on the outside, and there are more than 5 ~ 10 bulbs on the wooden bulbs, with dried flower stem residues in the center and most yellow-white fibrous roots at the base. Beads are slightly oval, with 3-4 faces, tapering at the top, arched back, L-layer membranous scales on the outside and thick fleshy scales on the inside. The gas is specific and strong, and the taste is spicy and lasting. It is better to be dry, big and strong.

Pungent taste and function. Enter spleen, stomach and lung meridians. Warming spleen and stomach, stopping dysentery, relieving cough, sterilizing and expelling worms. Can be used for treating influenza, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, tuberculosis, whooping cough, anorexia, dyspepsia, bacillary dysentery, amebic dysentery, enteritis, pinworm disease, hookworm disease, trichomonas vaginalis, acute appendicitis, alopecia and tinea. The usual dosage is 4-9g for oral administration, and it is decocted, eaten raw, stewed or mashed into pills; External tamping agent.

Function: spleen, stomach and lung meridians entered. Warming spleen and stomach, stopping dysentery, relieving cough, sterilizing and expelling worms. Can be used for treating influenza, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, tuberculosis, whooping cough, anorexia, dyspepsia, bacillary dysentery, amebic dysentery, enteritis, pinworm disease, hookworm disease, trichomonas vaginalis, acute appendicitis, alopecia and tinea. The usual dosage is 4-9g for oral administration, and it is decocted, eaten raw, stewed or mashed into pills; External tamping agent.

Taste: Xin Wen.