Characteristics of medicinal materials: the dried roots are cylindrical and branched. Different lengths, 0.5-3 cm in diameter. The surface is grayish yellow or yellowish brown, with many fine longitudinal stripes and transverse lenticels; The goods are in pieces. Hard, not easy to break, narrow dough; Easy to tear, fibrous; The wood is broad and light yellow.

Born on hillsides, ravines and roadside bushes. Shrubs or small trees distributed in the south and southwest of China, with a height of1~ 2 meters, the whole plant has appressed short bristles and white milk. The root is light yellow, the skin is flexible and fragrant. Stems erect, rarely branched. Leaves alternate, papery, oblong-lanceolate or broadly ovate. In summer, inflorescences are spherical and axillary in pairs. Inflorescence turns from red to black when it is ripe.

value

Five-finger peach has certain medicinal value, its medicinal parts are mainly roots, and its medicinal components are mainly psoralen, bergamot lactone and so on. In recent years, many scholars have analyzed the chemical constituents of Ficus hirta.

The volatile components in Ficus hirta were extracted by ether extraction or steam distillation, and analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Or through various chromatography, the chemical components are separated and purified, and the separated compounds are identified. Through the above methods, it was found that the chemical components in the five-finger peach were flavonoids, coumarins, terpenoids and so on.

Reference to the above contents: Baidu Encyclopedia-Finger Peach Root (Chinese Medicine), Baidu Encyclopedia-Finger Peach Root