? Chinese medicine tablets traits identification

Soapberry spines and soapberry branches

Soapberry spines are dried spines of the leguminous plant Soapberry, often adulterated with Soapberry branches; Soapberry branches are dried short branches of the same plant.

Soapberry spines are mostly cylindrical segments or thick pieces, some visible branching spines, spine end sharp. The surface is smooth, purplish brown to tan, the tip more dark red, with fine longitudinal, usually without white lenticels. Section wood narrow, yellowish white, no obvious annual rings and radial texture; pith broad, accounting for more than 3/5, light reddish brown. The gas is slight and the flavor is faint.

Soapberry branches surface gray-brown or dark brown, with coarse, with obvious convex gray-white lenticels, some visible petiole scars, do not have branched spines. The section wood part is broad, yellowish white, with obvious annual rings and radial texture; the pith part is smaller, accounting for less than 2/5, brownish.

Poria and Paeonia lactiflora

Poria is the dried mycelium of the fungus Poria, family Polyporaceae; Paeonia lactiflora is the dried root of Paeonia lactiflora of family Buttercupiaceae, which is often adulterated into the drinking tablets of Poria.

Poria are mostly round or oblong slices with irregularly notched edges. The surface is black, gray-black or brownish-black, wrinkled or with verrucous protuberances. The cut surface is milky white to yellowish white, delicate, soft, elastic and granular when pressed. The body is firm but not solid, light as cork. Slight gas, light flavor.

Red peony is mostly irregular pieces, the edge is more neat. Surface brownish red or purple-brown, with, some visible root scars or stem scars. Cutting surface gray-white, some slightly purplish red, harder, fibrous, with radial texture and formation of layer ring, some of the central part of the hole. The texture is hard and heavy. Gas aroma special, taste slightly bitter, sour and astringent.

Honeysuckle and Coriander, Yellow Coriander

Honeysuckle is the dried flower buds or first-opening flowers of Lonicera japonica, often adulterated with Coriander, Yellow Coriander; Coriander is the dried flower buds of Coriandrum sativum, Ruixiangidae; Yellow Coriander is the dried flower buds of Heshuo mowers, Ruixiangidae.

Honeysuckle is rod-shaped, thick at the top and thin at the bottom, slightly curved, 2-3 cm long, about 3 mm in diameter in the upper part and 1.5 mm in diameter in the lower part, with a yellowish-white or yellowish-brown surface, densely pubescent or nearly glabrous. Calyx green, apex 5-lobed, lobes hairy; corolla tubular, apex 2-lipped; stamens 5, attached to the tube wall; ovary glabrous, style slender. Gas fragrant, taste slightly bitter.

Coriandrum sativum is often 3 to 7 clusters on a short floral axis, the base has bracts 1 to 2 pieces, or off as a single. The single flower is mallet-shaped, more curved, 1-1.7cm long, about 1.5mm in diameter; the perianth tube is blue-purple or gray-black, densely pubescent, with a 4-lobed petal-like apex; the stamens are 8, in 2 whorls, inserted in the middle and upper part of the perianth tube; there are no scales on the disk; the ovary is densely pubescent outside, and the styles are extremely short or absent. The odor is slight, and the taste is pungent.

Yellow coriander is similar to coriander, but more single scattered flowers, 0.8-1.2 cm long, about 1.2 mm in diameter. perianth tube yellow, sparsely pubescent; disk is 1 scale; style is very short. Gas slightly fragrant.

Turtle shell and Shanrui turtle shell

Turtle shell is the dorsal armor of the soft-shelled turtle (Pelodiscus sinensis) of the family Pelodiscidae; Shanrui turtle shell is the dorsal armor of the soft-shelled turtle (Pelodiscus sinensis) of the family Pelodiscidae, and it is often cracked and mixed into the drinkable tablets of Turtle shell.

The complete single ribbed plate of the turtle shell is a rectangular piece, slightly curved inward at both ends, 4-7 cm long, 0.8-2 cm wide, 0.2-0.4 cm thick, with a concave and convex sculpture and reticulation on the dorsal surface; the inner surface is smooth, with ribs elevated on the ventral surface of the ribbed plate, with an inverted triangle on the inner end and a long bar on the outer end, which are significantly beyond the ribbed plate; the two sides are finely toothed. The texture is hard, with fine holes in the middle of the fractured surface. The gas is slightly fishy and the flavor is light.

The complete single ribbed plate of the mountain softshell turtle shell is an oblong or irregular piece, slightly curved inward, 0.4-0.6 cm thick, with small warty protrusions scattered on the back; the inner surface is smooth, with some scattered black-brown lines; the ribs are elevated on the ventral surface of the ribbed plate, with a slightly triangular inner end, and an elongated outer end that is slightly beyond the ribbed plate. Fishy, slightly salty flavor.

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