Herba asari PE
Herba Asari (Xi Xin)
DESCRIPTION: Herb of Asarum heterotropoides var. mandshuricum Usually rolled into a mass. Rhizomes of horizontal growth irregularly cylindrical, short-branched, 1-10cm long, 2-4mm in diameter; externally grayish-brown, rough, with ringed nodes, internodes 2-3mm long, with dish-like stem scars at the top of branch. Roots slender, densely occurring at nodes, 10-20cm long, 1mm in diameter; externally grayish-yellow, smooth or longitudinally wrinkled, with fibrous roots or scars. Basal leaves 1-3, long-petioled, surface pale green and glabrous; lamina mostly broken, when whole, cordate to reniform cordate, margin entire, sharply acute at the apex and deeply cordate at the base, 4-10cm long, 6-12cm wide. Some with flowers, mostly crumpled, campanulate, dark purple, perianth-lobes incurved at the base and almost appressed to the perianth-tube. Fruits hemigloboid. Odour, pungent and aromatic; taste, pungent with tongue-numbing feeling.
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