What are the medicinal effects of Japanese cherry blossom?
[Medicinal name]: Japanese cherry blossom
[Source]: The bark of the dicotyledonous medicinal plant Japanese cherry blossom, of the Rosaceae family.
[Efficacy]: Diffuses the lung and relieves cough.
[Indications]: Used for cough and fever.
[Nature, flavor and meridian tropism]: Pungent, neutral. Lung meridian.
[Usage and dosage]: Oral administration: decocted in water, 3-9 grams.
[Distribution of animal and plant resources]: Native to Japan, now cultivated throughout our country.
[Latin name]: Japanese cherry blossom PrunusyedoensisMatsum.
[Textual research]: First recorded in "Iconographia Cormophytorum Sinicorum".
[Chemical constituents of the Chinese materia medica]: The bark and wood contain gentisic acid 5-glucoside and 5-rhamnosylglucoside (Sakurarin), and cherry glycoside; the wood contains d-catechin; the stems and leaves contain quercetin 3-galactoside; the young leaves contain coumarin, trans-o-hydroxycinnamic acid glucoside, and cyanogenic glycosides; the seed kernel contains 32% fatty oil, mainly a-eleostearic acid and sitosterol.