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Botanical Name |
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Magnolia sprengeri Pamp. |
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Sprenger's magnolia, Eric Savill Magnolia |
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Magnoliaceae |
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General Info
Description |
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A small deciduous tree, to 20 m in height with pale grayish brown to blackish brown, exfoliating bark. Young twigs are pale yellowish brown. The dark green leaves are obovate, 10-18 cm long and 4.5-10 cm broad, with a 1-3 cm petiole. Fragrant flowers appear before leaves, erect, cup-shaped, 15 cm wide, with 12-14 tepals that are white to rosy-red. The fruit is a cylindric aggregate of follicles 6-18 cm long. |
Pharmacology
Medicinal Use |
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The dried flower buds are used in treating sinusitis and headache, accompanied with obstruction of the nose, purulent nasal discharge, loss of smelling, chronic rhinitis, allergic, rhinitis, and maxillary sinusitis. |
Reference |
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Jing-Nuan Wu. An Illustrated Chinese Materia Medica. P: 414, Oxford University Press, Inc.2005.
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