Murraya Paniculata
(Murraya Paniculata [L.] Jack.)

Tribe: Rutaceae
Crude Name: Murrayae Ramulus el Folium .

Description
This plant usually grows wild in the bush, forest edge, or planted as an ornamental plant and the plant fence. Murraya paniculata can be found up to an altitude of approximately 400 m above sea level. Morphological variation is enormous.
Commonly planted to fence in the yard, usually small-leaved species and abundance.
Shrub or small tree, much branched, 3-8 m tall, stem grooved hard, not spiny. Leaves compound, finned odd with children stemmed leaves, shape ovate or oblong breech, the tip and base of the spike, the edge of the flat, 2-7 cm long, 1-3 cm wide, smooth, glossy, green color, no smell when crushed. Flower-shaped compound 1-8 bunches of white color, scent, get out of the armpit leaf or twig tip. Fruit fleshy, elongated oval or round, 8-12 mm long, green when young old shiny red, seeded second.

Nature and Usefulness
Murraya paniculata is spicy, bitter, slightly warm, into the heart meridian, liver, and lung. Efficacious as numbing (anesthesia), tranquilizers (sedatives), anti-inflammatory, antireumatic, antithyroid, eliminating swelling, circulatory facilitator, and cute mollit.

Chemical content
Leaves contain cadinene, methyl-anthranilate, bisabolene, β-caryophyllene, geraniol, 3-carene, eugenol, citronellol, methyl-salicylate, s-guaiazulene, osthole, panicullatin, tannins, and coumurrayin. Bark contains mexotioin, 5-7-dimethoxy-8-(2.3-dihydroxyisopentyl) coumarin. Medium containing scopoletin flowers, and fruits contain a semi-α-carotenone.

Portion used
Leaves, twigs and roots. Bark is also efficacious drugs.

How to use
Roots and leaves as much as 9-15 g of dried or fresh leaves as much as 30-60 g, boiled or soaked in wine, then drink.
For external use, finely ground fresh leaves, if dab on a sore spot, or boiled, the water washing untu.

Note
o In other countries, was created with a patent medicine Tongzhongling.
o Prolipid Capsules also contain these herbs.