Linseed Semen Lini Alias: Hu Mazi, large flax.
[Source] for flax plants Linum usitatissimum L. Flax seeds.
[] Annual herbaceous plant morphology, high 40 ~ 70cm. Stems erect, much branched upper. Leaves linear to linear-lanceolate, long 1 ~ 3cm, width 1.5 ~ 2.5cm, apex acute, entire, sessile. Sepals ovate, margin cilia; petals blue or white; stamens 5, 5 staminodes; ovary 5 room, style separation stigma rod. Capsule spherical diameter of about 7mm, crack the top five. 10 seed. Flowering from May to June, the fruit of 6 to 9 months. Country have cultivated. The main production Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang, Liaoning, Jilin.
[Autumn] plucking fruit harvesting plants, dried, lay the seeds, remove impurities, and then dried.
[Character] seed flat oval, long 4 ~ 7mm, width 2 ~ 3mm. Surface reddish brown or grayish brown, smooth and shiny, rounded at one end, the other end of the tip and slightly skewed. Hilum is located at the tip of the depression, planted at the edge of the side of the ridge. Testa crackers, endosperm membranous, brown, yellow-white cotyledons, rich oil. Chewing beany flavor.
[Taste] nature, sweet.
[Indications] moistening, chills. For itchy skin, leprosy, dizziness, constipation. Chemical composition of fatty oil, the main for linolenic acid, linoleic acid, oleic acid and palmitic acid, stearic acid glycerides; another twenty-containing ferulic acid alkyl esters (eicosylferulate), linamarin (linamarin) and the like. SDG called open-loop two different phenolic glucoside larch. This is very similar to human estrogen and phytoestrogens. SDG mainly found in flaxseed, flax varieties depending on its content, climatic and ecological conditions, accounting for about 0.9% -1.5% of the general seed weight than other known lignans containing 66 kinds of food high 100 ~ 800 times. There containing ω-3 fatty acids, nutritional functional soluble dietary fiber and lignans super concentrated emulsions and whole milk drinks and other products emerging on the market.