The efficacy and function of Yaowang Tea

Traditional Chinese medicine has a history of thousands of years. It has appeared at a very early time, and it has very satisfactory effects on the treatment of diseases. There are many types of traditional Chinese medicine. Do you know the medicinal material Yaowang Tea?

[Alias] Golden wax plum, stick tea, flat hemp, golden wax plum, woody Potentilla (Medicinal Plants in China's Desert Areas).

[Source] It is the leaves of the Rosaceae plant. Pick leaves in summer, wash and dry them. Pick the flowers in June and July and dry them in the shade.

[Original form] Small shrub, 20 to 100 cm high. The bark is brown or gray-brown and peels off in flakes; it has many branches, and the young branches are brown and covered with silky hairs. The leaves are odd-pinnate compound leaves, with large leaflets, usually 3 to 7, oblong, rarely oblong-obovate or lanceolate, 1 to 2.5 cm long, acute at apex, cuneate at base, entire, with silky hairs, sparsely or densely appressed hairs above, glabrous or nearly glabrous beneath, sometimes with silky hairs on lateral veins; stipules are membranous, ovate or ovate-lanceolate. The flowers are solitary in leaf axils or in terminal cymes, with receptacles sparsely hairy or filamentous long soft hairs; 5 sepals and 5 epicalyx segments, sepals ovate, epicalyx segments linear-lanceolate; 5 petals, round, yellow. Achenes hairy. The morphology varies greatly. Flowering period is from June to July. The fruiting period is from August to September.

[Habitat distribution] Grown in mountain grasslands, forest edges, lake sides, and sand pits. Distributed in Gansu, Xinjiang, Qinghai, Inner Mongolia, Jilin, Liaoning, Hebei, Shanxi and other places.

【Chemical composition】 Contains 2% triterpenes and 0.7% ursolic acid.

【Nature and flavor】 "Medicinal Plants in Desert Areas of China": "Sweet, neutral."

【Functions and indications】 "Medicinal Plants in Desert Areas of China": "It can relieve summer heat, benefit the brain and clear the heart, regulate menstruation, and strengthen the stomach. It can treat dizziness caused by summer heat, blurred vision, stomach disharmony, food stagnation, and irregular menstruation."

[Usage and Dosage] For oral administration: decoct in water, 2 to 3 qian.

【Excerpt】 《*Dictionary》

After understanding some of the effects and common knowledge of Yaowang Tea, I hope that everyone will use scientific methods in the process of consumption to make it play a greater role.