The efficacy and function of summer jasmine

Modern medical research believes that summer sweet contains many nutrients that are beneficial to the human body. As a traditional Chinese medicine, its efficacy and functions have been widely recognized. Let's take a look at its specific situation.

【Other name】 Peony wood, big-leaf firewood

[Source] The flowers and roots of Chimonanthus chinensis of the Chimonanthus family.

[Original form] Deciduous shrub, 1 to 3 meters high. The bark is grayish white or grayish brown with raised lenticels. The leaves are opposite, membranous, broadly ovate-elliptic, rounded to obovate, 18-26 cm long, 11.5-16 cm wide, acute or mucronate at apex, rounded at base, entire or irregularly serrulate, and covered with brown stiff hairs along veins when young. The flowers are solitary at the top of the branches of the current year, without fragrance. The tepals are of two types, numerous, arranged in a shingle-like manner, and spirally grown at the top of the urn-shaped receptacle. The outer tepals are 12 to 14, petal-shaped, white, with pale purple-red edges. The inner tepals are 9 to 12, corona-shaped, thick fleshy, light yellow, with scattered pale purple-red fine spots on the base of the ventral surface; there are many stamens, and the filaments are extremely short; most pistils are bundled, and the ovary is born in a concave receptacle. Achenes are rectangular, 1 to 1.3 cm long, brown, and sparsely covered with white silky hairs.

[Habitat distribution] Suitable for relatively moist soil with humus. Growing in thickets on hillsides and in woods beside streams. Distributed in Zhejiang.

【Functions and indications】 Treats stomach pain.

[Additional prescription] For treating stomach pain: 4 qian of summer sweet plum flower or root, 3 to 4 qian each of white horse bone (Rubiaceae Serissa sempervivum) and vertical lacquer wood (Hamamelisaceae Loropetalum) root, 4 to 5 qian of cold twist (Rosaceae Kaoliangba) root, and 2 to 3 qian of cranesbill. Decoction in water, add brown sugar, and take once every morning and evening on an empty stomach.

【Excerpt】 《*Dictionary》

[Source] From "Zhejiang Tianmu Yam Plant Records"

The above is an introduction to the effects of wax plum. When using it, you can use it according to the needs mentioned above. Wax plum is also very helpful in treating certain diseases.