The efficacy and function of rusty white gun barrel

Rusty white spear shaft is a medicinal material, which is quite common in life. We can eat Rusty white spear shaft appropriately. Since many people don’t know much about Rusty white spear shaft, let’s take a look at it together.

【Alias】 Jumping bark tree

[Source] Medicinal material source: the rusty bark of the Oleaceae plant.

[Original form] Deciduous tree, about 15m tall, with grayish white bark. The buds are naked and densely covered with rusty, chaffy glandular hairs. Young branches are slightly flat, densely covered with rusty hairs, and gradually become bare. The branchlets are nearly quadrangular, with small, sparsely distributed, brown dot-like protrusions. The upper surface of the leaf axis is shallowly grooved and covered with rusty hairs; the leaflets are 9-15, leathery, elliptic to lanceolate-elliptic, 4-6cm long, 1-2.5cm wide, with acute or obtuse apex, cuneate to broad cuneate base, slightly curled margins, scattered chaff-like hairs on both sides or bald, and the veins below are often covered with white soft hairs and yellow hairs, especially dense on the veins and leaf margins; the leaflets are nearly sessile. The panicle grows at the end of the current year's branches or in the upper leaf axils; the bracts are lanceolate, 2-6mm long; the pedicels are thin, about 3mm long, and both are covered with yellow hairs like the bracts; the calyx is cup-shaped, about 1mm long, truncated or shallowly lobed at the apex and broadly triangular, and slightly pubescent; the corolla is white, with linear lobes, about 3mm long; the bisexual flowers have 2 stamens, equal in length to the corolla; the pistil is about 1mm long, and the stigma is club-shaped and 2-lobed. The samaras are linear-spoon-shaped, with very flat wings extending below the middle of the nut. Flowering period is June-July, and fruiting period is June-August.

[Habitat distribution] Ecological environment: Growing in secondary mixed forests on hillsides.

[Properties] Identification of properties: The bark is plate-like and about 3mm thick. The outer surface is grayish white and cracked in fish scales; the inner surface is grayish brown and smooth. It is hard and brittle, with a fibrous cross section. It has a faint smell and a bitter taste.

【Nature and flavor】 Bitter; astringent; cool

【Functions and indications】 Anti-inflammatory; expelling ascaris. Mainly used for diarrhea, dysentery, and ascariasis

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decoct in water, 10-15g; or grind into powder, 1.5-3g.

【Excerpt】 Chinese Materia Medica

I believe that after reading the above explanations, everyone has a deeper understanding of the traditional Chinese medicine Rusty White Gun Barrel? In fact, many foods or medicinal materials are the same. Only when we understand them can we eat them correctly according to our own situation and effectively help maintain our health.