The efficacy and function of snow mountain forest

Friends who don’t know about snow mountain forest will not understand what effects and functions snow mountain forest has. Snow mountain forest is a traditional Chinese medicinal material. Many people only know it in terms of its shape, so it is difficult to understand what benefits snow mountain forest can really bring to people’s health. These require us to have an in-depth understanding of snow mountain forest as a medicinal material.

[Other names] Kunxiansheng (Survey of Medicinal Plants in Shaanxi), Huangyanglian (Zhejiang Tianmu Yam Medicinal Plants), Changqingcao (Gansu Health Newsletter (4) 1972).

[Source] It is the whole herb with roots of Buxus euphorbia, a plant of the Buxaceae family. It can be harvested throughout the year and dried in the shade or in the sun.

[Original form] Pink-stamen boxwood, also known as top-stamen triangular boxwood.

[Habitat distribution] Grown in the grass under the alpine forest. Distributed in Zhejiang, Hubei, Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, Guizhou and other places.

[Chemical composition] The plant contains buxusine A, B, C, D, buxusamide A, B, buxusamide A, B, C, D, E, F, o-deacetylbuxusine B, N-methylbuxusamide A, O, N-di-deacylated-N-methylbuxusine A, buxuscyclonitrile A, B, buxuslactone A, epibuxusine A, buxusol. It also contains boxwood glycol A, triterpene triol, dandelion glycol, boxwood glycol B and boxwood ketone alcohol. The leaves contain boxwood and eucommia ulmoides.

[Nature and flavor] "Shaanxi Chinese Herbal Medicine": "It tastes bitter and slightly spicy, and has a cool nature."

【Functions and indications】 "Shaanxi Chinese Herbal Medicine": "It can eliminate rheumatism, clear away heat and detoxify, regulate menstruation and activate blood circulation, and stop leucorrhea. It can treat rheumatic muscle and bone pain, leucorrhea, menorrhagia, and irritability."

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decocted in water, 2 to 3 qian; or soaked in wine.

[Additional prescription] ① Treating weakness and obesity: chop half a pound of fresh yellow stalks into small pieces, stuff into the belly of a chicken with the internal organs removed, add rice wine and stew until done, remove the water, eat the chicken and the juice, and consume it all at once or within one day. (Zhejiang Tianmu Yam Plant Records)

[Clinical application] Treatment of chronic bronchitis: Take orally evergreen grass extract tablets (each tablet contains 2.2 grams of crude drug), 2 tablets each time, 3 times a day. 104 cases were observed, and the total effective rate was 96.2% and the near control and significant effective rate was 65.4% at the end of the 20-day treatment course. 40 days after the end of the treatment course, treatment was continued for another 3 months (20 days of medication per month). The total effective rate reached 97.9%, the near control and significant effective rates reached 72.9%, and the effective rates for cough, sputum and asthma were 97.9%, 86.8% and 85.5% respectively. Among the 74 cases, 7 showed improvement in abnormal chest signs after fluoroscopic review. Sputum bacteriological examination was performed in 12 cases, and the bacterial count was reduced compared with that before treatment.

【Excerpt】 《*Dictionary》

【Source】 From Shaanxi Chinese Herbal Medicine

Therefore, through the detailed introduction of the traditional Chinese medicine snow mountain forest in the above article, it is not difficult to find that snow mountain forest has many effects and functions, and its effect in health care is still very good.