The efficacy and function of Niuerfengzi

Traditional Chinese medicine is very helpful in treating certain diseases, so you can feel free to choose herbs. Niuerfengzi is a medicinal material that is not unfamiliar to us. Do you know its effects and functions? Let's take a look.

[Other names] Crowfoot fruit (Guangxi Chinese Materia Medica), Sheep dung fruit (Handbook of Chinese Medicinal Materials).

[Source] It is the fruit of the Acer truncatum plant of the Acer truncatum family . The fruits are harvested in autumn when they are ripe and blue-black, and then sun-dried.

[Original form] Cow ear maple, also known as: Lingnan tiger skin nanmu, false nanmu, cow ear bell, pig chin wood.

[Habitat distribution] It grows under sparse woods and in bushes on plains and hills. Distributed in Jiangxi, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places.

[Properties] The dried fruit is oval to ovate, 7 to 10 mm long and 5 to 6 mm in diameter. Blue-black in color, sometimes with light grey powder on the surface, rough and granular, with irregular wrinkles, often with two very short dot-shaped stigma remnants at the top, dot-shaped concave fruit stalk marks at the base, and sometimes brown persistent calyx and fruit stalk can be seen. The peel is thin and not hard. 1 seed, brown, not very full. The smell is weak and the taste is slightly bitter.

【Function and indication】 "Nanning Pharmacopoeia": "Treats chronic dysentery."

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decoct in water, 1 to 1.5 qian.

【Note】 "Nanning Drug Directory": "Pregnant women should not take this product." (This product is poisonous)

【Excerpt】 《*Dictionary》

【Source】 From "Nanning City Pharmacopoeia"

Although the seeds of the Chinese maple tree have many magical effects, they cannot be eaten casually. We need to use the medicine according to the user's own situation. I hope everyone will not take it indiscriminately to avoid unnecessary consequences.