As a traditional Chinese medicine, milk seed provides us with a variety of nutrients. It can also solve some diseases encountered by the body, so it is deeply loved by people. Let’s take a look at the nutrients and benefits of milk. 【Alias】 Yangchunzi (Illustrated Catalogue of Plant Names and Realities), sweet dates, wheat grains (Illustrated Guide to Higher Plants of China), Banchunzi, Yanmazi, Mimaozi, Yangnazi, Mangzhuzi, and Heliaozi (Hunan Materia Medica). [Original form] Deciduous shrub, up to 4 m tall. The branches have thorns, the twigs are yellowish brown, or partly covered with silvery white scales. The leaves are alternate, papery, elliptic to obovate-lanceolate, 3-9 cm long, 1.5-5 cm wide, obtuse to mucronate at the apex, rounded to broadly cuneate at the base, usually curled at the margin, with silvery-white scales or stellate hairs on the upper side when young, which may fall off when old, and silvery-white or mixed with brown scales on the lower side; the petiole is 5-7 mm long. The flowers are axillary, yellow-white, fragrant, with scales on the outside, about 1.2 cm long; the perianth tube is funnel-shaped, 4-lobed at the upper part, and the tube is longer than the lobes; there are 4 stamens; the style is sparsely covered with white stellate pubescence; the fruit is nearly spherical to ovoid, 6-8 mm long, initially with silvery-white or mixed with brown scales, and red when mature, and the flowering period is May to June. The fruiting period is from September to October. 【Habitat distribution】 It grows in dry land on hillsides, sandy land by rivers, and in thickets. Distributed in the Yangtze River Basin and the areas to its north. 【Nature and flavor】 Bitter, sour and cool. 【Function and indications】 Clears away heat, removes dampness and stops bleeding. Treat cough, diarrhea, dysentery, gonorrhea, and metrorrhagia. 【Usage and Dosage】 For internal use: decoction. Regarding the milkweed introduced in the article, I hope everyone can learn more about it in daily life, so that they can correctly treat the disease when facing it. |
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