The efficacy and function of bitter bean root

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[Other names] Qintou (Medicinal Plants in Zhongtian Desert Area), snow-sweeping seedling, Chinese milkvetch, mountain sesame, and sweet osmanthus-shaped Chinese milkvetch (Illustrated Description of Major Plants in China, Leguminosae).

[Source] It is the whole herb of Astragalus membranaceus, a plant of the Leguminosae family . Collected in summer and autumn, cut into sections and dried.

[Original form] Perennial herb, 1 to 1.5 meters tall, with deep roots. The stem is erect, much branched, and sparsely pubescent. Leaves are sparse, odd-pinnate compound leaves, with 3 to 5 leaflets, rectangular or strip-rectangular, 8 to 15 mm long, 1 to 5 mm wide, truncated or slightly concave at the apex, cuneate at the base, with short soft hairs on both sides; rachis with short soft hairs; stipules lanceolate. The racemes are axillary, with many, small, sparsely distributed flowers; the peduncle is 2 to 6 cm long; the bracts are ovate-triangular; the calyx is campanulate, covered with short black and white hairs on the outside, 4.5 mm long, with 5 calyx teeth, triangular, about 0.5 mm long; the corolla is pink or white, the keel is purple, the standard petal has no claws, and is slightly longer than the wing petals and keel petals; the ovary is glabrous and sessile. The pod is small, nearly round, 2 to 3 mm long, and contains one seed. Flowering period is from June to July. Fruiting period is July to August.

[Habitat distribution] It grows beside hillside ditches or on riverbed sand, grass slopes, beaches, sandy gravel slopes, and sand dunes. Distributed in Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Shaanxi, Gansu and other places.

[Properties and flavors] "Medicinal Plants in Desert Areas of China": "bitter, slightly cold."

【Functions and indications】 "Medicinal Plants in Desert Areas of China": "It can dispel rheumatism. It can treat rheumatic joint pain and numbness of the limbs."

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decoct in water, 3 to 5 qian.

【Excerpt】 《*Dictionary》

[Source] From "Medicinal Plants in China's Desert Areas".

The above is an introduction to the Chinese medicinal herb bitter bean root. For medicinal herbs that we don't understand, we should learn more about them so that we can make full use of them in our lives and not be at a loss.