The efficacy and function of water hemp scales

The scaly water hemp can not only supplement the nutritional elements of the human body, but also help regulate various functions of the body. It also has high medicinal value. Today, I will take you to learn about the scaly water hemp.

[Source] Medicinal material source: the whole plant of Waterhemp scaly of the Urticaceae family.

[Original morphology] Shrub, 1-2m high, with fleshy prickles and adnate short soft hairs on stems, twigs and petioles. Leaves are alternate; petiole 2-7cm long; stipules broadly lanceolate; leaf blade thin papery, broadly ovate to cordate, 6-16cm long, 4-12cm wide, with pointed or mucronate apex, rounded to cordate base, dentate margin, strigose above, densely brown-gray felt below; 3 basal veins, 3-4 pairs of lateral veins. Monoecious and in the same order; inflorescence borne on current year branches and old branches, two to three times dichotomously branched, each branch with a spherical cyme at the top; male tepals and stamens 3, rarely 2, reduced pistil obovate; female flowers obovate, tepals fused into a tube, covering the ovary but clearly separated from the ovary, with 4 teeth at the apex. Achenes are pear-shaped, orange-red, turning brown when dry. The flowering period is summer and autumn, and the fruiting period is autumn.

[Habitat distribution] Ecological environment: Grown in shady and moist thickets on both sides of stream valleys at medium to high altitudes.

【Nature and flavor】 Sweet; slightly bitter; cool

【Functions and indications】Hemostasis; promoting blood circulation. Main trauma bleeding; traumatic injury

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decoction, 6-15g. For external use: appropriate amount, crush the fresh product and apply; or grind the dry product into powder and mix with the mixture.

[Discussions by various scholars] "Xinhua Compendium of Materia Medica": The whole plant has the function of stopping bleeding. Used for bruises and bleeding from knife wounds.

【Excerpt】 Chinese Materia Medica

Through the introduction in the above article, I believe everyone has a certain understanding of scaly water hemp. I hope everyone can follow the doctor's advice when taking it, and at the same time pay attention to exercise and enhance their own resistance.