The efficacy and function of hairy-leaf yellow wolfberry

Although Western medicine and Western drugs are more common nowadays, people still often believe that diseases can only be cured by taking Chinese medicine, because Chinese medicine can cure the root cause. Hairy-leafed Chinese wolfberry is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine. Let’s take a look at some common knowledge about it.

[Source] Medicinal material source: the root or stem bark of the Juglandia pubescens plant of the Juglandaceae family.

[Original form] Evergreen or semi-evergreen small tree, 5-7m high. The twigs are light gray-brown, densely covered with short soft hairs, and have many and prominent lenticels. Even-pinnate compound leaves, with 2-4 pairs of leaflets, rarely 5 pairs, the leaflets born on the upper part of the rachis are larger and longer than those on the lower part; leaf blades are leathery, broadly elliptic-ovate or oblong, 7-15cm long, 3-7cm wide, obtuse or slightly concave or sometimes acute at the apex, oblique at the base, entire, with glands on the upper side, only the midrib is pubescent, and densely pubescent below. Flowers are unisexual and monoecious; male catkins are multiple, forming a paniculate inflorescence bundle; male flowers are dense, with pedicels and bracts, bracts are 3-lobed, usually with 10 stamens, and the connective has a small tip extending from the anther; female catkins are solitary or born at the tip of the male inflorescence bundle, female flowers are almost sessile, ovary is inferior, and 2 carpels are fused. The infructescence is pendulous, 13-18cm long, densely covered with short soft hairs; the fruit is spherical, nut-shaped, about 4mm in diameter, with 3-lobed bracts attached to the fruit near the middle, with developed fruit wings, and the base of the bracts and the fruit are densely covered with yellow bristles. The flowering period is February-March, and the fruiting period is April-May.

[Habitat distribution] Ecological environment: Growing in sparse woods on mountainsides or sunny slopes of valleys at an altitude of 300-1400m.

【Nature and flavor】 Astringent; Cool

【Functions and indications】Astringent; antidiarrheal; hemostatic. Mainly used for chronic diarrhea, dysentery, rectal prolapse, and bleeding from trauma

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decoction, 9-30g. For external use: appropriate amount, grind into powder and sprinkle.

【Excerpt】 Chinese Materia Medica

As a common Chinese medicinal material, Lycopodiella vulgaris is often forgotten by people. In fact, its effects and functions are beyond your imagination. As long as you are good at eating it and use the right method, I believe it will be of great help to your body.