The efficacy and function of wine cake leaves

Wine cake leaves are a very common medicinal material in life. There are many ways to use wine cake leaves, so you can choose them with confidence. Let’s take a look at them together.

[Other names] Mountain orange leaves (Records of Medicinal Herbs in Lingnan), Dogtooth Flower (Chinese Tree Taxonomy), Chicken Claw School (Luchuan Materia Medica), Pagoda Seed, Chicken Claw Fragrance, Chicken Claw Orchid (Nanning City Pharmacopoeia), Beaded Wine Cake Leaves, Beads (Guangdong Chinese Medicine II), Chicken Claw Vine (Chinese Economic Flora), Chicken Claw Wind (Handbook of Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicines in Guangxi Folk)

[Source] It is the leaves of the Annonaceae plant , Annonaceae . Harvest in summer and autumn, wash, and use dried or fresh.

【Original form】 Vine-like shrub. The branches are rough with grayish white, raised lenticels. The leaves are alternate, thinly leathery, oblong or oblong-elliptical, 4-12 cm long, 2-4 cm wide, bare, obtuse or mucronate at the apex, rounded at the base, entire, shiny above, and pink-green beneath. The flowers are yellow-white, growing on a 2-4 cm long pedicel, opposite or nearly opposite to the leaves; there are 3 sepals, ovate, 3-5 mm long, and covered with small soft hairs on the outside; there are 6 petals, in 2 rows, the outer one is larger than the inner one, rectangular or rectangular-lanceolate, 3-5 cm long, 1-1.8 cm wide, obtuse at the apex, and covered with small soft hairs on the outside; there are many stamens, cuneate, the anther locules are linear and outward, and the filaments are thick and fleshy. The fruit is bead-shaped, 2 to 5 cm long. The seeds are spherical, about 5 mm long. Flowering period is June.

[Habitat distribution] It grows in sparse woods or shrubs on hills and seashores, and is distributed in Guizhou, Yunnan, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places. Produced in Guangdong, Guangxi and other places.

[Properties] Dry leaves are mostly broken, thin leathery, shiny on the upper side, green or light brown-green, lighter on the lower side, gray or gray-green, rectangular or oblong-oval, 4-12 cm long, 2-4 cm wide, bald, obtuse or mucronate at the apex, rounded at the base, entire, with a short petiole. The taste is light and the smell is slight.

【Nature and flavor】 Bitter, pungent, warm.

【Functions and indications】 Dispel wind, promote dampness removal, relieve pain and kill insects. Treat rheumatism, bone pain, malaria, edema, trauma, rubella, scabies, and foot rot.

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decocted in water, 0.5-1 liang; or soaked in wine. For external use: decoct in water for washing or mash for application.

[Additional prescription] ① To treat bone pain and skin swelling caused by falls: Crush the wine cake leaves, fry them in an iron pan until they are almost charred, then add good wine and boil it, then drink the wine; apply the residue to the injured area. (Records of Collecting Medicinal Herbs in Lingnan)

【Excerpt】 《*Dictionary》

[Source] From "Records of Collecting Medicinal Herbs in Lingnan"

The effects and functions of wine cake leaves are varied, and we should choose the appropriate way of eating according to different physical symptoms. In life, we can learn more about this when we have free time.