The medicinal value of the bird-free tree

The bird-free tree is a shrub, and because it has thorns, it is called the "bird-free tree". Of course, although this tree has many thorns, the Hundred Birds Tree also has certain medicinal value. In traditional Chinese medicine, it can be used as a medicinal material. This is because the Hundred Birds Tree has many medicinal values ​​such as dispelling wind, detoxifying, and reducing swelling. Next, I will introduce to you some relevant knowledge about why birds never alight from trees!

1. Original form

A thorny shrub, sometimes vine-like, 1 to 4 meters high, with thorns less than 4 mm long, broad and flat at the base, and usually curved at the tip. Leaves are alternate; petioles are 25-40 cm long; stipules and petioles are fused at the base, with truncated or oblique apex; leaves are tripinnate, 60-100 cm long; rachis and pinnae axis are sparsely covered with fine spines, each pinna has 5-9 leaflets, each node of the rachis has a pair of leaflets, leaflets are ovate-oblong to ovate, 4-11 cm long, 2-5 cm wide, acuminate at the apex, rounded or cordate at the base, slightly oblique, sparsely covered with small spines on both sides, densely covered with short soft hairs on the underside, with irregular serrations on the edges, and about 6 pairs of lateral veins. The inflorescence is terminal, a large panicle composed of many umbels, up to 50 cm long, with short soft hairs or no hairs on the main axis and branches, and sparsely covered with hooked short spines; the umbel is 2-4 cm in diameter; the peduncle is 1-5 cm long, with spines and short soft hairs; the pedicel is 1-1.5 cm long, with fine spines and coarse hairs; the bracts are ovate-lanceolate, with long pointed tips, 2-4 mm long; the bracteoles are linear, densely hairy on the outside; the edge of the calyx tube has 5 triangular teeth; the flowers are white, about 4 mm in diameter, with 5 petals; the ovary has 5 chambers, 5 styles, separated and curved outwards. The drupe is spherical, malt-shaped, black, about 4 mm in diameter, with 5 edges and a necessary style. The flowering period is from August to September, and the fruiting period is from September to November.

2. Properties of medicinal materials

The roots are cylindrical, often branched, curved, 30~45 cm long, 0.5~2 cm in diameter, with a yellowish brown or grayish yellow surface, and the cork is easy to fall off, the fallen part is dark brown or grayish brown, with longitudinal wrinkles, transversely raised lenticels and round lateral root marks. It is hard, easy to break, powdery, with dark grey bark in cross section, greyish yellow or greyish white wood, and numerous small holes (ducts). Slight smell, slightly bitter and spicy taste.

3. Efficacy and Function

Dissipate blood stasis; dispel wind; promote dampness; detoxify. It is mainly used to treat damp-heat jaundice, traumatic injury, rheumatic pain, stranguria, dysentery, edema, leucorrhea, headache, epigastric pain, sore throat, mastitis, scrofula, and unknown swelling.