The efficacy and function of golden knife vegetable

With the development of society and the close international exchanges, most people who study medicine have been seriously influenced by Western medicine, and fewer and fewer people are studying Chinese medicine, which has resulted in less and less understanding of Chinese medicine. Let’s talk about the effects and functions of the Chinese medicine Glechoma longituba.

[Other names] Pearl wind, stinky Changshan

[Source] The stems and leaves of Callicarpa glabra, a plant of the Verbenaceae family . Available all year round.

[Original form] Shrub, 0.8 to 2 meters high. Branchlets slightly stellate-hairy. The leaves are opposite, papery, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, 10-20 cm long, 3-5 cm wide, with acute apex, narrowly cuneate base, finely serrated edges, glabrous on both sides, densely covered with golden glandular dots on the underside, 12-14 pairs of lateral veins, protruding on the underside; the petiole is about 1 cm long. Cymes are axillary; pedicel 0.5-0.8 cm long, densely covered with short hairs; bracts lanceolate, small; calyx 4 shallowly lobed, calyx teeth obtuse triangular; corolla white, tubular, 4-lobed at the apex; stamens 4, filaments as long as corolla; ovary superior, with glandular dots, 4-chambered. The drupe is spherical, about 3 mm in diameter, and purple.

【Habitat distribution】Grows under forests on hillsides. Distributed in Guangdong, Hunan and other places.

【Nature and flavor】 Sour and astringent, non-toxic.

【Functions and indications】Analgesic and hemostatic. Treats vomiting blood, chest pain, migraine, stomach pain, and bleeding from trauma.

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decoction. 0.3～1 tael. For external use: mash and apply.

[Additional prescription] ① Treat chest pain caused by vomiting blood: 5 qian of Guangdong Callicarpa ovata, 3 qian of Rubia cordifolia, 3 qian of Herba Epimedii, and 1 qian of Imperata cyrtonema. Decoction in water.

【Excerpt】 《*Dictionary》

[Source] From "Hunan Materia Medica".

In general, the effect of golden knife vegetable is quite significant. It is precisely because golden knife vegetable has relatively good health-preserving effects that the application of golden knife vegetable in health-preserving life can be said to be quite high.