The efficacy and function of Hubei Rehmannia

The world is full of wonders, and Chinese medicinal materials are also varied and varied. Here I would like to introduce to you a Chinese medicinal material, Rehmannia glutinosa.

【English name】 Henry Rehmannia

[Other names] Huangdihuang, Bergenia

[Source] Medicinal material source: The root of Rehmannia glutinosa of the Scrophulariaceae family.

[Original morphology] Hubei Rehmannia glutinosa is a perennial herb, 15-40cm tall. The whole plant is covered with multicellular long hairs and glandular hairs. Roots slightly thickened. Stem single or multiple. Leaves are mostly basal and rosette-shaped; petioles are 1-6 cm long; leaf blades are elliptic-oblong, 3-18 cm long, pinnately lobed, and the lobes have sharp teeth; stem leaves are very small, lobed to serrated. The raceme is terminal with few flowers; the bracts are leaf-like, gradually decreasing upwards; the pedicel is about 5 cm long, with more than 1/2 of the tube length, 5 calyx teeth, narrowly lanceolate, obtuse at the apex, entire or toothed, and the posterior one is longer; the corolla is light yellow with red spots, the corolla tube is 4-5 cm long, slightly flattened dorsally and ventrally, slightly arched, covered with glandular hairs on the outside, and only hairs on the two wrinkles of the abdomen and the place where the filaments are attached, the upper lip is 1 cm long, 2-lobed, and curled outwards, the lower lip is about 1.5 cm long, 3-lobed, and sparsely hairy on both sides; there are 4 stamens, covered inside. Capsule broad, almost enclosed in persistent calyx. Many seeds. The flowering period is April-May, and the fruiting period is May-June.

【Habitat distribution】Ecological environment: grows on flat land and roadsides.

【Nature and flavor】 Sweet; slightly cold

【Functions and indications】 Cools blood and stops bleeding; clears heat and promotes the production of body fluids. Mainly used for fever, blood heat, nosebleed, hematuria, metrorrhagia, macules, thirst

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decoction, 10-15g.

[Discussions by various scholars] "Xinhua Compendium of Materia Medica": Root: has the functions of nourishing blood, stopping bleeding and strengthening the body. Fresh root juice can be used to stop bleeding from wounds. It can be taken internally for hematemesis and epistaxis. Uterine bleeding.

【Excerpt】 Chinese Materia Medica

Through the above introduction, I found that Hubei Rehmannia has so many pharmacological effects, and it also has good effects on some diseases. In fact, there may be many "treasures" around our lives, but most of the time we don’t have a heart that is good at discovering them.