The efficacy and function of June Snow

Traditional Chinese medicine is very helpful in treating certain diseases, so you can feel free when choosing herbs. Serissa serrata is a medicinal herb that is not unfamiliar to us. Do you know its effects and functions? Let's take a look.

【Alias】

White horse bone, Gypsophila paniculata [Jiangsu, Guangdong], roadside ginger, Gypsophila paniculata, roadside thorn, chicken bone firewood

【source】

Available all year round. Wash and use fresh or cut into sections and dry.

[Original form]

An evergreen small shrub, usually 1 meter high, with many branches, slender roots and yellow bark. The branches are thick, grayish white or blue-gray, the young branches are slightly hairy, and have a foul smell when rubbed. The leaves are opposite or clustered on short branches, nearly leathery, obovate, elliptical or oblanceolate. Small white flowers bloom in August. The drupe is small and spherical.

【Nature and flavor】

Light, slightly spicy, cool.

【Function and indications】

Dispel wind and relieve exterior symptoms, clear away heat and dampness, relax muscles and activate collaterals. Used for colds, coughs, toothaches, acute tonsillitis, pharyngitis, acute and chronic hepatitis, enteritis, dysentery, infantile malnutrition, hypertension headaches, migraines, rheumatic joint pain, and leucorrhea; the ashes of the burned stems can be used as eye drops to treat cataracts.

【extract】

National Compendium of Chinese Herbal Medicine

I believe that friends who were not very clear about June Snow at the beginning should now have mastered the relevant knowledge about June Snow. I hope this article can be helpful to you.