The efficacy and function of black grape juice

Black grape juice is a traditional Chinese medicine. This type of medicine can cover many aspects of disease treatment. Therefore, before choosing black grape juice, you must have a good understanding of it. Let us introduce it in detail below.

【Alias】 Wild grape

[Source] It is the juice that flows out of the young branches of the compound leaf grape of the Vitaceae family. It can be harvested except in winter. Cut the young branches into small pieces, collect the flowing liquid in porcelain or enamel containers and place them in a dry place.

【Original form】 Woody vine. Young branches and petioles have brown soft hairs and long soft hairs. Leaves are alternate. With slender long petioles, the leaves on the same branch vary greatly, mostly oval, 4-9 cm long, with a pointed apex, a broad cordate base, shallowly lobed, deeply lobed or completely cleft, with coarse teeth on the edges and yellow-brown hairs on the underside; palmately compound leaves completely cleft into 3-5 leaflets; the middle leaflet is rhombic, 9-11 cm long, cuneate at the base, with a short petiole; the leaflets on both sides are obliquely ovate. The panicles are opposite the leaves, 5 to 10 cm long, with soft hairs on the axis of the inflorescence; the flowers are small, about 3 mm in diameter; the calyx is disc-shaped and glabrous. The berries are spherical, about 1 cm in diameter, and dark brown.

[Habitat distribution] It grows on hillsides, roadsides or river banks, and often climbs on trees. Distributed in Sichuan, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan and other places.

【Nature and flavor】 Slightly bitter, neutral.

【Functions and indications】 Helps digestion, clears away heat and cools blood. It is used to treat gastrointestinal heat, headache and fever, bone steaming, tuberculosis, red eyes, and epistaxis.

[Usage and Dosage] For internal use: Take the original juice raw, 1 to 3 glasses each time, warm.

【Excerpt】 《*Dictionary》

【Source】 From "Shaanxi Herbs"

The above are some basic functions of black grape juice and the method of consuming black grape juice, so that you will not make mistakes when consuming it and can also maximize the value of black grape juice more correctly.