The efficacy and function of withered sedge

Chinese medicine has different effects on our body and can regulate our body. Today we will introduce a Chinese medicine: Canguaosu. What are its specific effects and functions? Let’s take a look.

[Other names] Nanmu root (Nanning Pharmacopoeia), Dachan root (Guangxi Medicinal Plant List).

[Source] It is the root , root bark or bark, leaves and seeds of the Lauraceae plant. Available all year round.

[Original form] The Chanko tree, also known as: Chanko wood ginger, thick-skinned nanmu, fragrant gum wood, mountain gum wood, green tung gum, wild fruit wood, cow ear maple, mountain dragon, Chan fruit, and three bitter flowers.

[Habitat distribution] Growing in sparse forests or bushes in mountains. Distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Yunnan and other places.

[Pharmacological action] The volatile oil in the fruit has a specific effect on the central nervous system, similar to chlorpromazine; intraperitoneal injection of its emulsifier 0.15-0.3 g/kg to rats can enhance the sleeping time of pentobarbital, but it has no adrenaline blocking effect. It has a partial antagonistic effect on the hyperactivity and fever caused by mescaline. Another characteristic of it is that it has a synergistic effect with d-amphetamine, which can significantly enhance the temperature-raising effect of d-amphetamine and cause death in animals. The volatile koji itself has low toxicity, and rats can tolerate 0.6 g/kg.

【Nature and flavor】 Bitter, cold.

【Functions and indications】 Treat dysentery, enteritis, rheumatic bone pain, mumps, mastitis, and furunculosis.

[Usage and Dosage] For internal use: Root: decoct in water, 0.5-1 liang. For external use: decoct the skin and leaves in water for washing or mash for application.

[Additional prescription] ① For treating enteritis, diarrhea, trauma, mumps, and carbuncle: 50g to 15g of dried root of Chan Gu. Decoction in water. (Guangzhou Army "Handbook of Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicines")

【Excerpt】 《*Dictionary》

[Source] From "Records of Collecting Medicinal Herbs in Lingnan"

Now you know the function of the withered grass. I didn’t know before that withered grass was such a valuable thing, which shows that our knowledge is not broad enough. So in the future life, learning more about it can be a good way to maintain health. In fact, if you want to maintain your health, there is knowledge everywhere in life.