The efficacy and function of leopard camphor

The Chinese medicine leopard camphor is a very good Chinese medicinal material. It has a very good effect in regulating the body and is also widely used in medicine. Let’s take a look together.

【English name】 Chinese Litse

[Other names] Litsea cubeba, peeling maple, flower shell firewood

[Source] Medicinal material source: the root and stem bark of the cypress tree of the Lauraceae family.

[Original form] Cinnamomum camphora is an evergreen shrub or small tree, up to 6m in height. The bark is gray-brown with gray-yellow block peeling; young branches are reddish-brown and glabrous, while old branches are dark brown and glabrous; the terminal buds are oval, with obtuse tips, and the scales are glabrous or only hairy on the upper part. Leaves are alternate; petiole is 1-2cm long, with soft hairs on the upper side; leaf blade is leathery, oblong or lanceolate, 5-10cm long, 2-3.5cm wide, with acute apex, cuneate base, entire margin, shiny green above, greenish gray below, glabrous on both sides, pinnate veins, 9-10 lateral veins on each side, midrib slightly raised below, and reticular pattern is not obvious. Dioecious; umbels axillary, peduncles; bracts caducous; tepals 6, equal in length, about 2mm; male flowers have 9-12 stamens, 4-chambered anthers, all introrseally dehiscent; female flowers have nearly spherical ovaries, styles with sparse soft hairs, stigmas with 2 lobes, and degenerate stamens filamentous with long soft hairs. The fruit is spherical or nearly spherical, about 6-8mm in diameter, with a short tip at the apex and a flat receptacle with persistent tepals at the base; the fruit pedicel is about 5mm long and quite stout. The fruit is red at first and turns black when ripe. The flowering period is August-September, and the fruiting period is May of the following year.

[Habitat distribution] Ecological environment: Growing in mountain mixed woods or forest edges, wilderness and ditch edges below 900m above sea level.

【Nature and flavor】 Pungent; bitter; warm

【Meridian】 Stomach; spleen meridian

【Functions and indications】Warms the middle and relieves pain; regulates Qi and promotes the circulation of water. Mainly used for stomach pain and edema

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decoction, 9-30g.

[Discussions by various scholars] "Xinhua Compendium of Materia Medica": Used for edema and stomach pain.

【Excerpt】 Chinese Materia Medica

After reading the above detailed introduction to the effects and functions of leopard camphor, I believe many friends have already known the benefits of leopard camphor. It can be seen that leopard camphor is very beneficial to our human body. If you need it, you might as well give it a try.