The efficacy and function of short-stalked Celastrus fruit

As people's living standards improve, they pay more attention to health preservation. Many people know that the Chinese medicinal herb Short-stalked Celastrus fruit is good for the body and can treat many diseases. Let’s learn about it today.

[Source] Medicinal material source: The fruit of Celastrus rosthornianus Loes., a plant of the Celastraceae family.

[Original form] A short-stemmed Celastrus vine-like shrub that can reach 7m in height. Branchlets with large, raised lenticels. Simple leaves are alternate; petiole is 5-15mm long; leaf blade is oblong narrow elliptic or obovate lanceolate, 4-11mm long and 3-6cm wide. Flowers are dioecious; male inflorescences are terminal and axillary, with terminal inflorescences up to 5 cm long, inflorescence axis branches are short, and axillary inflorescences have 1-3 flowers; female inflorescences are all axillary, with 3-7 flowers, and the flowers are yellow-green; male flowers have a cup-shaped disk, stamens are attached to the edge of the disk, and the reduced pistil is short columnar; female flowers have reduced stamens, the ovary is free from the cup-shaped disk, the style is slender, the stigma is 3-lobed, and each cleft has 2 forked branches, and the capsule is nearly spherical, about 1 cm in diameter. There are 3-6 seeds with orange-red aril.

[Habitat distribution] Ecological environment: Grown in mountain jungles or roadsides.

【Functions and indications】Calming the mind and soothing the nerves. Insomnia; dreaminess

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decoction, 6-30g.

【Excerpt】 Chinese Materia Medica

Through the introduction of the above content, we can understand that the Chinese medicine short-stalked Celastrus fruit plays a very important role in many aspects. Proper consumption of short-stalked oriental snakevine fruit has many benefits to our body.