The efficacy and function of hanging dried hemp

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

[Other names] Horse intestines, radish medicine, big horse mulberry, sour jujube vine (Economic Flora of China), tiger hemp (Guizhou Herbal Medicine), bitter bark, vegetable medicine, ridged southern snake vine, big fishing rod (Shaanxi Chinese Herbal Medicine).

[Source] It is the root or root bark of Celastraceae. Available all year round. Wash, peel the root bark and dry it.

[Original form] Vine-like shrub, 5 to 7 meters long. The twigs often have 4 to 6 sharp edges, are reddish brown, shiny, and densely covered with tiny lenticels. The leaves are alternate, broadly ovate or nearly circular, 8-16 cm long, 7-15 cm wide, with short pointed tips and irregularly serrated edges; the petioles are up to 3 cm long, the cymose panicles are terminal, dioecious, 10-20 cm long, and the lower branches are longer than the upper ones; the pedicels are thick and ribbed; the flowers are small, numerous and densely grown, green-white, or yellow-green, in 5 parts; the sepals of male flowers are open, and the petals are oblong; the ovary of female flowers is nearly spherical, and the stigma is 3-4 lobed. The capsule is nearly spherical, about 1 cm in diameter, 3-valved, with 2 seeds in each locule, and a red aril. Flowering period is from April to June. The fruiting period is from August to October.

[Habitat distribution] Growing in mountain jungles or hillsides. Distributed in Henan, Shandong, Anhui, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Guangdong and other places.

[Chemical composition] The leaves contain flavonoids: quercetin, isoquercetin, hyperoside, guajava glycoside and quercetin 3-rhamnosylgalactoside.

[Properties and flavors] ① "Guizhou Herbal Medicine": "It tastes spicy, is cool in nature, and is slightly toxic."

【Function】 ① "Guizhou Herbal Medicine": "clears away heat and relieves rashes, relaxes tendons and activates collaterals, and regulates menstruation."

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decoct in water, 0.5 to 1 liang. For external use: decoct in water for washing or grind into powder for sprinkling.

[Additional prescription] ① To treat measles in children: hang one liang of dried hemp and five qian to one liang of red floating. Wash with simmering water.

【Excerpt】 《*Dictionary》

【Source】 From "Guizhou Herbs"

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