The efficacy and function of white chicken shit vine

White chicken shit vine is a traditional Chinese medicine. It has high medicinal value and has a good health-care effect on some diseases. In our lives, many medicines use white chicken shit vine as the main raw material, but we still need to pay attention to many taboos when taking white chicken shit vine.

[Other names] Stinkweed, stinking stem, and wind-welcoming vine (Illustrated Catalogue of Plant Names and Realities).

[Source] It is the root or whole herb of the Rubiaceae plant Acanthopanax pubescens . Available all year round.

【Original form】 Vine-like shrub. Branchlets densely white pubescent. The leaves are opposite, petiolate, ovate, ovate-rectangular to lanceolate, 5-7 cm long, 3-4.5 cm wide, gradually pointed at the apex, heart-shaped at the base, densely covered with white pubescence on both sides; stipules are ovate-lanceolate and fall off when old. The panicles are axillary and terminal, branched into scorpion-shaped cymes; the flowers are white-purple and sessile; the calyx is narrowly bell-shaped, about 3 mm long; the corolla tube is 7 to 10 mm long and covered with powdery soft hairs. The fruit is spherical and yellow. Flowering period is autumn.

[Habitat distribution] Grown under forests and in shady and wet places by rivers. Distributed in Guangxi, Guangdong, Guizhou and other places.

【Nature and flavor】 "Guizhou Folk Medicine": "neutral in nature, sweet in taste."

【Functions and indications】 Treat jaundice, dysentery, food accumulation, lumps in the stomach, and amenorrhea.

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decoct in water, 3 to 5 qian.

[Additional prescription] ① Treat jaundice: 2 to 3 liang of white chicken shit vine root, half a liter of soybeans. Grind them into paste and cook them for drinking. (Guizhou Folk Medicine)

【Excerpt】 《*Dictionary》

【Source】From 1. "Guizhou Folk Medicine".

The above is an introduction to White Chicken Shit Vine. Through this introduction we can understand that White Chicken Shit Vine has high medicinal value and can effectively relieve many diseases, but remember not to take it indiscriminately.