The efficacy and function of sorghum leaves

Although Western medicine and Western drugs are more common nowadays, people still often believe that diseases can only be cured by taking Chinese medicine, because Chinese medicine can cure the root cause. Sorghum bubble leaves are a kind of traditional Chinese medicine. Let’s take a look at some common knowledge about sorghum bubble leaves.

【English name】leaf of Lambert Raspberry

【Source】 Medicinal material source:

[Original form] Sorghum sorghum is a semi-deciduous vine-like shrub, 1-3m high. The branches are ridged and have scattered curved hooked thorns; the twigs are sparsely covered with fine hairs. Simple leaves are alternate; petioles are 2-4cm long, sparsely covered with yellow-white soft hairs and scattered with barbed spines; stipules are free, deeply linearly lobed with fine soft hairs, and often fall off; leaf blades are ovate or broadly ovate, 7.5-12cm long, 5-10cm wide, acuminate or mucronate at the apex, cordate at the base, with distinct 3-5 lobes or wavy edges, with fine serrations, densely covered with yellow soft hairs along the veins on the upper side, densely covered with yellow-white soft hairs on the lower side, and scattered with barbed spines. There are many flowers, densely packed into panicles, with the axis, pedicels and calyx sparsely covered with grayish-white short soft hairs and orange glandular dots; there are 5 petals; white, oval, and almost as long as the sepals. The aggregate fruit is spherical, 8-10mm in diameter, and red when ripe. The flowering period is July-August, and the fruiting period is September-November.

[Habitat distribution] Ecological environment: Grown in the shade and wet places of low-altitude hillsides, valleys or roadside bushes, or on the edge of forests and lawns.

【Nature and flavor】 sweet; bitter; neutral

【Entry】 Lung; Liver meridian

【Functions and indications】 Clears heat and cools blood; detoxifies and treats sores. It is mainly used for colds and fevers; coughing up blood; blood in the stool; metrorrhagia; traumatic bleeding; scrofula ulcers; skin erosions; impetigo

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decocted in water, 9-15g. For external use: Apply appropriate amount, crush fresh product or grind into powder and sprinkle on the affected area.

[Additional prescription] ① To treat bleeding from external injuries: soak an appropriate amount of fresh sorghum leaves, mash them and apply externally. (Jiangxi Herbal Medicine) ② Treat coughing up blood due to lung disease: 50 cents of sorghum leaves, 1 tael of crystal sugar. Decoction in water, take once before breakfast and dinner. (Zhejiang Tianmu Yam Plant Catalogue)

【Excerpt】 Chinese Materia Medica

The above is the introduction to sorghum leaves. I believe you will understand it after reading it. After knowing the effects and functions of sorghum leaves, you can adjust them according to your own physical condition.