The efficacy and function of Dianchi Begonia

Dianchi crabapple is a kind of Chinese herbal medicine. We can use Dianchi crabapple to treat many diseases, and it also has good health-preserving effects. Therefore, we can use the different medicinal effects of Dianchi crabapple to solve some small problems that bother us in life.

【English name】 fruit of Yunnan Crabapple, Yunnan Crabapple

[Other names] Yunnan crabapple, Yunnan hawthorn

[Source] Medicinal material source: The fruit of Malus dianchiensis, a plant of the Rosaceae family.

[Original form] Dianchi crabapple is a tree, up to 10m tall. The twigs are stout and densely covered with hairs when young, which gradually fall off as they age and are dark purple or purple-brown. Leaves are alternate; petioles are 2-3.5cm long and pubescent; stipules are linear; leaf blades are ovate, broadly ovate to oblong, 6-12cm long, 4-7cm wide, acute at apex, rounded to shallowly cordate at base, with sharp, heavily serrated edges, usually 3-5 shallow lobes on each side of the upper half, nearly glabrous above, densely pubescent beneath. Flowers are bisexual; umbel racemes with 8-12 flowers, peduncle and pedicel densely pubescent; pedicel 1.5-3cm long; flowers white, about 1.5cm in diameter; calyx tube bell-shaped, densely pubescent on the outside; sepals 5 triangular-ovate; petals 5, nearly round, about 8mm long, with short claws at the base; stamens 20-25; styles 5, glabrous at the base. The pear fruit is spherical, 1-1.5cm in diameter, red with white spots, and the calyx lobes are persistent; the fruit pedicel is 2-3cm long. The flowering period is May, and the fruiting period is August-September.

[Habitat distribution] Ecological environment: Growing in mixed woods on hillsides or beside valleys at an altitude of 1600-3800m.

【Nature and flavor】 Sour, sweet; slightly warm

【Entry into Meridians】 Spleen, stomach, liver

【Functions and indications】 Strengthens the stomach, eliminates stagnation, removes blood stasis and relieves pain. It is mainly used to treat food stagnation, abdominal distension and pain, dysentery, diarrhea, hernia, and occipital pain in postpartum women and children.

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decoction, 6-12g. Or as pills.

【Excerpt】 Chinese Materia Medica

Above we introduced what Dianchi Begonia is. We know that Dianchi Begonia is a common Chinese herbal medicine with good health and wellness effects. It has many benefits to the human body and can relieve many symptoms. How about it, do you understand?