The efficacy and function of three-leaf tea

As people's research on traditional Chinese medicine deepens, they gradually understand the detailed ingredients in various traditional Chinese medicines and the impact of these ingredients on everyone's health. Below I would like to recommend a kind of Chinese medicine three-leaf tea to you and describe the effects of three-leaf tea in detail. I hope it will be helpful to your study and research.

[Source] Medicinal material source: the whole plant of Sapindaceae.

[Original form] Wavy-leaved Heterocarpus is a large shrub or small tree, up to 5m tall. Branchlets have lens-shaped, slightly crowded lenticels, pubescent. Trifoliate leaves; petiole 6-12.5cm long; terminal leaflets oblong-lanceolate, 8-22cm long or longer, 3.5-7.5cm wide, apex caudate-long pointed, base cuneate, lateral leaflets smaller, ovate, bilaterally asymmetrical, margins shallowly wavy-serrated, upper side hairy along midrib, dorsal side nearly hairless, petiolules 5-15mm long; lateral veins about 10 pairs, raised on both sides, racemose, main axis unbranched, longer than leaves, sometimes nearly as long as or slightly longer than petioles, top of inflorescence axis often drooping, peduncle 1.5-2.5cm long; petals narrowly cuneate, scales deeply 2-lobed; disk nearly hairless; filaments pubescent below. The fruit is nearly spherical, 7-8mm in diameter, and red. The flowering period is from August to September, and the fruiting period is from September to November.

【Habitat distribution】Ecological environment: grows in forests or bushes.

【Nature and flavor】 sweet; bland; neutral

【Functions and indications】 Dispel wind and dampness; detoxify and relieve blood stasis. Mainly used for rheumatic pain; edema caused by nephritis; ascites caused by liver cirrhosis; fractures caused by falls

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decocted in water, 9-15g.

【Excerpt】 Chinese Materia Medica

Three-leaf tea not only has many functions, but also has many ways of consumption in our lives, so it is loved by many people.