The effects and functions of the root of star wood

Traditional Chinese medicine is profound and extensive. There are many medicines that many of us don’t know about but are very helpful for us to treat certain diseases. For example, the root of Chengxingmu is a widely used medicinal material in medicine. It has a strong effect in tonifying the kidney and treating deficiency. In addition, it also plays an important role in the treatment of other diseases. There is a lot to know about the effects and functions of Chengxingmu root.

Other names of the star-shaped tree: false green plum (Illustration of Higher Plants of China), lamp flower tree (Flora of Taiwan), plum-leaf holly, Gangmei, bitter plum root (Daipu, Guangdong), false scale star (Dongguan, Guangdong), scale star wood, sky star wood, Ting scale tree (Hong Kong), star root (Wuzhou, Guangxi).

Effects and functions:

1. It can cure rheumatism, bone pain, colds and colds.

2 Burns: decoct the stems in appropriate amount of water for washing, and grind the leaves into powder and sprinkle on the affected area.

3. Sequelae of polio: 3-8 qian of stems or branches, decocted in water and taken orally.

4 Trauma, fractures, and bleeding: mash the leaves and apply externally.

5. For poisonous snake bites: Mash the dried or fresh leaves and add wine or wine lees to apply hot compress to the affected area, or mash the dry powder with fresh mint leaves and a little wine and apply externally.

6. Sweet in taste, neutral in nature. Enters the liver and kidney meridians. Nourishes the kidneys, moistens the lungs, replenishes the liver, and improves eyesight.

7. Treats liver and kidney yin deficiency, soreness of waist and knees, blurred vision and excessive tears, consumptive cough, thirst, and spermatorrhea.

8. It can improve the body's immunity, replenish qi and strengthen essence, and nourish the liver and kidneys.

9. Regulate blood sugar, lower blood pressure, and treat arteriosclerosis. It can excite brain nerves and promote gastrointestinal motility.

It is called a star tree, up to 15m high. There are often sharp thorns with a circular protruding base on the trunk. The tree is gray-brown in color, and the pith of the branches of the current year is often large and hollow. Odd-pinnate compound leaves are alternate, hard papery to leathery; petioles are 2-4mm long; leaflets are 9-15, ovate, broadly ovate or ovate-oblong, 7-145cm long, 3.5-7cm wide, with acute or short-caudal apex, blunt and slightly concave. Leaflets born on the upper part of the rachis are usually rounded and unequal at the base, while leaflets born on the lower part of the rachis are narrowly cuneate and equal, with smaller, shallowly serrated edges, transparent glandular dots at the tooth gaps, dark green and shiny above, bluish-green below, brown-red on both sides after drying, not hairy, midrib sunken, convex below.