What are the effects and functions of the iron maple flower?

Iron bark maple is a traditional Chinese medicine with many health benefits and functions. It can help us strengthen our physical fitness and fight diseases. It can also nourish the spleen and stomach, improve gastrointestinal function, protect the liver and gallbladder, and improve the problem of deficiency heat.

1. Enhance physical fitness

1. Dendrobium can nourish yin and blood. The Qing Dynasty's "Medicinal Properties" said that Dendrobium can nourish the kidney and accumulate essence, nourish stomach yin, and strengthen qi and strength;

2. Dendrobium contains rich polysaccharides. Experiments have shown that Dendrobium polysaccharides have the effect of enhancing immune function and can enhance the phagocytic ability of peritoneal macrophages on chicken red blood cells.

2. Nourishing the spleen and stomach

1. The spleen and stomach play the important role of digesting food and taking in the essence of water and grain to nourish the whole body. They are the source of nutrition. Therefore, whether nutrition is adequate or not mainly depends on the function of the spleen and stomach.

2. Dendrobium is a medicine that benefits the stomach and produces body fluid. It is recorded in "Shennong's Herbal Classic" and "Bencao Zaixin". People call it "gastrointestinal medicine". It is a commonly used medicine for treating epigastric pain and upper abdominal distension.

3. Modern experiments have confirmed that Dendrobium has a good inhibitory effect on Helicobacter pylori, a common pathogen in spleen and stomach diseases, and is helpful in treating Helicobacter pylori-positive diseases such as atrophic gastritis, superficial gastritis, and duodenal ulcers. At the same time, oral administration of Dendrobium decoction can promote the secretion of gastric juice, enhance the stomach's emptying capacity, and help digestion.

3. Protect liver and promote bile secretion

Dendrobium has a good choleretic effect. Doctors of all dynasties have believed that "Dendrobium candidum" has the effect of nourishing liver yin and is an important medicine for treating various liver and gallbladder diseases. It can be used to treat hepatitis, cholecystitis, gallstones and other liver and gallbladder diseases.

4. Clear away heat

1. Deficiency heat, manifested by a group of symptoms such as physical fatigue, dizziness, flushed face, palpitations, cough with little sputum, insomnia and forgetfulness, yellow and red urine, red tongue, and thin pulse.

2. "Supplement to Compendium of Materia Medica" and "Explanation of Materia Medica" respectively record "clears the stomach and eliminates empty heat" and "eliminates empty heat in the stomach and hemorrhoids". Compared with ordinary heat-clearing drugs, the false heat cleared by Dendrobium is completely a false heat, which is characterized by yin deficiency and excessive heat. Pharmacological experiments have shown that Dendrobium can significantly reduce the peak fever and temperature response index of heat-prone rabbits and shorten the heat-prone time.