What are the medicinal values ​​of Acanthopanax cortex?

Most people may not have heard of Acanthopanax Cortex, which is a very common medicine. Acanthopanax Cortex itself can eliminate rheumatism, nourish the liver, and increase kidney yang. In the face of many problems such as fractures and bruises that people often encounter nowadays, you can take Acanthopanax Cortex to treat various diseases. In Compendium of Materia Medica, it is mainly helpful for men with insufficient yang and weak kidney yang. So what are the medicinal values ​​of Acanthopanax Cortex?

【Effects and functions of Acanthopanax cortex】:

Eliminate rheumatism; nourish the liver and kidneys; strengthen the tendons and bones; and activate blood circulation. It is used to treat wind-cold-dampness arthralgia; pain in the waist and knees; weakness of tendons and bones; slow walking; physical weakness; bruises; fractures; edema; athlete's foot; and dampness and itching under the genitals.

① "Ben Jing": It is used to treat hernia in the heart and abdomen, abdominal pain, replenish qi to treat lameness, inability to walk in children, and carbuncle and ulcer.

② "Bie Lu": It is used to treat male impotence, subscrotal dampness, residual urine, female vaginal itching and waist and spine pain, pain in both feet, numbness, rheumatism, weakness of the five meridians, replenishing the middle and benefiting the essence, strengthening the tendons and bones, and strengthening the will.

③ "Materia Medica": It can break up and expel evil wind and blood, paralysis of the limbs, wind damage, soft feet, buttocks and waist, treat long-term blood stasis in the skin and muscles, treat arthralgia and dampness and internal deficiency, treat weakness and emaciation, and children under three years old cannot walk.

④ "Bencao Gangmu" (Bencao Gangmu): Improves eyesight, relieves gas, treats stroke and joint spasms, and replenishes the five kinds of fatigue and seven kinds of injuries.

⑤ "Compendium of Materia Medica": Treats rheumatism, paralysis and arthritis, and strengthens muscles and bones.

⑥ "Bencao Zaixin": It can resolve phlegm and dampness, nourish the kidney and benefit the essence, remove wind and eliminate water, treat beriberi and low back pain, and cure sores, scabies and other poisons.

⑦ "Shaanxi Chinese Herbal Medicine": Promote blood circulation and reduce swelling. Treat rheumatic joint pain, scrotal eczema, trauma, edema, and difficulty urinating. '

⑧ "Yunnan Chinese Herbal Medicine": Treats injuries from falls, fractures, sores, and malaria.

The price of Acanthopanax Cortex itself is very high, but in life these are all very good Chinese medicines. Although these Chinese medicines are often known to us, we still have to use them under the doctor's instructions. We should not use the medicine without authorization. If the right medicine is not used, it is likely to cause opposite side effects.