What are the medicinal values ​​of fir bark?

Fir bark is a very common Chinese herbal medicine. The bark of this herbal medicine has rich medicinal value. Perhaps for most people who don’t understand Chinese medicine, they don’t know what the medicinal properties are. The medicinal value of fir bark is very high. Every year, the bark is peeled off and dried. The made Chinese medicine is used for decoction or consumption, or for making tea. It can play a very good role. So what are the medicinal values ​​of fir bark?

【source】

Medicinal material source: The inner bark of the trunk of redwood, a gymnosperm plant of the Pinaceae family.

Latin plant, animal and mineral name: Larix potaninii Batalin. [L. thibetica Franch.]

Harvesting and storage: It can be peeled all year round, the skin is scraped off and dried.

[Original form] A tall tree, up to 50m tall, with a chest circumference of 1m. The bark is gray or gray-brown, longitudinally cracked and rough. The twigs are drooping and hairy when young. The annual branches are reddish brown or lavender brown and shiny. Winter buds are oval, brown or dark brown, shiny, with pointed tips of outer bud scales and eyelashes on the edges. The leaves are oblanceolate and narrow, 1.2-3.5cm long, 1-1.5mm wide, with acuminate tips, raised midrib above, 1-3 stomatal lines on each side, and 3-5 stomatal lines on each side along the midrib below. The epidermis has papillary protrusions.

The flowers are unisexual, monoecious, and the cone flowers are solitary at the top of short branches. The cones are erect, cylindrical, 3.5-5cm long, 1.5-2cm in diameter, purple-brown or gray-brown when ripe; the seed scales are nearly square or square-round, truncate or slightly rounded at the tip, slightly incurved at the edges, sparsely covered with short hairs and small tubercle-like protrusions on the back; the bracts are oblong-lanceolate, purple-brown, longer than the seed scales, usually straight, and the exposed part is more than 5mm long.

The seeds are obliquely obovate, light brown with irregular purple markings, and the seed wings are obovate, about 4mm wide. The flowering period is April-May, and the cones mature in October.

【Habitat distribution】

Ecological environment: Grown in mountains at an altitude of 2500-4000m.

Resource distribution: Distributed in Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, Yunnan and other places.

【Nature and flavor】Slightly spicy; warm in nature

【Functions and indications】Stop dysentery and promote qi circulation. Mainly used for dysentery, rectal prolapse, abdominal distension caused by qi stagnation

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decoction, 9-15g.

[Discussions by various scholars] "Sichuan Chinese Materia Medica": Treats dysentery, rectal prolapse, and abdominal distension due to qi stagnation.

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