The efficacy and function of Tangli

As a traditional Chinese medicine, Tangli has great medicinal value and can treat many diseases. Let’s take a closer look at it below.

[Other names] Du, Gan Tang (The Book of Songs), Duli (Lu Ji's Poetry Commentary), Du Tang (Erya with Guo Pu's annotations), Wild Pear (Compendium of Materia Medica), Earth Pear (Chinese Tree Taxonomy).

[Source] It is the fruit of the Rosaceae plant Pyrus .

[Original form] Deciduous tree, 4 to 10 meters high. The bark is gray-brown and longitudinally fissured; young branches are dark brown, pubescent, and sometimes spiny. Simple leaves are alternate; rhombic-ovate or elliptic-ovate, 4-11 cm long, 2-5 cm wide, with long acuminate tip, broad cuneate base, sharp serrations on the edge, dark green and glabrous above, bright green below, initially pubescent; petiole 2-5 cm long. The flowers are white, 2 to 3.3 cm in diameter, blooming before the leaves, in 8 to 10 flowers in umbels; the pedicels are 1 to 2.5 cm long; the calyx is 5-lobed, the lobes are lanceolate and densely hairy; there are 5 petals, which are obovate. The apex is rounded and the base is narrow; there are many stamens; there are 2 to 3 styles. The pear fruit is spherical, 1 to 1.6 cm in diameter, brown with white spots, and the calyx falls off. Flowering period is from April to May. Fruiting period is October.

[Habitat distribution] It grows wild in the wilderness, at the foot of mountains, on roadsides or beside roads. Distributed in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hubei, Jiangxi, Henan, Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi, Gansu, Shaanxi, Liaoning and other places.

【Chemical composition】 The fruit contains 19.62% sugar and 50.93% water. The leaves contain chlorogenic acid, isochlorogenic acid, neochlorogenic acid and quercetin derivatives. It also contains a lot of protein.

【Nature and flavor】Sour, sweet, cold.

[Meridian] "Yuchu Yaojie": "It enters the hand Taiyin lung and foot Jueyin liver meridians."

【Functions and indications】 Strengthens the lungs and astringes the intestines. Treat cough and diarrhea.

【Excerpt】 《*Dictionary》

[Source] From "Compendium of Materia Medica".

Through the introduction in the above article, I believe everyone has a certain understanding of Tangli. I hope everyone can follow the doctor's advice when taking it, and at the same time pay attention to exercise and enhance their own resistance.