The efficacy and function of Tiankuizi [picture]

Traditional Chinese medicine has a history of thousands of years. It appeared at a very early time, and it has very satisfactory effects on the treatment of diseases. There are many types of traditional Chinese medicine. Do you know the medicinal material Tiankuizi [picture]?

【English name】RADIX SEMIAQUILEGIAE

[Other names] Purple-backed sky awl, sky awl, sky awl grass, thousand-year-old mouse shit, golden mouse shit, summer without trace, scattered blood cells

[Source] This product is the dried root tuber of Semiaquilegia adoxoides (DC.) Makino, a plant of the Ranunculaceae family. Dig up in early summer, wash, dry and remove the fibrous roots.

[Properties] This product is irregular short columnar, spindle-shaped or block-shaped, slightly curved, 1 to 3 cm long and 0.5 to 1 cm in diameter. The surface is dark brown to gray-black, with irregular wrinkles and rootlets or rootlet marks. There are often stem and leaf remnants at the top, covered with several layers of yellow-brown sheath-like scales. The texture is soft and easy to break. The bark is white in cross section, while the wood is yellowish white or yellowish brown and slightly radial. It has a faint smell and tastes sweet, slightly bitter and spicy.

【Identification】 (1) Cross section of this product: The cork layer is composed of multiple rows of cells containing brown matter. The cortex is narrow. Phloem broad. The cambium is ring-shaped. The xylem rays are up to 20 rows of cells wide, and the vessels are arranged radially. In some cases, a small medullary part can be seen.

【Nature and flavor】 Sweet, bitter, cold.

[return through meridians] Return to the liver and stomach meridians.

【Functions and indications】 Clears away heat, detoxifies, reduces swelling and resolves stagnation. Used for carbuncles, furuncles, mastitis, scrofula, and snake bites.

【Usage and Dosage】 9-15g.

【Storage】Place in ventilated and dry place to prevent moth.

[Remarks] It is often used in combination with elephant clams, oysters, selfheal, and Scrophularia to treat scrofula; with dandelions, antler frost, etc. to treat mastitis; with honeysuckle, forsythia, and plantain grass to treat sores and carbuncles. It is used for diseases such as liver cancer, breast cancer, lymphoma, etc., and is often used in combination with seven-leaf aconite and August gift.

【Excerpt】 Chinese Pharmacopoeia

[Source] Classification of Herbal Properties

This article introduces to us what Tiankui seeds [picture] are. We know that Tiankui seeds [picture] have very high medicinal effects, but we must remind everyone that Tiankui seeds [picture] generally cannot be eaten indiscriminately, otherwise it will cause serious consequences. I hope everyone will treat it with caution.