The efficacy and function of spider fruit stems and leaves

Recently, major TV channels have launched various health programs, and food programs have also introduced special health-preserving dietary therapy methods. All aspects show that the concept of health preservation is gradually deepening in people's understanding. Next, we will introduce a health-preserving medicinal material, the stems and leaves of spider fruit.

[Source] Medicinal material source: The stems and leaves of the long-leaved bellflower of the Campanulaceae family.

[Original morphology] Long-leafed bell grass is a perennial upright or climbing herb with a stem height of up to 3m. The root is carrot-shaped. Usually the whole plant is hairless, hollow, with many long branches that spread out or droop. Leaves are opposite, occasionally in whorls of 3, and have short petioles; leaf blades are ovate, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, 6-15cm long, 1-5cm wide, acuminate at the apex, and finely serrated at the margin. Flowers are usually solitary, terminal and axillary; pedicel or peduncle 1-10cm long; pedicel with a pair of filiform bracts in the upper middle part or at the base of the anther; calyx only attached to the lower part of the ovary, lobes usually 5, far apart, filiform or linear, with branched and slender teeth on the margin; corolla white or light red, tubular-bell-shaped, about 1cm long, 5-6-lobed to the middle, lobes ovate-triangular; stamens 5-6, filaments as long as anthers, filaments base wide and lamellar, margins with long hairs; style glabrous or without hair, stigma (4-)5-6-lobed, ovary (4-)5-6-chambered. The berries are spherical (4-)5-6 chambers, purple-black when ripe, and 5-10mm in diameter. Seeds are numerous and polyhedral. Flowering period is from July to October.

【Nature and flavor】 Sweet; slightly bitter; neutral

【Functions and indications】 Tonifies Qi and replenishes deficiency; stops bleeding by passive stasis; disperses nodules and relieves pain. It is used for cough due to lung fatigue, vomiting blood, metrorrhagia, leucorrhea, scrofula, and hernia.

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decocted in water, 9-15g.

【Excerpt】 Chinese Materia Medica

The above is the relevant knowledge about spider fruit stems and leaves introduced to you. Through the above article, you can clearly understand that spider fruit stems and leaves have many benefits and functions to the human body, so you can use spider fruit stems and leaves to treat some diseases.