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As people's research on traditional Chinese medicine deepens, they gradually understand the detailed ingredients in various traditional Chinese medicines and the impact of these ingredients on everyone's health. Below I would like to recommend a Chinese medicine, Smilax glabra [picture], and describe the effects of Smilax glabra [picture] in detail. I hope it will be helpful to your study and research.

【English name】 RHIZOMA SMILACIS GLABRAE

[Source] This product is the dried rhizome of Smilax glabra Roxb. , a plant of the Liliaceae family. Dig up in summer and autumn, remove the fibrous roots, wash and dry; or cut into thin slices while fresh and dry.

[Properties] This product is slightly cylindrical, slightly flat or in irregular strips, with nodular protrusions and short branches, 5 to 22 cm long and 2 to 5 cm in diameter. The surface is yellow-brown or gray-brown, uneven, with hard fibrous root residues, round bud scars at the top of the branches, some have irregular cracks on the outer bark, and have residual scale leaves. Hard texture. The slices are oblong or irregular, 1 to 5 mm thick, with uneven edges; the cut surface is white to light reddish brown, powdery, with visible dot-like vascular bundles and numerous small bright spots; the texture is slightly tough, with dust flying when broken, and feels sticky after being moistened with water. Odorless, slightly sweet and astringent.

【Identification】 The powder of this product is light brown. There are many starch granules. Single granules are spherical, polygonal or square, with a diameter of 8-48μm. The hilum is fissure-shaped, star-shaped, trident-shaped or dot-shaped. Layers can be seen in large granules. Compound granules are composed of 2-4 sub-granules. Calcium oxalate needle crystal bundles exist in mucous cells or are scattered, with a length of 40 to 144 μm and a diameter of about 5 μm. The stone cells are oval, square or triangular, with a diameter of 25 to 128 μm, and fine pores and grooves; there are also dark brown stone cells, which are long and narrow, with a diameter of about 50 μm, and the walls are extremely thick on three sides and thin on one side. The fibers are in bundles or scattered, with a diameter of 22 to 67 μm. Bordered pits are common in vessels and tracheids, and bordered pits are mostly elongated into ladder shapes.

[Processing] Remove impurities; if not sliced, soak, wash, soak thoroughly, cut into thin slices, and dry.

【Nature and flavor】 Sweet, light, neutral.

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

【Functions and indications】Dehumidifying, detoxifying, and unblocking joints. It is used for limb cramps and muscle and bone pain caused by damp-heat stranguria, leucorrhea, carbuncle, scrofula, scabies, syphilis and mercury poisoning.

【Usage and Dosage】 15～60g.

【Storage】Place in ventilated and dry place.

【Excerpt】 Chinese Pharmacopoeia

[Source] "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica"

Through the detailed introduction of the effects of Wild Smilax glabra [Picture] in this article, we can learn about the major effects of Wild Smilax glabra [Picture]. These effects are indeed a good way to regulate the body for people with poor physical constitution and low resistance. Everyone can try it.