The efficacy and function of sheep dung leaves

After thousands of years of sedimentation and accumulation, the types and quantities of Chinese medicine have become quite astonishing. Therefore, choosing Chinese medicine to treat some difficult and complicated diseases always has a very good effect. Next, I would like to recommend a Chinese medicine, sheep dung leaves.

[Source] Medicinal material source: the stems and leaves of honeysuckle and Viburnum oxyphylla.

[Original form] Viburnum truncatum is an evergreen shrub, up to 2m tall. Young branches are densely covered with gray-brown star-shaped hairs, old branches are brown, and winter buds have no scales. Leaves are opposite; petiole is 5-10mm long; leaves are leathery, leaf blade is elliptic-ovate to oblong, 2-7cm long, 0.8-3.5cm wide, tip is rounded to slightly obtuse, base is rounded, margin is entire, margin is involute, dark green and shiny and glabrous above, covered with grayish white star-shaped felt hairs below, with 5-6 pairs of lateral veins raised below. The cyme is 5-7cm in diameter and has stellate hairs; the peduncle is stout, 1-3cm long, with usually 5 first-level radiating branches, and the flowers are usually born under the second-3rd-level radiating branches; the calyx tube is about 2mm long, and the calyx margin has 5 obtuse teeth; the corolla is white, with a light pink bud, radial, 6-7mm in diameter, and the corolla tube is about 1.5mm long; there are 5 stamens, which are about the same length as the corolla; the style is nearly equal to the calyx teeth. The drupe is oval, about 7mm long, first red and then black when ripe; the core is flat, with 2 shallow grooves on the back and 2 shallow grooves on the abdomen. The flowering period is from March to August, and the fruiting period is August.

【Functions and indications】Hemostasis; bone setting. Major traumatic bleeding; fractures; prevention of influenza

【Usage and Dosage】 For external use: take appropriate amount, grind into powder and apply on the affected area. For internal use: decoction, 15-60g.

【Excerpt】 Chinese Materia Medica

Although the leaves of the goat dung tree have many magical effects, they cannot be eaten casually. We need to use the medicine according to the user's own situation. I hope everyone will not take it indiscriminately to avoid unnecessary consequences.