Acid Vine Fruit, Chinese medicine name, is the fruit of the plant Acid Vine, which belongs to the Rubiaceae family. It has the effects of nourishing blood and stopping bleeding, and is commonly used for blood deficiency, gum bleeding, and other conditions. Now let's take a closer look at the efficacy and effects of Acid Vine Fruit.
【Properties and Channels】
Taste: sweet, sour; nature: neutral; channels: stomach.
【Efficacy and Effects】
Acid Vine Fruit has the effects of nourishing blood and stopping bleeding, and is commonly used for blood deficiency, gum bleeding, and other conditions.
Root and leaves: promote blood circulation and relieve pain, reduce inflammation, stop diarrhea. The root is used for dysentery, enteritis, indigestion, sore throat, and injuries from falls. The leaves are used externally to treat injuries from falls and itchy skin.
Fruit: strengthen the body, nourish blood. It is used for amenorrhea, anemia, and gastric acid deficiency. The fruit can be eaten, and veterinarians use the root and leaves to treat bloating and thirst caused by cow injuries and heat diseases.
"Hainan Island Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicine Manual": "The fruit and leaves can treat vitamin C deficiency and anemia."
"Crystal Pearl Materia Medica": Acid Vine Fruit kills insects and raises gastric temperature. The fruit is pale red in color and makes a sound when shaken, resembling beans.
"Morphological Metaphor": Acid Vine Fruit has slender stems, gray leaves that are small and rough, small blue and red flowers, and fruit that resembles frosted beans with a sour and sweet taste. It is effective in treating insect diseases.
"Calculating the Wheels of the Sun and Moon": Acid Vine Fruit has a pungent and sharp taste, kills insects, treats gray edema, and has a sharp nature that can cause diarrhea.
2. "Lu Chuan Materia Medica": anti-inflammatory, antibacterial. It treats stomatitis, pharyngitis, gingivitis, ulcers, etc. It also detoxifies the poison of big tea, wood mushrooms, and croton seeds.
【Usage and Dosage】
Oral administration: decoction, 9-15g.
【Prescriptions and Applications】
1. Treatment for gastric acid deficiency, gum bleeding: 6-9g of fresh Acid Vine Fruit, decocted and taken orally. ("Practical Chinese Herbal Medicine Illustrated Dictionary")
2. Treatment for loss of appetite: 9g of Acid Vine Fruit, decocted and taken orally. ("Practical Chinese Herbal Medicine Illustrated Dictionary")
3. Deworming powder: 100g of iron rod hammer, 550g of Acid Vine Fruit, 200g of Hezi, 100g of Muxiang, 100g of Zangchangpu, 50g of musk. Except for musk, grind the other six ingredients into fine powder, sift, and mix well with musk powder. It is effective in deworming and is used for headworms, toothworms, internal parasites, roundworms, and skin parasites. It has a special effect on malarial parasites and malarial intestinal colic. Take with boiling water.
4. Pomegranate seeds, Bi Ba, pepper, dried ginger, short-tailed iron wire lotus, small chili, nutmeg, cardamom, Zanthoxylum, Acid Vine Fruit, Shumetou, Daye Yunshi, Guangming salt, Zihousha, red rock sugar, grind together and take with boiling water. It can increase gastric fire and treat bacon disease.
5. Seven-ingredient Acid Vine Fruit powder: Acid Vine Fruit, Awei, purple ore, garlic, Tianxianzi, nutmeg, Guangzao, etc. Grind into fine powder. Take with Qianghuo decoction to treat heartworm disease.
6. Cinnamon, dried ginger, Bi Ba, pepper, short-tailed iron wire lotus, small chili, Acid Vine Fruit, Awei, Zihousha, rock sugar. Grind into powder and take orally. It is used to treat bacon descending into the large and small intestines.
7. White Housha, Zihousha, Acid Vine Fruit, Niuzihaotan, etc. Grind into fine powder, mix with rock sugar, and take orally. It is used for worm accumulation and lump.
