"Wu Xue Teng", also known as Ram's Horn Vine, its extract is used to treat diabetes. Today, the editor of Traditional Chinese Medicine Network will introduce the medicinal value of each type of vine medicine, as follows:
Wu Xue Teng
1. Loofah Vine
Loofah vine is used to treat sinusitis. Take the loofah vine near the root, burn it to ash, grind it into powder, and take 10 grams per dose with yellow wine. Take it 2-3 times a day. This formula has certain effects on nasal congestion. Nasal congestion is characterized by turbid and runny nose, with heat being a prominent symptom. Although there is a distinction between deficiency and excess in the diagnosis of this condition, deficiency-cold type is less common in clinical practice, and most cases are characterized by underlying deficiency and apparent excess or underlying cold and apparent heat.
2. Cucumber Vine
Cucumber vine can be used to treat epilepsy. Take 700 grams of mature cucumber vine, decoct it in water and drink it for 2 days, continuously for 1 week.
3. Chicken Blood Vine
Chicken blood vine invigorates the tendons and activates the collaterals. It has a bitter and slightly sweet taste, and is warm in nature. It can nourish and invigorate the blood, and promote the circulation of the tendons. It is used for irregular menstruation and joint pain. It has certain effects on lumbago, weakness of the knees, numbness of the tendons and bones, and rheumatic pain.
4. Wu Xue Teng
Wu Xue Teng can lower blood sugar. It is also known as Ram's Horn Vine. Its extract is used to treat diabetes. It can reduce the desire for sweets. Wu Xue Teng not only lowers blood sugar, but also helps repair damaged cells in the pancreas, thereby improving insulin secretion.
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5. Night-Blooming Cereus Vine
Night-blooming cereus vine tonifies the liver and nourishes the essence. It is used for deficiency of qi and blood, premature graying of the hair, dryness of the intestines, and constipation. Night-blooming cereus vine, along with sour jujube kernel, cedar kernel, and longan flesh, can be used to treat neurasthenia.
6. Caulis Spatholobi
Caulis Spatholobi balances and strengthens the body. It has anti-cancer, strengthening, and balancing effects, can improve the body's immune function, prevent the metastasis of cancer cells, and rapidly kill tumor cells without damaging normal cells.
7. Pumpkin Vine
Pumpkin vine removes dampness and relieves pain. A patient suffered from toothache and rheumatic pain, causing great discomfort. She heard that soaking pumpkin vine roots in alcohol with brown sugar can reduce inflammation and relieve pain. She also heard that soaking cowpea roots in alcohol with sugar can remove dampness and relieve pain. She tried making pumpkin vine wine and drank it for over a month, and both pains were alleviated.
Pumpkin Vine
8. Honeysuckle Vine
Honeysuckle vine can clear heat and detoxify. It is also known as Japanese Honeysuckle. It has a sweet taste and a cool nature, and has the function of clearing heat and detoxifying. It is suitable for fever and abscesses caused by acute heat diseases. Take 60 grams of fresh honeysuckle vine and 30 grams of plantain, decoct them in water and drink the decoction once a day.
9. Sweet Potato Vine
Sweet potato vine stops bleeding and detoxifies. It can be used for hemoptysis, hematochezia, epistaxis, or uterine bleeding. Take 30 grams of sweet potato vine and 15 grams of Shenhecao, decoct them in water and drink the decoction as tea. For acute gastroenteritis, take 30 grams of sweet potato vine and 15 grams of dried peach blossoms, decoct them in water and drink the decoction warm, 2-3 times a day.
