Acid Vine Wood has the effects of clearing heat, detoxifying, dispersing stasis, and stopping bleeding. It is mainly used to treat red and swollen throat, gum bleeding, dysentery, diarrhea, ulcers, itchy skin, painful hemorrhoids, and injuries from falls. Now let's learn about the effects and functions of Acid Vine Wood and its original form together.
【Effects and Functions of Acid Vine Wood】
Acid Vine Wood has the effects of clearing heat, detoxifying, dispersing stasis, and stopping bleeding. It is mainly used to treat red and swollen throat, gum bleeding, dysentery, diarrhea, ulcers, itchy skin, painful hemorrhoids, and injuries from falls.
1. "Lu Chuan Materia Medica": Anti-inflammatory and bactericidal. Acid Vine Wood is used to treat oral inflammation, pharyngitis, gingivitis, ulcers, etc. It can also detoxify poison from tea, wood fungi, and croton seeds.
2. "Nanning Pharmaceutical Chronicle": Insecticidal, anti-inflammatory, and digestion-promoting. It is externally used for bruises and ulcers. Internally, it is used to treat internal and external hemorrhoids (and for external washing), sore throat, and foot pain (by cooking dog feet).
3. "Common Chinese Herbal Manual for Guangzhou Troops": Disperses stasis, relieves pain, and astringes the intestines to stop diarrhea. It is used to treat bruises, intestinal inflammation with diarrhea, and throat swelling and pain.
【Original Form of Acid Vine Wood】
Acid Vine Wood is a climbing shrub or woody vine, a rare small shrub, growing 1-3 meters tall. The leaves are opposite; the petiole is 5-8mm long; the leaf blade is tough and papery, inverted ovate or elongated inverted ovate, 3-4cm long and 1-1.5cm wide, occasionally up to 7cm long and 2.5cm wide, with a rounded, blunt or slightly concave apex, a wedge-shaped base, entire margins, often with a thin white powder on the back, raised midrib, and inconspicuous lateral veins.
The inflorescence is terminal or axillary, borne on leafless branches from the previous year, 3-8mm long, covered with fine hairs, with 3-8 flowers, and 1-2 whorled bracts at the base; the pedicel is about 1.5mm long, sometimes covered with fine hairs, the bracts are lanceolate or elongated ovate, with marginal hairs, and usually no glandular dots; the flowers are tetramerous, about 2mm long; the calyx is connate at the base up to 1/2 or 1/3, with ovate or triangular equal segments, acute apices, and glandular dots;
The petals are white or yellowish, separate, ovate or elongated ovate, rounded or blunt apices, about 2mm long, with marginal hairs, densely covered with papillate projections inside, and glandular dots; stamens degenerate in female flowers, slightly exceeding the petals in male flowers, connate with the petals at the base, erect filaments, and glandular dots on the back of the anthers.
The pistils degenerate in male flowers, slightly longer than the petals in female flowers, with a bottle-shaped ovary, slender styles, and flattened or somewhat shield-shaped stigmas. The fruits are globose, about 5mm in diameter, with inconspicuous glandular dots. The flowering period is from December to March of the following year, and the fruiting period is from April to June.
