Chinese medicine Wuzhao Feng has the effect of relaxing tendons and activating collaterals, promoting blood circulation and relieving pain. It is mainly used for treating injuries from falls or blows, rheumatic pain, spasms of the gastrocnemius muscle, back pain, and chicken claw wind and shivering. Wuzhao Feng, also known as Rubus blinii Levl. in the Rosaceae family, is mainly distributed in Sichuan and Guizhou provinces in China. Now let's learn about the methods of using Wuzhao Feng to treat rheumatic pain!
【Basic Information of Wuzhao Feng】
Source: The whole plant of Rubus blinii Levl. in the Rosaceae family is used as medicine.
Wuzhao Feng is a climbing shrub.
The stem is covered with downward-facing bristles and brown long hairs.
The leaves are alternate, slightly round, 8-13 cm long, 6.5-13 cm wide, palmately 5-lobed, with broad lanceolate lobes, acute at the apex, cordate at the base, with irregular serrations on the margin, smooth and hairless on the upper surface, and densely hairy along the veins on the lower surface. The petiole is 6-10 cm long, covered with fine thorns and long hairs, and the stipule is deeply lobed.
【Cultivation of Wuzhao Feng】
1. Cultivation techniques
Mainly propagated by division. Dig out the new plants growing on the creeping stems of the old plants as seedlings, each with adventitious roots. Plant in spring (March to April) or autumn (September to October), preferably in autumn. Dig holes with a row spacing of 20 cm, plant 2-3 seedlings per hole, cover with soil and press lightly, and apply a thin layer of animal or poultry manure water.
2. Field management
Water the Wuzhao Feng promptly after planting. For autumn planting, cultivate and remove weeds in mid-December of the first year, apply fertilizer once, and remove weeds as needed in May and September to October. After harvesting twice in May and September to October for 3-4 years, shallowly cultivate and apply fertilizers. Fertilizers can be animal or poultry manure water or ammonium sulfate. After continuous harvesting for 3-4 years, it is necessary to change the cultivation site.
