Acid Vine Fruit is the dried and mature fruit of the plant Acid Vine, a member of the Rubiaceae family. It is also known as Acid Tengzi or Xintongzi. It has the effects of nourishing blood and stopping bleeding, and is commonly used for conditions such as blood deficiency and gum bleeding. Let's take a look at the efficacy and effects of Acid Vine Fruit.
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Efficacy and Effects of Acid Vine Fruit
In traditional Chinese medicine, Acid Vine Fruit is believed to have the effects of nourishing blood and stopping bleeding, and is commonly used for blood deficiency and gum bleeding.
Fruit: The taste of the fruit is sweet and sour. It is rich in vitamin C, and can be eaten fresh or decocted alone to strengthen blood. It is used to treat conditions such as gastric acid deficiency, gum bleeding, and loss of appetite.
Branches and leaves: The taste is sour and can be eaten to quench thirst. The roots are used as medicine and have the functions of anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, blood stasis dispersing, pain relief, heat clearing, detoxifying, and astringent. They are used to treat conditions such as sore throat, gum bleeding, spleen deficiency with diarrhea, bruises, and hemorrhoids. The recommended dosage is 9-15 grams when decocted.
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Medicinal Characteristics of Acid Vine Fruit
Acid Vine Fruit is spherical or ellipsoidal, with a diameter of 3-8mm. The surface is green-brown or gray-purple, often wrinkled. The top has a residual stigma, and the bottom is often attached with a 2-5mm long pedicel and small calyx.
The fruit peel is brittle and easy to peel off. The seeds are often covered with brown seed coat, and the kernel is hard. The transverse section is yellowish-white and horny, and the outer side can also be seen with patterns of seed coat embedded in endosperm. It has a faint smell and a mild taste, and chewing it for a long time gives a spicy and numbing sensation.
The berry is spherical, red or purple-black when ripe, and black-brown when dried, with a diameter of 5-6mm. It is smooth or has longitudinal wrinkled ridges and a few glandular spots. It has a faint smell and a sour, sweet taste.
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Medicinal Value of Acid Vine Fruit
1. Pomegranate seeds, Bi Ba, pepper, dried ginger, short-tailed iron thread lotus, small chili, cardamom, black cardamom, acid vine fruit, grass jade plum, large foliate cloud seed, Guangming salt, purple sand, red block sugar, are ground into powder and taken with boiling water. It can promote stomach fire and treat bacon disease.
2. Cinnamon, dried ginger, Bi Ba, pepper, short-tailed iron thread lotus, small chili, acid vine fruit, Awei, purple sand, red sugar, are ground into powder and taken orally. It is used to treat bacon descending into the small and large intestines.
3. White sand, purple sand, acid vine fruit, Artemisia argyi charcoal, etc. are finely ground into powder, made into pills with red sugar, and taken orally. It is used for intestinal obstruction caused by worms.
