"Acid Vine Fruit" is a wild fruit in rural areas and a traditional Chinese medicine in the eyes of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners. It can be used to treat blood deficiency, gum bleeding, and more. So what are the specific values of acid vine fruit?
Acid Vine Fruit
What is Acid Vine Fruit?
We all remember when we were young, we would pick various wild fruits, including acid vine fruit.
Acid vine fruit is also called acid strong fruit, acid vine head, letter tube fruit, and salty acid fruit.
Deciduous vine-like or vine, 1-3 meters tall. Branches are gray or reddish-brown in color and bare. Leaves are alternate; papery;
Ovate to narrowly rectangular, 3-6 cm long, 1-2 cm wide, blunt or rounded at the apex, wedge-shaped at the base, entire margin, and bare on both sides;
Petioles are about 5 meters long.
The Effects and Functions of Acid Vine Fruit
It can treat sore throat, gum bleeding, spleen deficiency diarrhea, bruises, and hemorrhoids.
1. Anti-inflammatory and antibacterial:
It can treat oral inflammation, pharyngitis, gingivitis, ulceration, etc. It can also detoxify the poison of big medicine tea, wood fungus, croton, etc.
2. Insecticidal, anti-inflammatory, and digestion:
It can be used externally to treat bruises, ulcers, and internally to treat both internal and external hemorrhoids (and wash externally), sore throat, and athlete's foot pain (cook with dog feet).
3. Blood stasis relieving pain, astringent and stopping diarrhea:
It can treat bruises, enteritis, diarrhea, and throat swelling and pain.
Usage and Dosage of Acid Vine Fruit
Oral administration: Decoction, 3-5 qian (about 9-15 grams); or juice.
External use: Decoction for washing or gargling.
Habitat Distribution of Acid Vine Fruit
Ecological environment: It grows in grass, shrubs, or under the forest at an altitude of 100-1800 meters.
Resource distribution: It is distributed in Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi, Yunnan, and other places.
Application of Acid Vine Fruit in Prescriptions
Taste and nature: Acid and sweet, neutral.
Functions and indications: It strengthens and nourishes blood. It is used to treat gastric acid deficiency and loss of appetite.
Prescription: It is used to treat gastric acid deficiency and gum bleeding: 2 to 3 qian (about 6-9 grams) of fresh acid vine fruit. Decoction with water and take orally.
