Dawupa is the root or whole herb of the Rosaceae plant Dawupa, mainly distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou and other places in China. Dawupa has rich medicinal value and has the effects of clearing heat, stopping bleeding, and dispelling wind and dampness. Let's take a closer look at the efficacy and function of Dawupa below.
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【Efficacy and Function of Dawupa】
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that Dawupa has the effects of clearing heat, stopping bleeding, and dispelling wind and dampness. It is commonly used for colds with fever, coughing up blood, nosebleeds, irregular menstruation, external bleeding, dysentery, diarrhea, prolapse of the anus, and rheumatic pain.
1. "Commonly Used Sichuan Chinese Medicinal Herbs": "Root: dispels wind and dampness, stops vomiting, activates blood. Used for vomiting blood due to overexertion, irregular menstruation, foul breath, scrofula, eye opacity after smallpox, and rabies bites. Leaves: used for treating yellow water sores."
2. "Catalogue of Guizhou Medicinal Plants": "Whole plant: clears heat and cools blood, stops bleeding, promotes bone healing. Used for dysentery, prolapse of the anus, irregular menstruation, coughing up blood, and fractures."
3. "Yunnan Chinese Medicinal Herbs": "Clears heat and detoxifies, dispels wind and activates collaterals, stops bleeding and relieves pain. Used for colds, high fever, coughing up blood, rheumatic joint pain, early menstruation, diarrhea, gastroenteritis, dysentery, external bleeding."
4. "Compilation of Chinese Medicinal Herbs": "Clears heat and promotes diuresis. Mainly used for coughing up blood, nosebleeds, rheumatic bone pain, fractures."
Internal use: decoction, 10-30g. External use: appropriate amount, crushed and applied or applied as powder.
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【Morphological Characteristics of Dawupa】
Dawupa is a shrub, 2-3m tall. The stem is thick and densely covered with yellowish hairs and scattered short curved thorns. The leaves are alternate, with leaf stalks 3-6cm long, densely covered with yellow soft hairs;
The stipules are divided into strips; the leaf blades are leathery, nearly circular, 5-16cm in diameter, palmately 7-9 shallowly lobed. The lobes are often 2 shallowly lobed or have notches, with rounded or acute tips, heart-shaped bases, and irregular serrations along the edges;
The upper surface has short hairs and dense small protuberances, and the lower surface is densely covered with yellowish hairs; the primary veins are palmate, 5-7 prominent, and the reticulate veins are distinct. The flowers are in cone-like or corymbose inflorescences, densely covered with yellow hairs;
The bracts are elliptic, 1-1.5cm long, with torn edges; the sepals are ovate, often multi-lobed at the apex, densely covered with yellow hairs on the outside; the petals are slightly longer than the sepals, nearly elliptic, white, with claws;
Numerous stamens; numerous carpels, borne on the elevated receptacle. The aggregate fruit is spherical, up to 1.5cm in diameter, with numerous red berry-like small drupes. Flowering period is from April to June, fruiting period is from August to September.
The immature fruits of Dawupa are light red in April, turn red in July, turn purple in August, and then turn black when fully ripe. The Dawupa plants are larger, bear more fruits, and the fruits are black when fully ripe.
The light red bubbles are not yet ripe, hard, and not sweet. The dark red and purple bubbles have the best taste. The bubbles that are too black, like overly worldly people, are too ripe and the taste becomes bland.
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【Clinical Applications of Dawupa】
1. Treatment of dysentery
Take 3 taels of fresh Dawupa root bark, 2 taels of fresh Longyacao root, and 1 tael of fresh Baijintiao root. Decoct in water and take orally, 3 to 4 times a day, with 2 small wine cups each time.
2. Treatment of coughing up blood and weakness in limbs
Take 2 taels of fresh Dawupa, 1 tael of fresh Bucranium, and 5 qian of Kuihua stalk heart. Boil in water to make a concentrated solution, and take it 4 times a day, with 1 teacup each time.
3. Treatment of irregular menstruation
Take 1 tael each of Dawupa root, Daochusun root, Maocao root, and Jinyinhua vine. Decoct in water and mix with brown sugar, take it 3 times a day.
4. Treatment of fractures (non-open fractures)
Take an equal amount of Dawupa root, wild grape root bark, and Baiweishen. Crush them together, stir-fry with alcohol until hot, first use manual techniques to reset the fracture, then apply the medicine, and then apply a splint, changing it once a day. The dosage depends on the area of the affected area.
