Wu Xie Teng has the function of lowering blood sugar and is applied in clinical medicine. Wu Xie Teng grows in forests or shrubs. It is distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and other places. Can you eat Wu Xie Teng during menstruation? What are the methods for selecting Wu Xie Teng?
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Can You Eat Wu Xie Teng During Menstruation?
No, it is not recommended to use Wu Xie Teng during menstruation. Women's bodies are relatively weak during menstruation, so it is advisable to be cautious.
As long as it is used in the recommended dosage, Wu Xie Teng is generally safe and has no side effects. The safety of Wu Xie Teng during pregnancy and lactation has not been tested. Diabetes patients should only take Wu Xie Teng extract to lower blood sugar under the clinical supervision of healthcare professionals.
Wu Xie Teng has been used for more than 2000 years in India and southern China for the treatment of diabetes. Its leaves are also used for nourishing the stomach, relieving constipation, maintaining moisture, and treating liver diseases.
1. "Practical Chinese Herbal Medicine": The root can eliminate swelling and detoxify, clear heat and cool blood. It is used to treat multiple abscesses, deep abscesses, mastitis, boils, and swollen toxins.
2. "Color Atlas of Common Chinese Herbal Medicine": The tender branches and leaves can relieve pain, promote tissue regeneration, and reduce swelling. It is used to treat gunshot wounds and kill lice.
Methods for Selecting Wu Xie Teng
The dried roots of Wu Xie Teng are cylindrical, with a diameter of 1-3cm, often cut into oblique slices of 2-5mm thickness; the outer appearance is gray-brown, rough, with cracks and pores.
The cut surface of Wu Xie Teng is yellow, with fine small holes in the wood, forming a ring-shaped curved layer, with loose marrow and light brown color. The stems are cylindrical, gray-brown, with pores and covered with fine hairs.
The leaves are opposite, wrinkled and shriveled, and when flattened, they are inverted ovate or ovate-oblong, 3-8cm long and 1.5-4cm wide, with only veins covered with fine hairs; both tender and withered leaves have latex.
The leaf stalk of Wu Xie Teng is 3-10mm long and covered with short hairs. It has a slight bitter taste. The best Wu Xie Teng is characterized by tender branches, abundant leaves, thick and strong roots, yellow cut surface, and no impurities.
The roots of Wu Xie Teng can be harvested all year round, washed, sliced, and dried or used fresh; the branches and leaves can be harvested in spring and used fresh.
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Effects and Functions of Wu Xie Teng
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that Wu Xie Teng has the effects of clearing heat and cooling blood, promoting pus drainage and reducing swelling, relieving pain, and promoting tissue regeneration. It is used to treat rheumatic pain, sore throat, scrofula, breast abscess, ulcers, eczema, unknown swelling and toxins, snake bites, etc.
1. "Practical Chinese Herbal Medicine": The root can eliminate swelling and detoxify, clear heat and cool blood. It is used to treat multiple abscesses, deep abscesses, mastitis, boils, and swollen toxins.
2. "Color Atlas of Common Chinese Herbal Medicine": The tender branches and leaves can relieve pain, promote tissue regeneration, and reduce swelling. It is used to treat gunshot wounds and kill lice.
Pharmacological effects: Oral or intramuscular injection of the alcoholic extract of the leaves in rats can inhibit the hyperglycemia caused by pituitary gland extract, pituitary growth hormone, or adrenocorticotropic hormone.
Precautions: As long as it is used in the recommended dosage, Wu Xie Teng is generally safe and has no side effects. The safety of Wu Xie Teng during pregnancy and lactation has not been tested. Diabetes patients should only take Wu Xie Teng extract to lower blood sugar under the clinical supervision of healthcare professionals.
Prescriptions of Wu Xie Teng
1. Treatment for testicular pain: Soak 60g of Wu Xie Teng and 60g of wild peony root in alcohol, stew for half an hour, and take orally. Additionally, crush and apply dried Lotus corniculatus to the affected area.
2. Treatment for cervical lymph node tuberculosis: Take 30g of Wu Xie Teng, 30g of white powder vine head, and 15g of mouse ear root, decoct in water, and take one dose daily.
3. Treatment for rheumatic pain: Take 45g of Wu Xie Teng and stew with 100g of pork to be taken orally.
4. Treatment for bone ulcers: Take 15g of Wu Xie Teng, 15g of Piper stipulatum root, 15g of Michelia alba, 15g of Picrorhiza kurroa, and 10g of Houttuynia cordata, decoct in water and take orally.
5. Treatment for back and leg rheumatism and pain: Take 30g of Wu Xie Teng, 30g of Plantago asiatica, 10g of Centella asiatica, 15g of Cissus quadrangularis, 15g of Achyranthes bidentata, decoct in water and take orally.
6. Treatment for fresh abscess: Take 15g of Wu Xie Teng head and 15g of Plumeria rubra leaf, decoct and soak in alcohol and take orally.
7. Treatment for early stage abscess and swelling: Take 15g of Wu Xie Teng, 15g of Gaultheria fragrantissima, 15g of Portulaca oleracea, 30g of white powder vine head, and 10g of Picrorhiza kurroa, decoct and drink.
