Sour Vine Wood, Chinese medicine name, has the effects of clearing heat, detoxifying, dispersing stasis, and stopping bleeding. It is commonly used for red and swollen throat, gum bleeding, dysentery, diarrhea, ulcers, itchy skin, hemorrhoids, and injuries. Below is a detailed explanation of the uses of Sour Vine Wood in traditional Chinese medicine!
[Detailed Explanation of the Uses of Sour Vine Wood in Traditional Chinese Medicine]
The most useful part of Sour Vine Wood is its roots and leaves.
(1) According to the "Nanning Medicinal Plant Records," Sour Vine Wood has the functions of killing parasites, reducing swelling, and aiding digestion.
(2) It is used externally to treat injuries, sores, and ulcers. When taken internally, it can treat both internal and external hemorrhoids, sore throat, and foot pain.
(3) When boiled and consumed as a soup, it can treat sore throat, gum bleeding, clearing heat, detoxifying, and stopping bleeding.
(4) When the leaves are crushed and applied externally, they can treat itchy skin, swollen and painful hemorrhoids, and injuries from falls.
[Introduction to Sour Vine Wood]
Sour Vine Wood is a climbing shrub or vine, a small shrub that grows 1-3m tall. The leaves are opposite; leaf stalks are 5-8mm long; leaf blades are tough and paper-like, inverted egg-shaped or long oval inverted egg-shaped, 3-4cm long and 1-1.5cm wide, occasionally up to 7cm long and 2.5cm wide, with rounded, blunt or slightly concave tips, wedge-shaped base, entire margins, thin white powder on the back, raised midrib, and inconspicuous lateral veins.
Inflorescences are cymose, axillary or lateral, borne on leafless branches from the previous year, 3-8mm long, covered with fine hairs, with 3-8 flowers, and 1-2 whorls of bracts at the base; flower stalks are about 1.5mm long, sometimes covered with fine hairs, bracteoles are lanceolate or elongate oval with hairy margins, usually without glands; flowers are tetramerous, about 2mm long; calyx is united at the base to about 1/2 or 1/3, lobes are ovate or triangular with acute tips and glandular dots;
Petals are white or yellowish, separate, ovate or elongate oval with rounded or blunt tips, about 2mm long, with hairy margins and densely covered with nipple-like protrusions inside, and glandular dots; stamens degenerate in female flowers and slightly exceed the petals in male flowers, their filaments are erect, and the anthers have glandular dots on their dorsum.
Carpels degenerate in male flowers and are slightly longer than the petals in female flowers, the ovary is bottle-shaped, the stigma is slender, and the stigma is flattened or somewhat shield-shaped. The fruit is globose, about 5mm in diameter, with inconspicuous glandular dots. The flowering period is from December to March of the following year, and the fruiting period is from April to June.
[Images of Sour Vine Wood]
