Chinese herbal medicine "sour vine fruit" has the effects of nourishing blood, astringing and stopping bleeding, and is commonly used for symptoms such as blood deficiency and gum bleeding. Let's take a closer look at the precautions when consuming sour vine fruit.
【Morphology of sour vine fruit】
Sour vine fruit is a climbing shrub or vine, a rare small shrub, growing 1-3 meters long. Leaves are opposite; petiole is 5-8mm long; leaf blade is tough and papery, inverted ovate or elongate inverted ovate, 3-4cm long, 1-1.5cm wide, occasionally up to 7cm long and 2.5cm wide, with a round, blunt or slightly concave apex, a wedge-shaped base, entire margin, thin white powder on the back, raised midrib, and indistinct lateral veins.
Inflorescence is cymose, axillary or lateral, borne on leafless branches of the previous year, 3-8mm long, finely pubescent, with 3-8 flowers, with 1-2 whorls of bracts at the base; pedicel is about 1.5mm long, sometimes sparsely pubescent, small bracts are lanceolate or elongate, with hairy margins, usually without glands;
Flowers are tetramerous, about 2mm long; calyx is fused at the base for about 1/2 to 1/3, with ovate or triangular lobes and an acute apex, with glandular dots;
Petals are white or yellowish, separate, ovate or elongate, with a round or blunt apex, about 2mm long, with hairy margins, densely covered with nipple-like projections on the inside, and glandular dots;
Stamens are degenerate in pistillate flowers, slightly exceeding the petals in staminate flowers, fused with the petals at the base, with straight filaments and glandular dots on the back of the anthers;
Carpels are degenerate in staminate flowers, slightly longer than the petals in pistillate flowers, with a bottle-shaped ovary, slender style, and flattened or somewhat shield-shaped stigma. Fruit is spherical, about 5mm in diameter, with indistinct glandular dots. Flowering period is from December to March of the following year, and fruiting period is from April to June.
【Precautions for consuming sour vine fruit】
1. People with weak spleen and stomach, indigestion, and loose stools should not consume sour vine fruit.
2. If symptoms do not improve or other adverse reactions occur after one week of consumption, seek medical attention promptly.
3. Develop good hygiene habits, wash hands before meals and after using the restroom, trim nails regularly, and correct the habit of sucking fingers.
4. Children's clothes should be washed and changed frequently, and bedding should be washed with boiling water and air-dried.
5. This product is prohibited for use in individuals who are allergic to it, and caution should be exercised by those with allergies.
6. This product should not be used if its characteristics change.
7. Children must use this product under adult supervision.
8. Please keep this product out of the reach of children.
