Schisandra is a common wild fruit with high medicinal and edible value. It has the effects of cooling blood, stopping bleeding, detoxifying, and relieving pain. It has certain therapeutic effects on treating conditions such as pulmonary tuberculosis, hemoptysis, and external bleeding!
Root: Schisandra root is thick and stout. It is used for treating jaundice hepatitis, stomach pain, irregular menstruation, postpartum fever, high fever in children, and hemorrhoids.
Stem: Erect or creeping shrubs, with stems often creeping on the ground and rooting. Creeping branches can reach up to 2m, and both flowering branches and creeping branches are densely covered with soft hairs, without thorns or with sparse small thorns.
Leaves: Single leaf, ovate to nearly circular, with a diameter of 5-11cm and a heart-shaped base. The upper surface is sparsely hairy or hairy along the veins, while the lower surface is densely covered with soft hairs. As the leaves age, the hairs on the lower surface often fall off. The leaves are shallowly lobed with 5-7 rounded and blunt lobes, and have irregular serrated edges;
The basal veins are palmately 5-lobed, with a stalk length of 4-9cm, densely covered with soft hairs, without thorns or with sparse needle-like thorns. The stipules are separate from the leaves, early falling off, palmately or pinnately deeply lobed, and hairy. It is used for treating pulmonary tuberculosis with hemoptysis; externally, it is used to treat traumatic bleeding and scabies.
Flower: Short cymose inflorescence terminal or axillary, with several flowers clustered in the leaf axils. The peduncle and pedicel of the inflorescence are densely covered with soft hairs, without thorns or with sparse needle-like thorns. The pedicel is 0.5-0.9cm long. The bracts are similar to the stipules. The diameter of the flower is 0.6-1cm.
The sepals are densely covered with light yellow soft hairs and hairs. The sepals are lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, with the apex of the outer sepals often shallowly lobed and the inner sepals entire. They often open and expand upright during fruiting, sometimes reflexed. The petals are inverted ovate and white. There are numerous stamens, and the filaments are hairless. The pistil is longer than the stamens.
Fruit: Nearly spherical, with a diameter of 6-10mm, dark purple, and hairless. Schisandra seeds have coarse wrinkles. They can be eaten or used for making wine. The roots are used to extract gum arabic.
