Soaking alcohol with traditional Chinese medicine is a long-standing traditional treatment method in Chinese medicine. Blood-filled herb, also known as bone-connecting herb, bone-connecting pill, vascular herb, etc., is the whole herb or root bark of the honeysuckle family plant blood-filled herb. Soaking alcohol with blood-filled herb can treat chronic nephritis. Let's learn about blood-filled herb together!
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【Treatment of Chronic Nephritis with Soaked Alcohol of Blood-filled Herb】
Blood-filled herb 5 qian, wine bottle flower root 1 liang, mountain bark strip, and stone pepper herb each 4 qian. Decoction and take orally. (Selected Compilation of Internal Medicine)
Blood-filled herb has the effects of dispelling wind, diuresis, promoting blood circulation, and dredging collaterals. It is mainly used to treat acute and chronic nephritis, rheumatic pain, wind rash itching, sequelae of infantile paralysis, sprains, and fractures.
1. "Plant Name and Reality Analysis": "Soaking for athlete's foot and edema."
2. "Yunnan Chinese Herbal Medicine": "Dispelling wind and activating collaterals, dispersing stasis and relieving itching. Mainly used for wind rash, rheumatic pain, infantile paralysis, bruises, fractures, and edema."
3. "Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicine in Tibet": "Activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis, strengthening tendons and bones, dispelling wind and dampness, diuresis and reducing swelling. Mainly used for rheumatoid arthritis, chronic lumbago and leg pain, sprains, hematoma, edema, and fractures."
4. "Illustrated Dictionary of Medicinal Plants on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau": "Used externally to treat boils, carbuncles, neurodermatitis, and infantile eczema; taken internally to treat rheumatoid arthritis."
5. "Commonly Used Folk Herbs in Kunming": "Dispelling wind and dampness, nourishing blood, promoting blood circulation, diuresis."
【The Legend of the Name of Blood-filled Herb】
Blood-filled herb, also known as bone-connecting herb, has the effect of promoting blood circulation and relieving pain, relaxing tendons and activating collaterals. Soaking it in alcohol can strengthen tendons and bones, treat rheumatism and bone pain, and use the leaves to treat bruises and bone fractures.
There is a rather shocking legend about the origin of the name bone-connecting herb: In the tropical rainforest of Yunnan, a Hani tribe old Chinese doctor was collecting medicinal herbs. When he was resting under a big tree, a large centipede crawled over.
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The old Chinese doctor chopped it into two pieces with a knife, and the two halves of the centipede struggled on the ground. But soon, another centipede came and brought a green leaf, placing it at the injured centipede's severed part.
Before long, the two halves of the centipede connected and slowly crawled into the grass. Therefore, the old Chinese doctor developed and utilized the bone-connecting herb...
A piece of bone-connecting herb leaf made the centipede reconnect its severed body and revive with full blood, which is truly incredible. However, it is true that bone-connecting herb has the effects of treating rheumatism, bone injuries, and bone healing.
【Identification of Blood-filled Herb】
The stem of blood-filled herb is cylindrical, with a diameter of 0.3-1.5cm, and the surface is grayish green to greenish brown, hard and brittle. The stem has multiple longitudinal ridges, and the ridge groove is covered with yellowish brown to rusty short hairs, with almost no hairs on the ridges. The outer layer of the stem is hard and woody; the marrow is wide and white, loose and spongy, slightly shiny, with scattered brownish red spots, mostly on the outer side of the marrow.
Odd-pinnate compound leaves are opposite, with small leaflets ranging from greenish brown to deep green, with short petioles and covered with short hairs. The leaflets are often wrinkled and broken. When fully unfolded, they are lanceolate, 5-15cm long, 2-4cm wide, and have serrated edges.
Occasionally, flowers can be seen. The terminal inflorescence is a conical panicle, with small, light yellow or white flowers. The scent is slightly fragrant; the taste is mild and slightly astringent. The color of the stem surface, longitudinal ridges and hair conditions, wide marrow, and scattered brownish red spots are the most characteristic identification points.
