Big Wupao is the root of the plant Rosa multiflora in the Rosaceae family. It can be harvested all year round. Traditional Chinese medicine explains the interpretation of Big Wupao and its functions and indications!
Big Wupao
What is Big Wupao
【Alias】 Inverted root, yellow water bubble, thornless wupao, sugar bubble leaf, horseberry leaf ("Guizhou Herbal Medicine").
【Source】 It is the root of the plant Rosa multiflora in the Rosaceae family. It can be harvested all year round. Wash, slice, and dry.
【Habitat Distribution】 It grows in shrubs along the road. It is distributed in Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and other places.
【Original Morphology】 Shrub, 2-3 meters tall. The stem, leaf stalks, and lower surface of the leaves are densely covered with yellow hairs and scattered short bent thorns.
Single leaf alternate, leathery, nearly circular, with a diameter of 4-12 centimeters, palmately 7-9 lobed.
The terminal lobe is not obvious, with 3 lobes, rounded or blunt at the tip, heart-shaped at the base, and irregularly serrated at the edge.
There are short soft hairs and small bumps on the upper surface, with 5 basal veins and clear net veins.
The leaf stalk is 3-6 cm long; the stipule is lobed.
Conical inflorescence or cymose inflorescence, terminal or axillary, covered with yellow hairs.
The bracts are elliptical and incised; the sepals are ovoid, often with multiple lobes at the apex, and covered with yellow hairs on the outside.
The aggregate fruit is spherical, with a diameter of 1-1.5 cm, and red.
Big Wupao
Treatment of Diseases with Big Wupao
1. Treatment of dysentery
Fresh Big Wupao root bark, three liang; fresh Desmodium styracifolium root, two liang; fresh Platycladus orientalis root, one liang. Decoction and take, three to four times a day, two small wine cups each time.
2. Treatment of coughing with blood, weakness of limbs
Fresh Big Wupao, two liang; fresh Xanthium sibiricum, one liang; inner core of sunflower stalk, five qian. Add water and boil into a concentrated juice, take four times a day, one teacup each time.
3. Treatment of irregular menstruation
Big Wupao root, Umbelliferae plant root, one liang each; Imperata cylindrica root, honeysuckle vine, five qian each. Decoction with water and mixed with brown sugar, take three times a day.
4. Treatment of fractures (without broken skin)
Big Wupao root, wild grape root bark, ginseng stem, equal amounts.
Mash them together, fry them with alcohol until hot, first use manual techniques to reset the fracture, then apply the medicine, and then apply the splint, change it once a day.
The dosage depends on the area of the affected area. (Prescription from "Guizhou Herbal Medicine")
