Five Spice Vine is a commonly used anti-inflammatory and analgesic medicine. It can not only treat flu and rheumatism, but also relieve menstrual disorders in women. It is mainly taken by decoction. Let's now learn about the efficacy and function of Five Spice Vine!
【Efficacy and Function of Five Spice Vine】
Clears heat and detoxifies, relaxes tendons and activates blood circulation, reduces swelling and relieves pain, treats flu, snake bites, and rabies, relieves rheumatism and numbness, treats injuries and bruises, menstrual disorders, boils and sores.
1. "Yunnan Medicinal Herbs": Root: Clears heat and detoxifies, reduces swelling and relieves pain. Prevents meningitis, flu, treats snake bites, unknown swelling and toxins, external bleeding, fractures.
2. "Selected Yunnan Medicinal Herbs": Root and vine: Relaxes tendons and activates blood circulation, reduces swelling and relieves pain; Leaves: Stops bleeding and disperses blood stasis.
【Plant Morphology of Five Spice Vine】
Evergreen climbing shrub. Main root is thick and cylindrical. Leaves are alternate, subleathery, ovate-lanceolate to oblong, 5-15 cm long, gradually pointed at the apex, bluntly rounded at the base, nearly entire or with sparse fine serrations.
Flowers are unisexual, axillary, 1-2 per cluster. Bracts are narrow and triangular, about 1 mm long and wide; Outer perianth lobes are small, triangular to nearly reniform, with marginal hairs, inner perianth lobes are purple-red, elliptic to ovate; Stamens are nearly spherical.
The berries of Five Spice Vine are bright red when mature. It flowers in summer.
【Compound Applications of Five Spice Vine】
1. For treating snake bites, rabies, and sores: Take an appropriate amount of Five Spice Vine leaves, mash and apply externally.
2. For treating rheumatism and numbness, injuries and bruises, stomach pain, menstrual disorders, and vasculitis: Take four to six qian of Five Spice Vine root and stem. Decoct and take orally, or soak in alcohol for consumption.
3. For treating external bleeding: Grind the root bark or leaves of Five Spice Vine into powder and sprinkle it on the wound. (Prescription from "Selected Yunnan Medicinal Herbs")
