Ardisia crenata, also known as sourberry or coralberry, is a traditional Chinese medicine. It has the effects of nourishing blood and stopping bleeding, and is often used for blood deficiency and gum bleeding. Now let's take a closer look at the prescription of sourberry for increasing stomach fire!
【Prescription of Sourberry for Increasing Stomach Fire】
Pomegranate seeds, Chinese arrowroot, pepper, dried ginger, short-tail iron thread lotus, small chili pepper, cardamom, black cardamom, fructus amomi, sourberry, grass jade plum, big leaf cloud berry, light salt, purple sand, red sugar, grind together and take with boiling water. It can increase stomach fire and treat Bacon disease.
Sourberry has the effects of nourishing blood and stopping bleeding, and is often used for blood deficiency and gum bleeding.
Roots and leaves: promote blood circulation, relieve pain, reduce inflammation, and stop diarrhea. Roots are used for dysentery, enteritis, indigestion, sore throat, and bruises; leaves are used externally to treat bruises, itching of the skin.
Fruit: strengthen the body, nourish blood. It is used for amenorrhea, anemia, and insufficient gastric acid. The fruit can be eaten, and the roots and leaves are used by veterinarians to treat bloating and thirst caused by cattle eating toxic plants and fever.
"Hainan Island Common Chinese Herbal Medicine Manual": "The fruit and leaves can be used to treat vitamin C deficiency and anemia."
"Crystal Bead Materia Medica": Sourberry kills insects and raises gastric temperature. The fruit is pale red, and makes a sound when shaken, resembling a bean.
"Morphological Metaphor": Sourberry has slender stems, gray leaves, small and rough, blue-red flowers, small in size, and the fruit is like frosted beans, with a sour and sweet taste. Its efficacy can treat insect diseases.
"Calculating the Wheel of the Sun and Moon": Sourberry has a pungent and sharp taste, kills insects, treats gray edema, and has a strong laxative effect.
【Pharmacological Effects of Sourberry】
1. Contraceptive effect.
2. Estrogen and anti-estrogen activity.
3. Progestin-like activity and anti-progestin-like activity.
In addition to the fruit, the roots and leaves of sourberry also have the effects of promoting blood circulation, relieving pain, stopping diarrhea, treating bruises and swelling, enteritis and diarrhea, sore throat, gastric acid deficiency, and menstrual pain and amenorrhea.
