Chinese medicine "sour vine fruit" has the effects of nourishing blood and stopping bleeding. Sour vine fruit mainly grows in grasslands, shrubs, or under trees at an altitude of 100-1800m. Sour vine fruit leaves are used to treat vitamin C deficiency and anemia. Let the editor of the Chinese Medicine Network take you to understand the method of using sour vine fruit leaves to treat anemia!
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【Treatment of Anemia with Sour Vine Fruit Leaves】
Internal use: Decoction, 9-15g of sour vine fruit.
In addition to containing a certain amount of nutrients, sour vine fruit peel and flesh also contain anthocyanins. The colorants of sour vine fruit are safe as food additives and have certain development and utilization value.
Sour vine fruit contains vitamin C and anthocyanins. If you take it in moderate amounts, it can be beneficial to the body. In fact, the fruit, leaves, and roots of sour vine fruit can all be used as medicine. The fruit has the function of strengthening and nourishing blood, and the leaves have the function of dispersing stasis, relieving pain, and treating bruises and swelling.
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【Morphology of Sour Vine Fruit】
Sour vine fruit is a climbing shrub or vine, rarely a small shrub, 1-3m long. Leaves are opposite; petioles are 5-8mm long; leaf blades are firm and papery, inverted ovate or elongated inverted ovate, 3-4cm long, 1-1.5cm wide, sometimes up to 7cm long and 2.5cm wide, with round, blunt or slightly concave apex, wedge-shaped base, entire margin, thin white powder on the back, prominent midvein, and inconspicuous lateral veins.
Corymbose inflorescence, axillary or lateral, borne on leafless branches of the previous year, 3-8mm long, covered with fine pubescence, with 3-8 flowers, with 1-2 whorls of bracts at the base; pedicels about 1.5mm long, sometimes pubescent, bracteoles lanceolate or elongated ovate, with ciliate margins, usually without glands;
Flowers tetramerous, about 2mm long; calyx base connate to 1/2 or 1/3, lobes ovate or triangular, acute at the apex, with glands;
Petals white or with yellowish color, separate, ovate or elongated ovate, round or obtuse at the apex, about 2mm long, with ciliate margins, densely covered with papillate projections inside, with glands;
Stamens degenerate in pistillate flowers, slightly exceeding petals in staminate flowers, base connate with petals, filaments erect, anthers with glands on the back;
Pistils degenerate in staminate flowers, slightly longer than petals in pistillate flowers, ovary bottle-shaped, styles slender, stigma flattened or somewhat shield-shaped. Fruits globose, about 5mm in diameter, with inconspicuous glands. Flowering period is from December to March of the following year, and fruiting period is from April to June.
