Chinese medicine sour vine fruit is the dried mature fruit of the plant sour vine, also known as sour berry, sour vine head, letter tube fruit, and salty sour fruit. The branches, leaves, or roots of sour vine in traditional Chinese medicine are called sour vine wood, which also has the effect of converging and stopping bleeding.
【Effects and Functions of Sour Vine Fruit】
The unripe sour vine fruit is green and extremely sour, and generally cannot be eaten. The ripe sour vine fruit is blood red and has a sweet and sour taste, which is very delicious.
It is understood that sour vine fruit is rich in vitamin C and anthocyanins, and moderate consumption is beneficial to the body, with the effects of delaying aging and beauty.
However, due to the improvement of living conditions in rural areas nowadays, more and more people are unfamiliar with this wild fruit. Therefore, sour vine fruit is rarely regarded as a wild fruit anymore, and it is mostly used as a medicinal material.
The fruit, leaves, and roots of sour vine fruit can all be used for medicinal purposes. The fruit has the effect of strengthening and replenishing blood, and the leaves have the effect of dispersing stasis, stopping pain, and treating bruises and swelling.
In addition to these values, it is also used as an animal medicine in folk medicine. When cows have fever, they can be fed with the leaves of sour vine fruit.
【Fruit Morphology of Sour Vine Fruit】
Sour vine fruit is spherical or ellipsoidal, with a diameter of 3-8mm. The surface is green-brown or gray-purple, often with wrinkles. The top retains the stigma residue, and the bottom is often attached to a 2-5mm long pedicel and small persistent calyx.
The fruit skin is brittle and easy to peel; the seeds are often covered with brown seed coat, the endosperm is hard and the cross section is yellow-white and horny, and the external side can also be seen with the pattern of the seed coat embedded in the endosperm. It has a slight aroma, a mild taste, and a tingling sensation when chewed for a long time.
The berry is round, red or dark purple when ripe, and black-brown when dried, with a diameter of 5-6mm, smooth, or with longitudinal wrinkled ridges and a few glandular spots. It has a slight aroma and a sour and sweet taste.
The fruit of sour vine fruit is a spherical berry with a diameter of about 5mm. It is green when it is first picked, and it is ripe and dark red and can be eaten. The taste of the fruit is sour, sweet, and mild, and it is used to treat gastric acid deficiency and loss of appetite.
【Application Methods of Sour Vine Fruit】
Fruit: The fruit tastes sour and sweet. It is rich in vitamin C and can be eaten fresh or decocted separately to strengthen and replenish blood. It is used to treat gastric acid deficiency, gum bleeding, and loss of appetite.
Branches and leaves: The branches and leaves taste sour and can quench thirst. The roots are used as medicine and have the functions of anti-inflammatory, bactericidal, dispersing stasis, stopping pain, clearing heat, detoxification, and astringency to stop diarrhea. They are used to treat sore throat, gum bleeding, spleen deficiency and leakage, bruises and pain, and hemorrhoids. Take 9-15 grams by decoction.
1. Pomegranate seeds, biwa, pepper, dried ginger, dwarf iron wire lotus, small chili, nutmeg, cardamom, caoguo, sour vine fruit, cao yumei, datuoye yunshi, guangming salt, purple sand, red brown sugar, grind together and take with boiling water. It can increase gastric fire and treat bacon disease.
2. Cinnamon, dried ginger, biwa, pepper, dwarf iron wire lotus, small chili, sour vine fruit, aweto, purple sand, brown sugar. Grind together and take as a powder for internal use. It is used to treat bacon descending into the large and small intestines.
3. White sand, purple sand, sour vine fruit, Artemisia capillaris charcoal, etc. Grind finely and make into pills with brown sugar for internal use. It is used for intestinal obstruction and mass caused by parasites.
