The Healing Power of Wuxie Vine: A Traditional Chinese Medicine Marvel

March 9, 2024

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that Wuxie Vine has the effects of clearing heat and cooling blood, promoting pus drainage and reducing swelling, relieving pain, and promoting tissue regeneration. It is mainly used to treat rheumatism, sore throat, scrofula, breast abscess, sores, eczema, unknown swelling and toxicity, and snake bites. Let's take a look at the Wuxie Vine pictures and its monotherapy prescriptions.

  【Monotherapy prescriptions of Wuxie Vine】

  1. Treatment for testicular pain: Soak 60g of Wuxie Vine and 60g of Wild Peony Root in alcohol, simmer for half an hour, and take orally. Crush Moxian Lian and apply it externally.

  2. Treatment for cervical lymph node tuberculosis: Take 30g of Wuxie Vine, 30g of Bai Fen Vine Head, and 15g of Rat Ear Root, decoct in water, and take one dose daily.

  3. Treatment for rheumatism and arthralgia: Take 45g of Wuxie Vine, stew with 100g of stewed pork, and take orally.

  4. Treatment for bone ulcer: Take 15g of Wuxie Vine, 15g of Shanhujiao Root, 15g of a branch of yellow flower, 15g of Tianji Huang, and 10g of Liangmianzhen, decoct in water, and take orally.

  5. Treatment for lumbar and leg rheumatism and soreness: Take 30g of Wuxie Vine, 30g of Qianjinba, 10g of Lianqiancao, 10g of Liangmianzhen, 15g of Ma'anteng Head, and 15g of Niudali, decoct in water, and take orally.

  6. Treatment for abscess: Take 15g of Wuxie Vine Head, 15g of Maoyu Yeyin Flower Vine, decoct in water, soak in alcohol, and take orally.

  7. Treatment for early stage of abscess and swelling: Take 15g of Wuxie Vine, 15g of Yexiangniu, 15g of Juechuang, 30g of Bai Fen Vine Head, and 10g of Tianji Huang, decoct in water, and take orally.

  【Plant Morphology】

  Wuxie Vine is a climbing vine that can grow up to 4 meters long. The branches and inflorescences are covered with soft hairs. The leaves are opposite; inverted egg-shaped, egg-shaped, or rectangular, 2.5-3 cm long, 1.5-4 cm wide, blunt or short pointed at the apex, narrow or rounded at the base, both sides are hairless or only soft-haired on the veins; the leaf stalk is 6-8 mm long, hairy, and has clustered glandular bodies at the apex. The umbellate inflorescence is axillary, 1.5 cm long; the calyx is 5-lobed, lobes are ovate; the corolla is bell-shaped, yellow, 5-lobed, about 4 mm in diameter, with 5 fleshy scales alternating with the corolla lobes; the stamens are 5, the filaments are fused into a tubular shape; the stigma is wide and blunt, concave-conical, protruding from the stamens. The fruits are hard, about 5 cm long, and wide at the base. The seeds are ovate, thin and concave, with whorled, white, silky hairs. Flowering period is in July. It grows in forests or shrubs. It is distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and other places.

  【Wuxie Vine pictures】
 

   
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