"Women Withering", also known as "Manchu", "Peony Vine", "Mountain Vine", "White Vine", and "Su Vine", is the stem of the Ranunculaceae plant Women Withering. The rhizome and the whole plant of Women Withering can be used as medicine. It has the effects of anti-inflammatory, diuretic and lactation-promoting, and is mainly used to treat various diseases such as enteritis, dysentery, thyroid enlargement, rheumatoid arthritis, and urinary tract infections.
【Morphological Characteristics】
Women Withering is a perennial herbaceous vine of the Clematis genus. The twigs, peduncles, and pedicels are densely covered with short soft hairs. The leaflets are ovate or broadly ovate, with serrated edges, sparsely hairy on the upper surface, and sparsely covered with short soft hairs on the lower surface. The inflorescence is a conical umbel with many flowers; the sepals are spreading, white, narrowly ovate, and the stamens are hairless, with filaments longer than anthers. The follicle is spindle-shaped or narrowly ovate. It blooms from July to September and fruits from September to October.
【Efficacy and Indications】
Women Withering contains quercetin, organic acids, sterols, and a small amount of alkaloids. It has detoxifying and anti-inflammatory effects, promotes diuresis and lactation, and relieves diarrhea and indigestion. It is used to treat enteritis, dysentery, thyroid enlargement, female edema, and musculoskeletal pain. Long-term use can also remove facial spots, make the skin beautiful and moist, the body agile, and delay aging.
Women Withering is mainly distributed in Hunan, Anhui, Jiangxi, and other provinces in China. It is cultivated in coastal provinces in southeastern China. In recent years, research on its components has been conducted, but its specific effects are not clear. It is used alone or in compound prescriptions.
【Usage and Dosage】
Oral administration: decoction, 10-15 grams, or made into pills or powder. External use: smoke fumigation.
【Prescription】
"New Three" for chronic dysentery and prolapse: cut Women Withering into pieces and burn them for fumigation.
"Yang's Breast Milk Prescription" for uncontrolled lactation: Women Withering and Yunnan Snakeroot each 30 grams, Chuan Wutou 60 grams, Cassia Twig 15 grams, grind into powder, make into honey pills the size of a wutong seed, take 5 pills each time, swallow with water, take three times a day.
Women Withering has a wide range of value. It not only has high medicinal value but also has great ornamental value. It can be cultivated as a green plant and has a good ornamental effect.
