Name: Caulis Polygoni Multiflori

Category: sedative drugs

Pinyin: SHOU WU TENG

Latin: Caulis Polygoni Multiflori

Alias: chess rattan, Polygonum multiflorum

Medicinal parts: stems or leaves with a cane

Medicinal properties: This product is long and cylindrical, slightly twisted, with branching, length, diameter of 4 ~ 7mm. Surface of the purple red to purplish brown, rough, with twisted longitudinal wrinkles, nodes slightly swollen, with lateral mark, skin thin, stripping. Brittle, easily broken, section of skin purple red, white or light brown wood, pipe hole is obvious, the pith is loose, white. No smell, taste slightly bitter.

Main points of cultivation:

Origin: Henan, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangsu

Recovery processing : 11 ~ December the excavation. Removal of leaves, tied into the, drying.

Authentic history:

Tropism of taste: flat; Gan; heart, liver

Functions: sedative, expelling wind. For insomnia and dreaminess, blood and body pain, rheumatic arthralgia; external treatment of skin itching.

Usage & Dosage: orally taken decoction, 10 ~ 20g. External: moderate, washed fried or trace and apply.

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