raspberry
【Name】Raspberry
【Source】This product is the dried fruit of the rosaceae plant East China raspberry rubus chingii hu. In early summer, when the fruit is harvested from green to green, the stems and leaves are removed, slightly blanched or steamed in boiling water, taken out and dried.
【Original form】Palm leaf raspberry Deciduous shrub, 2-3 m tall. The young branches are green, with white powder and a few barbs. Single-leaf alternate; petiole length 3-4.5 cm; filamentous lanceolate leaflet; leaf blade nearly round, diameter 5-9 cm, palmar 5 deep lobes, medium lobes diamond-shaped ovate, nearly heart-shaped at the base, heavy serrations at the edges, white short soft hairs on both sides of the veins; basal five out of the veins. Flower amphoteric; solitary birth at the apex of the short branches, calyx 5, succumb, ovate oblong, sepal lobes on both sides with short soft hairs; petals 5, white, oval or ovate oblong, blunt at the apex; diameter 2.5-3.5 cm; peduncle length 2-3.5 cm; stamens majority, broad filaments; anther T-shaped, 2 chambers; pistil majority, with soft hairs, born on raised flower peduncles. The polymeric fruit is spherical, 1.5-2 cm in diameter, red, drooping; the small stone fruit is densely grayish-white with soft hairs. The flowering period is from March to April, and the fruiting period is from May to August.
Raspberry flowers and fruits (image from Baidu Encyclopedia)
【Properties】Dried polymer fruit is composed of most small fruits, all of which are conical, flat or spherical, 4 to 9 mm in diameter and 5 to 12 mm in height. The surface is grayish green with off-white fur. The upper part is blunt and rounded, the bottom is flattened, there are brown total bracts, 5 lobes, the total bracts have brown hairs on it, and the bottom often has a fruit stalk, which is brittle and easy to fall off. The small fruits are easy to peel off, each small fruit has three edges, half-moon shape, the back is dense gray-white hairy, there are obvious reticulated lines on the sides, containing 1 brown seed. The aroma is fragrant and the taste is sweet and slightly sour. It is preferable to be large, full, grainy, firm, gray-green, and leafless.
Raspberry Chinese Medicine (Image from Baidu Encyclopedia)
【Origin distribution】Ecological environment: it grows at altitude to mid-altitude areas, and is common in shrublands on hillsides, roadsides, and in the shade.
Resource distribution: distributed in Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangxi and other places.
【Active Ingredients】Raspberry contains organic acids, sugars and a small amount of vitamin C, and there is no gallic acid (ellagic acid), β-sitosterol (β-sitosterol), raspberry acid (fupenzic acid).
【Pharmacological Research】
1. Bacteriostatic effect 100% decoction with plate punching method, which has an inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus and An inhibitory effect on Vibrio cholerae.
2. Estrogen-like effects The vaginal smears and intimal slices of rats and rabbits show that raspberries seem to have estrogen-like effects.
【Efficacy and effect】Tonify liver and kidney, shrink stool, help yang, solid essence, blindness. Cure impotence, sperm, sperm, drowning, fatigue, darkness. Beneficial kidneys, spermatosis, shrinkage. It is used for renal deficiency and enuresis, frequent urination, impotence and premature ejaculation, spermatozoa and slippery sperm.
【Sexual taste returns to the scriptures】Sweet, sour, warm. Attributed to the kidneys and bladder meridians.
【Contraindications】Kidney deficiency has fire, and those who urinate shortly take it with caution.
【References】 Chinese Pharmacopoeia; National Compilation of Chinese Herbal Medicine; Chinese Materia Medica; Baidu Encyclopedia
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