Looking for medicinal materials: 8 kinds of authentic Zhejiang medicinal materials-- "Zhejiang Bawei"

When most people travel, they will choose something with local characteristics to bring back as souvenirs or gifts. Due to the influence of the industry, friends who went to Changbai Mountain brought me new "fresh ginseng". This time when my friends went to Zhejiang, they jokingly asked me what I needed to bring back. They were all "Haitao", and I was "medicine Amoy". Let's see what authentic varieties there are in Zhejiang.

Atractylodes macrocephala Koidz

Atractylodes macrocephala Koidz: can promote immune function, enhance digestive function, as well as liver protection, diuresis, hypoglycemia, anti-tumor and so on.

Paeonia lactiflora

Radix Paeoniae Alba: calm the liver and relieve pain, nourish blood and regulate menstruation, collect yin and stop sweating. For headache, dizziness, hypochondriac pain, abdominal pain, limb contracture pain, blood deficiency and yellowing, irregular menstruation, spontaneous sweating, night sweats.

Hangzhou white chrysanthemum

Hangzhou white chrysanthemum: it is not only the traditional tea chrysanthemum in China, but also the best variety of chrysanthemum tea. It has the functions of relieving dysentery, anti-inflammation, eyesight, lowering blood pressure, lowering blood fat and strengthening the body. It can be used to treat damp-heat jaundice, stomachache, less food, edema, oliguria and so on. Bathing with chrysanthemum soup, it has the function of anti-itching, skin care and beauty.

Wen Yujin

Wen Yujin: invigorating qi to relieve depression, promoting blood circulation to relieve pain, promoting gallbladder and retreating jaundice. Treatment of chest and abdomen rib pain, loss of heart and madness, fever dizziness, hematemesis, hematuria, hematuria, women's inverted menstruation, jaundice.

Fritillaria thunbergii

Fritillaria thunbergii mother: clearing heat and resolving phlegm, dispelling knots and detoxification. Treatment of wind-heat cough, lung carbuncle and throat arthralgia, sore, swelling and toxin. Medication taboos: cold phlegm, damp phlegm and spleen and stomach deficiency cold carefully take Fritillaria thunbergii, Fritillaria thunbergii against aconitum.

Radix scrophulariae

Radix scrophulariae: febrile disease and camp blood; body heat; thirst; hair spot; bone steaming fatigue cough; deficiency and irritation; constipation; astringent eyes; sore throat; carbuncle.

Ophiopogon japonicus

Ophiopogon japonicus: nourishing yin and promoting fluid, moistening lungs and clearing heart. For dry lungs and dry coughs. Deficiency tuberculosis cough, Tianjin injury and thirst, upset insomnia, internal heat and thirst, intestinal dryness and constipation; pharynx diphtheria.

Rhizoma Corydalis

Rhizoma Corydalis, also known as Yuanhu, is a wonderful product of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, promoting qi and relieving pain, especially famous for its analgesic effect. The Compendium of Materia Medica concludes that Yuanhu has the four functions of promoting blood circulation, benefiting qi, relieving pain and relieving urination, and praises Yuanhu that it can carry out qi stagnation in blood and blood stagnation in qi, so it specializes in treating all kinds of pain up and down the body.

Conclusion: except for Zhejiang Bawei, there are many authentic medicinal materials in Zhejiang Province, such as Cornus officinalis, black medicine, black plum, Polygonatum odoratum, Gardenia jasminoides, cuttlefish bone, sericulture resources such as silkworm sand, silkworm pupa, silkworm moth, mulberry leaf, mulberry, mulberry white skin and so on. Therefore, the broad sense of "Zhejiang eight flavors" has gone far beyond its original content, but the general name of Zhejiang authentic medicinal materials represented by "Zhejiang eight flavors". Its name and content more reflect a cultural concept and category of "Zhejiang eight flavors". It is the concrete representative of Zhejiang "traditional Chinese medicine culture".