Detailed introduction of the efficacy and effect of elderberry fruit

It is unlucky to burn elderberry or bring it into the house. However, after proper treatment of elderberry can produce a protective function, let's take a look at the elderberry fruit release efficacy and role in detail.

Detailed introduction of the efficacy and effect of elderberry fruit

Elderberry is a deciduous shrub or small tree, 5-6 meters high; old branches light reddish brown, with obvious long oval lenticels, pith light brown. The florescence is generally from April to May, and the fruit maturity is from September to October.

Elderberry fruit tastes sweet, bitter and flat. Dispelling wind, promoting dampness, promoting blood circulation and relieving pain. For rheumatic muscle and bone pain, low back pain, edema, rubella, addiction rash, postpartum blood dizziness, fall swelling pain, fracture, trauma bleeding. Root or root bark (elderberry root): gan, flat. For rheumatic arthralgia, phlegm, edema, diarrhea, jaundice, fall injury, scald. Leaves (elderberry leaves): bitter, cool. Promoting blood circulation, promoting blood stasis and relieving pain. For falling fracture, rheumatism arthralgia, muscle and bone pain. Flower (elderberry flower): used for sweating and diuresis.

Elderberry is mainly used in traditional Chinese medicine. The famous ancient medicine book "Materia Medica newly compiled" recorded elderberry fruit, into the bone section, specially continued tendons and bones, broken wine swallowing, wind itching soup bath. It is used alone to continue the bone joint Guqi, but in the blood-promoting and blood-activating medicine, the bone graft is especially strange, but it is better to use it raw. When it is used for dry wood, its strength is halved, and that for stir-frying is also halved. It is also recorded in modern practical traditional Chinese medicine books that elderberry is an analgesic. Elderberry fruit for the treatment of hand and foot wind and rheumatism low back pain, interosseous pain, limb cold pain, foot swelling. And fall injury bone pain, rubella, sweat rash and so on for the bath soup.

In the house of the she nationality, which has a history of more than 1500 years in southwestern Zhejiang, there is a valuable kind of wine: she Luqu Liquor. According to the elders of the she nationality, the Ye people have lived in seclusion in the mountains since ancient times and have common diseases such as insect bites and rheumatism. The simple way to solve this kind of problem is to continue the secret recipe of the tribe for thousands of years, often drinking green koji wine, and one of the precious and mysterious ingredients in this green koji wine is said to be elderberry fruit.

Elderberry has luxuriant branches and leaves, white flowers in spring and red fruits in summer and autumn. it is a good ornamental shrub and should be planted on lawn, forest edge or water edge. it is also resistant to chlorine, hydrogen chloride, sulfur dioxide, aldehyde, ketone, alcohol, ether, benzene and so on.