Chinese medicinal materials Codonopsis

Chinese medicinal herb Codonopsis pilosula

It belongs to the Campanulaceae family and is a perennial tangled herbaceous plant with white milk. Root cylindrical shape. The stem is slender and soft, with many branches. Leaves opposite or alternate, ovate or broadly ovate, with wavy blunt teeth. Flowers bloom in summer and autumn, bell shaped, pale yellow green with purple spots. Growing in warm and humid areas above an altitude of 1500 meters. Rooted in medicine, with a flat nature and sweet taste, it has the effect of nourishing the middle and qi. Wendang is a precious nourishing medicinal herb, with chemical components including alkaloids, sucrose, inulin, glucose, starch, mucilage and trace elements, vitamins B1, B2, etc.

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Lanzhou Medical College Chinese herbal chemistry department laboratory stria contains 21 kinds of trace elements, of which 12 are essential nutrients, especially the content of selenium, which can inhibit the incidence of cancer. It contains a lot of sugar, which has been pharmacally confirmed to have important physiological functions, is a low-toxicity immune promoter, and has a certain prevention and treatment effect on tumors, cardiovascular diseases and radiation sickness. According to the Chinese Pharmacopoeia "Bencao Justice", the performance of the tattooed party is not far from ginseng, and it is the top grade in party ginseng, "strengthening the spleen but not dry, nourishing the stomach yin but not moist, moisturizing the lungs without being cold, nourishing blood and nourishing greasy, encouraging Qingyang to vibrate in the qi without the drawbacks of dryness". Therefore, in addition to tonifying qi and strengthening the spleen, it also has a significant effect on spleen and stomach weakness, blood gas loss, fatigue and weakness, anemia, leukemia, blood collapse in women, and postpartum diseases.