Alias: rip silk skin, silk cotton skin, Si Xian, Si Zhong, wood wool, stone Si Xian, silk Lianpi

Contraindications: Yin deficiency fire people should be cautious.

Suitable for people: suitable for middle-aged and elderly people with insufficient kidney qi, lumbar and knee pain, weak legs and feet, urination; women's frailty, kidney qi is not solid, fetal leakage and habitual abortion when birth control; polio sequelae, children walking too late, two lower limb weakness; hypertensive patients.

Basic introduction of Cortex Eucommiae

Cortex Eucommiae is the dried bark of Cortex Eucommiae, a plant of the family Eucommiaceae, which is a valuable tonic herb. Born in mountain forests or cultivated. Distributed in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and the southern provinces, Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu and other places are cultivated.

Eucommia is a unique medicinal herb with a long history of medicinal use, and has a wide range of clinical applications. Up to now, as many as 14 species of Eucommia have been found on earth, and later they became extinct one after another on the continent and in Europe. It exists in . Eucommia is the only surviving relict plant of the genus Eucommia, which not only has high economic value, but also has extremely important scientific value for the study of angiosperm systematic evolution as well as the origin of the flora and many other aspects. It is now listed as a rare plant in the Red Book of Plants - Rare and Endangered Plants, Volume One.

Effects and functions of Cortex Eucommiae

Sweet taste, warm nature. It can tonify the liver and kidney, strengthen the tendons and bones, and tranquilize the fetus. Used for liver and kidney insufficiency, lumbar and knee pain, lower limb impotence, impotence and urinary frequency; liver and kidney weakness, pregnancy blood, fetal restlessness, or habitual abortion; hypertension.

1, lowering blood pressure

Cortex Eucommiae is effective in lowering blood pressure, preventing and controlling vascular sclerosis, coronary heart disease, anti-aging, anti-tumor and other aspects.

2, strong tendons and bones

Expressed as vertigo, lumbar and knee pain, impotence of tendons and bones. Common in hypertension, vertigo, cerebrovascular accident sequelae, chronic kidney disease, poliomyelitis and so on.

3, tonifying the liver and kidney, and stabilizing the fetus

Manifestations of frequent urination or urinary leaking, wet and itchy under the pubic area, impotence, weakness of the pregnant woman, fetal restlessness, or lumbar cramps and pains, and so on. Commonly found in chronic prostate disease, sexual dysfunction, infertility, preeclampsia or habitual abortion.

4, the treatment of chronic diseases

Used for chronic joint diseases, bone tuberculosis, dysmenorrhea, dysfunctional uterine bleeding, chronic pelvic inflammatory disease and other diseases with signs of deficiency of liver and kidney.

Nutritional Value of Eucommia

The bark of the tree contains 6-10% of eucommia gum, the root bark contains about 10-12%, and the leaves contain 2-4% of eucommia gum. In addition, it also contains glycosides 0.142 mg, alkaloids 0.066 mg, pectin 6.5 mg, fat 2.9 mg, resin 1.76 mg, organic acids 0.25 mg, ketoses (2.15 mg before hydrolysis, 3.5 mg after hydrolysis), vitamin C 20.7 mg, in addition. It contains vitamin E, vitamin B and beta-carotene, etc. It also contains many essential trace elements, aldose, chlorogenic acid.

The fatty acid composition of the fatty oil contained in the seeds is 67.38% linolenic acid, 9.97% linoleic acid, 15.81% oleic acid, 2.15% stearic acid. Palmitic acid 4.68%. The fruit contains gum up to 27%, easily soluble in ethanol, acetone and other organic solvents.

Shopping and buying of Cortex Eucommia

Dry bark, for the flat plate flaky or rolled flaky, the size of the thickness varies, generally about 3 to 10 mm thick, about 40 to 100 cm long. The outer surface is gray-brown, rough, with irregular longitudinal grooves and rhomboid transverse split lenticels, sometimes visible light gray lichen spots. But commodities have been cut off part of the rough skin, so the outer surface is light brown, smoother. The inner surface is smooth, dark purple. The texture is brittle and easy to break, and there are silver-white filaments connected with the cross-section, fine and dense, slightly stretchy. Slight gas, slightly bitter taste, chewing gelatinous residue. To skin thick and large, brown skin scraping, outside yellow-brown, inside black-brown and light, when broken white silk is good. Thin skin, less silk on the cross-section or thick skin with coarse skin quality.

Storage of Cortex Eucommiae

Keep in a cool and dry place.

Effects and functions of eucommia and contraindications2

Effects and functions