Is acanthopanax senticosus acanthopanax bark?
Acanthopanax senticosus is not acanthopanax bark.
Acanthopanax senticosus, alias: Acanthopanax senticosus, Acanthopanax senticosus, Acanthopanax senticosus, Acanthopanax senticosus, Acanthopanax senticosus, deciduous shrubs, mainly distributed in Northeast Asia and Siberia. Its roots and rhizomes can be used as medicine.
Born in hillside forests and roadside shrubs; Medicinal gardens are often cultivated. Distributed in Central China, East China, South China and Southwest China. Root bark can dispel wind and remove dampness, strengthen bones and muscles, and can be made into acanthopanax senticosus wine (or acanthopanax senticosus powder) by soaking in wine. Root bark contains volatile oil, tannin, palmitic acid, linseed oleic acid, vitamins A and B 1.
The difference between acanthopanax senticosus and acanthopanax senticosus
1, acanthopanax senticosus bark is used as medicine from root bark, and acanthopanax senticosus is used as medicine from root and rhizome.
2. Acanthopanax senticosus has a good anti-fatigue effect, which is more significant than that of ginseng, and can obviously improve its hypoxia tolerance. Tonifying the middle energizer, strengthening the will, expelling wind and removing dampness, strengthening bones and muscles, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, invigorating stomach and diuresis.
3. Acanthopanax senticosus has the effects of arthralgia due to wind-cold-dampness, soreness of waist and knees, muscle contracture, swelling and pain of beriberi, muscle weakness, edema, dysuria, kidney deficiency and coldness, fine injury to marrow, wet itching under the yin, lumbago, blood wind strain and so on.
Acanthopanax gracilis
Acanthopanax senticosus, scientific name Gesneriaceae, belongs to Gesneriaceae. Located in the southeast of Yunnan, on the rocks in the mixed forest, with an altitude of 1000- 1200m. Acanthopanax senticosus, also known as Nitraria tangutorum, millet grass, and Euonymus japonicus, is mainly produced in Hubei, Henan, Anhui, Sichuan and other places. Acanthopanax bark is the dried root bark of Acanthopanax gracilistylus, a plant of Araliaceae. Dig roots in summer and autumn, wash them, peel them and dry them in the sun.
Use of acanthopanax bark
Wash impurities, wash with clear water, slightly moisten, slice and dry. Stir-frying: take the original medicinal materials and stir-fry them with low fire until they change color. Brewing: mix Cortex Acanthopanacis Senticosi with yellow wine, moisten until the wine is exhausted, take out and dry, 500g Cortex Acanthopanacis Senticosi, 60g yellow wine, or wash with wine. "Gouyuan Materia Medica": Cortex Acanthopanacis, boneless, dried in the shade, washed with wine, or made with ginger juice.