It can clear away heat and detoxify, reduce swelling and relieve pain, etc. Aesculus aesculata is one of the main medicinal materials of Yunnan Baiyao and Pien Tze Huang.

Medical source:

It is the dried rhizome of the plant Aesculus aesculata. The medicinal part is the rhizome, and the medicinal material is called Zhaixiu. Nodular flat cylindrical shape, slightly curved, 5-12cm long, 1.0-4.5cm in diameter. The surface is yellow-brown or gray-brown, and the peeling part is white. Densely layered raised thick ring patterns, with obvious nodules on one side and oval depressed stem marks on it, and sparse fibrous roots or wart-like fibrous root marks on the other side.

The top has residues of scale leaves and stems. Solid texture, flat cross-section, white to light brown, powdery or gummy. The smell is slight and the taste is slightly bitter and numb. Cut into slices and used as medicine.

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Some notes:

This product is bitter and cold in nature, slightly toxic, and contains phloroside, phloroside and biological Alkali etc. Excessive application may cause poisoning. It has toxic effects on the digestive system, nervous system and heart. Mainly toxic reactions.

The story about the seven-leafed flower:

A long time ago, there lived a young man named Shen Jianshan in Tianri Mountain District, Zhejiang. His parents died young and he had no brothers or sisters. He made a living by cutting firewood in the mountains. One day, while he was chopping firewood, a poisonous snake suddenly sprang out of the grass. Before he could escape, he was bitten severely on the calf by the snake. After a while, he fell to the ground unconscious.

At this time, the seven fairies in the sky happened to come to take a bath in the Tianmu Mountain Tianchi on the colorful clouds. When they saw Shen Jianshan who had fainted, they felt sympathy for him. They formed a circle around him and took out the robes they carried with them. Pa covered his wound. Coincidentally, the Queen Mother also arrived in auspicious clouds at this time. She saw the young man, the wound and the rappa of her daughters. She understood everything, so she casually pulled out the jade hairpin on her head and placed it in the center of the seven rappa.

Perhaps the wound received the fairy energy of Ropa and Jasper Hairpin, the snake venom dissipated quickly, and Shen Jianshan gradually came to his senses. The moment he woke up, he heard a gust of wind. The ropa and the jade hairpin fell to the ground together, and immediately turned into a wild grass with seven green leaves supporting a golden flower. He was stunned, as if he had just had a dream, and looked at his calf again to see if there were any scars. Finally he figured out that it was this beautiful weed that saved him from the snake bite.

So, after coming down the mountain, he repeatedly told the villagers the strange story of being bitten by a snake and being rescued, and took the villagers up the mountain to get medicine. The villagers speculated that this medicinal herb contained immortal energy and could defeat snake venom and monsters. Therefore, whenever they were bitten by a snake, they would dig this medicinal herb and get magical effects. When everyone curiously asked about the name of the medicinal herb, Shen Jianshan thought for a while and said: "A flower with seven leaves and one flower."

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