Chasteberry, for the Ligustrum?lucidum?Ait. Ligustrum plant dry mature fruit. The product is ovate, ellipsoid or kidney-shaped, 6-8.5mm long, 3.5-5.5mm in diameter. the surface of the black purple or gray-black, wrinkled and uneven, the base of the fruiting peduncle scars or with the persistent calyx and short peduncle. Body light. Exocarp thin, mesocarp looser, easy to peel, endocarp woody, yellowish brown, with longitudinal ribs, after breaking open the seed is usually 1, kidney-shaped, purple-black, oily. Odorless, taste sweet, slightly bitter and astringent. Native to the Yangtze River basin and all parts of southern China, Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu, etc. It is also introduced in less cold places in the north, and is also distributed in southern Korea and India.
Chinese medicine name: chasteberry
Medicinal herb origin: the mature fruit of chasteberry, family Mulleinaceae. Harvested in winter when the fruit is ripe
Chasteberry Bonsai
Taste: sweet, bitter, flat.
Category: Liver; Kidney Meridian
Effects: tonic medicine
Effects: tonifying the liver and kidney, clearing deficiency heat, strengthening the waist and knees, brightening the ears and eyes, and darkening the beard and hair.
Pharmacological (toxicological) science: chasteberry is very toxic to animals, rabbits 1 dose of fresh mature fruit 75g, no poisoning. [2]?
Attacks: dizziness; lumbar and knee soreness and weakness; spermatorrhea; tinnitus; premature whitening of beard and hair, bone vapor and hot flashes
Use and dosage: internal: decoction of soup, 6 to 15 grams; or into the pill. External use: Appropriate amount, applying ointment to the eyes.
Clinical application
It is used for the darkness and uncertainty of the eyes, loss of vision, early whitening of hair, lumbago and tinnitus of deficiency of liver and kidney yin, and deficiency of yin and fever. This product can tonify the liver and kidney yin, but the strength of the drug is calm, and must be slow to take effect. The treatment of dark eyes, often with the cooked ground, cuscuta, Chinese wolfberry, the treatment of premature whitening of the hair, often with the ink lotus, mulberry, the treatment of yin deficiency fever, often with the ground bone skin, the raw rhizome of the earth, and so on.
1. Yin deficiency of the liver and kidney, dizziness, spermatorrhea, tinnitus, lumbar and knee pain and weakness, premature whitening of hair.
2. Elderly people with constipation.
3. Coronary heart disease, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, chronic hepatitis.
"Chasteberry" is sold in hospitals for 2 cents a gram, or 10 yuan a catty. Wholesale herbs may be cheaper. Here is a screenshot of the People's Hospital pharmacy information.