Alias: fishing vine, tender double hook, ding hook

English name: Uncaria

Main effects: calming the wind, calming the convulsion, clearing heat and calming the liver.

Uncaria rhynchophylla, a traditional Chinese medicine, is a medicine for calming the liver and calming the wind. It is a dry hooked stem branch of Uncaria rhynchophylla, Uncaria macrophylla, Uncaria pubescens, Uncaria sinensis or Uncaria sessilifolia of Rubiaceae.

Uncaria is sweet and cool. Liver pericardium meridian

Uncaria rhynchophylla is mainly produced in Guangxi, Guangdong, Hunan, Jiangxi and Sichuan.

Medicinal parts of Uncaria rhynchophylla:

This product is the dried hook stem of Uncaria rhynchophylla. )miq。 Axel. Uncaria macrophylla Uncaria pubescens Uncaria China. ) Havile. Or Uncaria sessilifolia. Rubiaceae.

Harvesting in autumn and winter, defoliating, cutting and drying.

Characteristics of medicinal parts of Uncaria rhynchophylla;

The stems and branches of this product are cylindrical or square, 2 ~ 3 cm long and 0.2 ~ 0.5 cm in diameter. The surface is reddish brown to purplish red, with fine longitudinal stripes, smooth and hairless; Some yellow-green to grayish brown people can see white punctate lenticels, which are yellow-brown pilose.

Most branches have two downward curved hooks (sterile stalks), or only one side has hooks and the other side has prominent marks; The hook is slightly flat or round, with a sharp tip and a wide base; On the branches at the base of the hook, there are teeth marks and annular stipules after the petiole falls off. Tough texture, yellow-brown cross section, fibrous pericarp, yellow-white or hollow pith. A slight breath, a faint taste.

Uncaria rhynchophylla is sweet and cool in nature, and should be used with caution for people with spleen and stomach weakness and kidney yang deficiency, as well as those with exogenous cold and internal injury.