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What is Dendrobium and what does it do

Dendrobium is one of the commonly used Chinese medicines in China.

The main injury in the middle, remove paralysis, down the gas, tonifying the five viscera, deficiency and fatigue leanness, strong yin. It can be used for a long time to thicken the stomach and intestines, lighten the body and prolong the life, benefit the stomach, nourish the yin and clear the heat.

Extended information:

Dendrobium (scientific name: DendrobiumnobileLindl), also known as immortal dendrobium orchid rhyme, immortality, return to the soul of the grass, Purple Haunting Fairy Plant, Hanging Orchid, Forest Orchid, Forbidden Life, Hairpin Flower and so on. The stem is erect, fleshy and fertile, slightly compressed cylindrical, 10~60 cm long and up to 1.3 cm thick. Medicinal plant, sweet, light, slightly salty, cold, to the stomach, kidney, lung meridian. Benefiting the stomach and generating fluids, nourishing yin and clearing heat.

Stem erect, fleshy and plump, slightly flattened cylindrical, 10~60 cm long, up to 1.3 cm thick, more or less reflexive curved in the upper part, the base is obviously narrowed, unbranched, with many nodes, nodes sometimes slightly swollen; more or less obconical between nodes, 2~4 cm long, golden yellow after drying. Leaves leathery, oblong, 6-11 centimeters long, 1-3 centimeters wide, apex obtuse and unequally 2-lobed, base with clasping sheaths.

Produced in the Dabie Mountains of southern Anhui (Huoshan), Taiwan, southern Hubei (Yichang), Hong Kong, Hainan (Baisha), western to northeastern Guangxi (Baise, Pingnan, Xing'an, Jinxiu, Jingxi), southern Sichuan (Changning, Emeishan, Leshan), southwestern to northern Guizhou (Chishui, Xishui, Luodian, Xingyi, Sandu), southeastern to northwestern Yunnan (Fumin), and southeastern Tibet (Motuo). Motuo).

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Dendrobium