Mistletoe is a medicinal herb. Let me tell you more about it and find out!

Brief introduction of mistletoe:

Mistletoe [Latin name: Viscum coloratum***Kom.***Nakai], alias: northern parasitoid, mulberry parasitoid, willow parasitoid, yellow parasitoid, frozen green, parasitoid, is a shrub plant of the genus mistletoe in the family of mulberry parasitoid. The stem and branches of the plant with leaves can be used medicinally, with the ability to relieve tendons and activate collaterals, activate blood circulation and dissipate blood stasis. It is used for tendon and bone pain, limb contracture, lumbar and back pain, and bruises. It can tonify the liver and kidney, strengthen the tendons and bones, dispel wind and dampness, and stabilize the fetus, etc. Mistletoe extract can improve microcirculation, and its total alkaloids also have anti-tumor effects.

What is it?

(1) treatment of chronic bronchitis

1.5g of Chen Pi, mistletoe 3g **** also known as "Chen Sent Drink" ****, put into a cup of tea or a bowl, 200ml of boiled water, cover and put it for 10 minutes and then take it. The first half of the service, the second service with an equal amount of boiled water and then half, according to the daily service 3 times, a dose of 3 consecutive days, before and after meals can be served. Observation of 200 cases, the results of close control 42 cases ***21%***, 69 cases ***34. 5%***.

(2) used for wind-dampness paralyzing pain, lumbar and knee pain, etc..

The product can not only dispel wind-dampness, but also nourish blood, benefit the liver and kidney, and strengthen the muscles and bones. Therefore, it can be used to treat wind-dampness paralytic pain with deficiency of blood, liver and kidney, lumbar and knee soreness and weakness, etc. It is especially useful for paralytic pain with deficiency of liver and kidney. It is especially suitable for paralysis with deficiency of liver and kidney. It is often used together with Duhuo, Gentiana, Guizhi and Dudong, Angelica and other medicines, such as Duhuo parasitic soup.

(3) It is used for fetal leakage of blood, fetal restlessness.

The product nourishes the liver and kidney, nourishes the blood, so it has the effect of fixing Chong Ren and tranquilizing the fetus. It is mostly used with Colla Corii Asini, Sichuan Schizandra, Semen Cuscutae, etc., such as Shou Tire Pill.

(4) Treatment of coronary heart disease, angina pectoris and arrhythmia.

How to identify mistletoe?

Mistletoe trait identification

Stem branches cylindrical, branch tips with leaves or shed leafless, about 30cm long, thick branches about 1cm in diameter, thin branches 2-6mm in diameter, nodes expanded, nodes with 2-3 forked branches or branch scars, the stem technology is easy to break off from the nodes, the internode length of 2-9cm. surface golden yellow, yellowish-green or yellowish-brown, smooth hairless, with obvious irregular longitudinal wrinkles. The surface is golden yellow, yellowish green or yellowish brown, smooth and glabrous, with obvious irregular longitudinal wrinkles. The body is light, flexible, not easy to break, the section is not flat; the skin part is yellow; the wood part is lighter in color, with radial texture; the pith is small, often biased to one side. Leaves opposite to the branch tips, easy to fall off, sessile; leaf blade oblanceolate or oblong, 2-7cm long, 0.5-1.5cm wide, apex obtuse-rounded, base tapering to a short stalked, basal veins 5, the middle 3 more obvious, golden yellow to yellow-green, wrinkled. Leathery and thick, slightly pliable. Occasionally with unshed flowers and fruits; flowers small-shaped, solitary, or several clusters between the two leaves at the tips of branches; fruit ellipsoid, about 5mm in diameter, yellowish brown or dark red, wrinkled. Gas faint, taste slightly bitter, chewing sticky smooth. Tender branches, yellow-green color, more leaves is preferred.

Mistletoe microscopic identification

Stem cross-section: epidermal cells rectangular, covered with yellow-green horny layer, 19 ~ 80 μm thick. cortex is broader, dozens of bundles of fibers, microlignification; old stems stone cells are very much, a single scattered or several groups. Phloem narrower, old stems with scattered stone cells. Formation layer inconspicuous. Xylem rays scattered with bundles of fibers; periductal fibers very numerous and with a few heteromorphic cells. Pith conspicuous. Thin-walled cells contain calcium oxalate clusters and a few schizocrystals.