Dendrobium

Also known as: hanging orchid, gold hairpin

Taste and flavor attribution: taste sweet, slightly cold, to the stomach, kidney meridian.

Nourishing yin and generating fluids to save lives

Dendrobium has the effect of nourishing yin, clearing heat and generating fluids. In the "Compendium of Materia Medica", it is said that Dendrobium is able to "clear the stomach, remove the heat, produce fluid, and replenish the strain. It can be used as a substitute for tea to improve the appetite and strengthen the spleen. Famous Peking Opera artist Mr. Mei Lanfang also commonly used dendrobium decoction as tea to protect the voice and health. In folklore, Dendrobium has been listed as the first of the Chinese "nine great herbs". It is said that in the past, people fed the juice of fresh Dendrobium into the mouth of extremely weak and critical patients to revive them slowly. Because the dendrobium is attached to cliffs and cliffs, coupled with indiscriminate harvesting, the resources have been reduced, and is now listed as a national second-class protection of Chinese medicinal herbs.

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Dendrobium is a perennial evergreen herb of Orchidaceae, mainly produced in Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Guangdong, Hubei and other places. Medicinal parts for the dendrobium, dendrobium, dendrobium, ring grass dendrobium, dendrobium, dendrobium, dendrobium, yellow grass dendrobium and other stems of the same genus of many plants. Among them, those with round stems and iron-green skin are called "Dendrobium Ironhide", which is stronger; while those with flat stems and yellowish-green skin are called "Dendrobium Hairpin", which is weaker. Can be harvested throughout the year, but in the fall after the harvest of the best quality, with boiling water slightly hot, rubbing the side of the drying sun, to the leaf sheaths rubbed clean, dry; or fresh. Fresh dendrobium is strong in clearing heat and generating fluids, and dried dendrobium is better in nourishing yin.

Effects

Effects nourishing the stomach and generating fluids, nourishing yin and removing heat, brightening the eyes and strengthening the waist.

These ingredients are used in the following ways: 1. for dry mouth and tongue, thirst and sweating, dry vomiting and constipation caused by yin deficiency, 2. for deficiency of internal heat caused by yin deficiency, 3. for dizziness caused by deficiency of yin in liver and kidney, 4. for dizziness and blurred vision caused by deficiency of yin in liver and kidney.

Identification of authenticity

Pseudo dendrobium has stone cactus, Yunnan stone cactus, fine-leaved stone cactus, etc. The main differences between the fake and genuine dendrobium are as follows:

1. The fake products are pseudo-bulbs of stone cactus plants, not the genuine medicinal parts of the stem.

2. The pseudo-bulbs are dried, strongly longitudinal wrinkled fusiform, long fusiform or ovate or ovate-oblong, thick in the middle section, the two sections are finer.

3. All have round-like leaf scars at the tip, with most of the pits on the surface of the leaf scars and a horseshoe-shaped demarcation in the center (for the demarcation of the two leaf scars).

4. No links and internodes, light or loosely blistered.

Note

1. The active ingredients in Dendrobium are mainly alkaloids, most of which are difficult to dissolve in water. In the decoction, in order to increase the solubility of its active ingredients, should prolong the decoction time, can be first decoction 1 ~ 2 hours, and then with other medicines. 2. dendrobium easy to convergence of the evil, so warm and feverish disease should not be used early. 3. dendrobium is easy to help wet, wet temperature is not a dry person should not be used. 4. the spleen and stomach cold people avoid.