Curly cypress juǎn bǎi
1.Origin: From "Divine Husbandman's Classic of the Materia Medica"
2.English: Tamariskoid Spikemoss Herb, Herb of Tamariskoid Spikemoss
3.Alias: Returning Soul Grass, Nine Deaths Returning Soul Grass, Great Returning Soul Grass, Leopard's Foot, Alias: Seek the stock, God cast time, cross time, stone lotus flower, back to the sun grass, immortality grass, immortality grass, ten thousand years of pine, longevity grass, stone flower, see the water to return to the sun grass, Buddha's hand grass, ten thousand years of youth, tiger's claw, the mountain fist cypress, fight not to die, Iron Fist, rocky pines, the leaves of the curly cypress, the curly cypress charcoal, Banzai, a handful of grasp, back to life, the life of the grass, the grass with life, ground grass
4. 5. Functions and Indications: Promoting blood circulation and menstruation. Indications: menstrual closure; obstruction in the abdomen; bruises; abdominal pain; asthma; hematemesis; blood in stool; blood in urine; epistaxis. Attention: forbidden to be taken by pregnant women.
6. Ecological environment: born in sunny mountain slopes or rock crevices, mostly in sunny dry rock crevices.
7. Resource distribution: It is distributed in the northeast, north, east, central and south China, Shaanxi, Sichuan, and most parts of the country.
Pharmacological effects
1. Anti-cancer effects: effective in chemical anticancer agents or radiation therapy for sensitive tumors; commonly used in chorionic epithelial carcinoma, malignant staphylococcus, nasal cancer, lung cancer, liver cancer. Tests have proved that: the hot water extract of the whole herb of Phellodendron Bark, measured by total cell volume method, the inhibition rate of mouse sarcoma-180% is 61.2%, and the inhibition rate of the ethanol extract is 18.6%; in vivo experiments of this product, it has certain inhibitory effect on mouse Ehrlich's asparagus carcinoma, and it can prolong the lifespan of the transplanted animals with tumors. The in vitro experiment of the plant of the same family, Cyperus rotundus (deep green cypress), also has high anticancer activity. Clinical practice has observed that it has the best efficacy on cancer tumors with small tumors.
2. Hemostatic effect: Cortex Phellodendron Bark is used to stop bleeding.
3. Bacteriostatic effect: 100% decoction of Phellodendron Bark has inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus by plate hole method.
4. Antispasmodic effect: the celery glycoside element contained has moderate antispasmodic effect on smooth muscle. Experiments by guinea pigs and rats showed that there is also a weak anti-gastric ulcer effect