Spring Root Vine Name: Stretch Root Vine Psychotria serpens Linn Alias: Spring Root Vine, Wearing Root Vine, Tsubaki Root Vine, Iron Bone Spring Root, Sichuan Tendon Vine, Spring Root Vine Chai, Fragrant Tendon Chai, Betel Nut Flower Characteristics: Stretch Root Vine, the Chaozhou-Shantou region alias known as. It is also known as Songshenzhen vine in other places. This product is a root-piercing vine of the family Rubiaceae. It is a small perennial trailing shrub. Born in the mountains, ditches, slopes, pits.　Taste and attribution: slightly sweet, astringent, warm, non-toxic.　Functions and Indications: It is used internally to dispel wind and dampness, invigorate blood circulation, relieve tendons and strengthen bones, and enter the liver and kidney meridians. Indications: Arthralgia, rheumatic limb pain, lumbago, foot root pain.　Properties: Xinshenteng is the stem of Chinese Green Ox Gall Bladder, a plant of the family Fangji.　Chinese green cow gall deciduous woody vine, 3-10 meters long. Young branches are pilose, old branches are glabrous, with many lenticels. Leaves alternate; broadly ovate to orbicular-ovate, 7 to 12 cm long, 5 to 10 cm wide, apex cuspidate, base cordate, hispidulous above, tomentose below, basal veins 5 to 7; petiole 4 to 10 cm long, pilose. Racemes axillary, opening before leaves; unisexual; flowers yellowish. Infructescence ca. 10 cm, drupe bright red, endocarp semiovoid, 8-10 mm long, flat ventrally, abaxially with ribbed ridges and numerous small verrucose projections. Seeds ca. 5 mm, hemispherical, ventral surface sunken. Flowering period March to April. Fruiting July-August. Born in forests.　Distribution: Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, and other places. It can be collected all year round, cut the above ground part, remove the shoots and leaves, cut into pieces and dry in the sun.　Other efficacy 1, the treatment of rheumatic arthritis pain: 30 grams of elongation vine, and pig's feet * * * boiled, drink wine and eat meat soup.　2, the treatment of hand joint pain: 30 grams of elongation vine, 15 grams of Guanyin string, with lean pork * * * cooked, punch wine, drink soup and eat meat.　The treatment of lumbar aches and pains: stretching vine, nail root 30 grams each, decoction, punch wine a small amount of service.　4, the treatment of pain in the waist and feet: stretching vine, nail root 30 grams each, decoction, a small amount of wine service.　5, the treatment of lumbar sprains: 30 grams of tendon vine, 15 grams of bone consumption, decoction, drink.　6, the treatment of rheumatism limb pain: 30 grams of tendon vine, boiled pig foot section, or boiled pig bone drink soup and eat meat.　This product is commonly used internal vine, leaves or roots of 30-60 grams of raw products, 15-30 grams of dried products. (Note: There is a distinction between large-sized elongated vine and small-sized spring root vine, but their functions are the same.)　Nutritional Analysis Snake meat contains a variety of essential amino acids, including glutamic acid, which enhances the vitality of brain cells, and aspartic acid and other nutrients that can relieve the body of fatigue, is a good food for brain workers. Snake meat has the effect of strengthening the nerves and prolonging life. Its protein contains eight essential amino acids, and cholesterol content is very low, to prevent and control vascular sclerosis has a certain role, while there is nourishing the skin and skin care, regulating the body's metabolism function. Snake meat contains calcium, magnesium and other elements, is in the form of protein fusion exists, and thus more convenient for the body to absorb and utilize so on the prevention of cardiovascular disease and osteoporosis, inflammation or tuberculosis is very necessary. Snake meat is rich in nutrients, fat contains linoleic acid and other components, while the cholesterol content is lower than pig liver, eggs, etc., to prevent and control vascular sclerosis and other effects.　Unsuitable people Pregnant women and postpartum should not take.　Food Compatibility Snake shedding afraid of magnetite and wine.　Therapeutic effect Sinew and vine flavor slightly bitter, cool nature; has the effect of relaxing the tendons and activating collaterals, clearing heat and promoting dampness; the main treatment of rheumatism and musculoskeletal pain, lumbar muscle strain, bruises Sinew and grass stolon is thin cylindrical, slightly curved, up to 2m long, 1 ~ 3mm in diameter, under which there is a yellowish-white fine root. Erect stems for bifurcated branches. Leaves are densely packed on the stem, spirally arranged, wrinkled and curved, linear or needle-shaped, 3 to 5mm long, yellowish green to yellowish brown, glabrous, apex awned, entire, easily broken. The texture is soft, the broken surface of the skin part of light yellow, wood part of the white. Odorless, tasteless. Chinese name:马尾伸筋 Latin name: rhizome of Whiteback Greenbrier Alias: ox-tail vegetable, big smooth tendon vine, big stretching tendon, Hundred stretching tendon, water shaking bamboo, etc. Binomial name: rhizomeof Whiteback Greenbrier马尾伸筋 ma wei shen jin Alias: ox-tail vegetable, big smooth tendon vine, big stretching tendon, Hundred stretching tendon, water shaking bamboo, etc. Bibi shen jin, water shaking bamboo, shen jin grass, longbeard grass, oxtail shen jin, oxtail section, oxtail roll, water bulb flower, big leaf shen jin, oxtail fern. Stretching the tendons Name verification: ox-tail cabbage ("rescue the desert materia medica"), large Shunshun tendon vine ("botanical names and facts"), large stretching the tendons ("Chinese medicine"), hundred stretching the tendons, water shaking the bamboo, stretching the tendons grass, Longshu Cao, cattle tail stretching the tendons, cattle tail section, cattle tail rolls, water bulb flower, large-leaved stretching the tendons, Ox-tail fern ("Hunan Drugs Zhi) for the family of stone pines, genus Stone Pine, plant Lycopodium japonicum It is the whole herb of Lycopodium japonicum in the family of Stone Pine. It is bitter, pungent and warm, and enters the liver meridian. Effects Disperses wind and disperses cold. Dispels wind and cold, removes dampness and swellings, and soothes tendons and activates collaterals. Applications For wind-cold and dampness paralysis, contracture of tendons and veins, pain and carbuncle. Externally used for treating bruises and sprains. 1. Wind-cold and dampness paralysis, limb weakness and numbness. This product is pungent, bitter, dry, warm, can dispel wind-dampness, into the liver especially good through the meridians. Treatment of wind-cold-dampness paralysis, joint pain, flexion and extension of unfavorable, and Qiang Wu, Duhuo, Gui Zhi, white peony, etc.; if the limbs are weak, numbness of the skin, it is appropriate to use with the pine joints, looking for the bone wind, Weiling Xian and so on. 2. Bruises and injuries. This product can be used to relax the tendons and activate the collaterals, reduce swelling and relieve pain, treatment of bruises, bruises and pain, more with the hematopoietic and collaterals, earthworm, safflower, peach kernel and other blood circulation medicines, internal and external cleansing can be used. Appendix C Treatment of joint pain: ox-tail cabbage five money, one or two roadside thorns, one or two mouse thorns, five money of Siegesbeckia. Decoction with water. ("Hunan Drugs") ⒈ "Materia Medica Gleanings": "The master has long suffered from wind paralysis, foot and knee pain and cold, the skin is not benevolent, the gas is weak."　2. "Yunnan Materia Medica": "Stone Pine, its nature to go and not guard, its use of sinking and not floating, get betel nut good."　3. "Hunan Drugs": soothe the tendons and activate blood, replenish the qi and open the channels. Treats lumbago, joint pain, amenorrhea.　Singed "Botanical Names and Facts": treats tendons and bones, passes the joints.　Selected from Jiangxi Traditional Chinese Medicine: It is used to treat lumbar pain, crotch pain, leg pain and other pains.　Selected: "Pale in flavor."　Borrow "Hunan Drugs": "Sweet, flat. Non-toxic." Into the heart, kidney two meridians. Boundary: Botanical family: Liliaceae Distribution area: Guangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Shaanxi and other places These two kinds of traditional Chinese medicine, although both are the treatment of joint pain and so on, but it can be sure that it is not the same kind of traditional Chinese medicine.