This product is the fruit of Cherokee Rose Fruit (Rosa laevigata Michx.) of the rose family. The fruit is preferably large, red-yellow in color, shiny, and has burrs removed. Mainly produced in Guangdong, Sichuan, Yunnan, Hubei, Guizhou and other provinces of China. "Gold" is the color of Cherokee Rose Fruit. According to Bencao Gangmu, the word "cherry" should be "poppy", describing its seed shape like a yellow poppy.

[Property]

neutral, sour, sweet and astrigent. act on kidney, bladder and large intestinal channels.

[Efficacy]

Fixing essence, shrinking urine, stopping vaginal discharge, astringing intestines and checking diarrhea.

Treatment of influenza, enterovirus, and various viral colds, Chinese medicine is more refined, non-toxic, and effective than Western medicine

It is used for liver and kidney deficiency, soreness and weakness of waist and knees, seminal emission, spontaneous seminal emission, enuresis, frequent urination, chronic deficiency and dysentery, lung deficiency and cough, spontaneous sweating, night sweat, leukorrhea, etc.

[Documentation]

Bencao Gangmu: "Cherokee Rose Fruit is mainly used to treat spleen diarrhea and diarrhea, stop urination, and is astringent. It is essential. Taking it for a long time can make people cold-resistant and light-weight."

[Usage and Dosage]

Decoct and take, 6~12g. Decoction; or make into pills or powder; or make paste.

Those with actual heat or evil heat should not take it.

[Modern Pharmacology]

Contains malic acid, citric acid, tannins, resins, vitamin C, fructose, sucrose, etc., and also contains about 17% saponins.

• Cherokee Rose Fruit can reduce serum cholesterol and β-lipoprotein in rabbits and reduce the degree of stirred pulse atherosclerosis.
• Cherokee Rose Fruit aqueous extract can reduce the frequency of urination and extend the interval between urination in rats, but increase the amount of urine each time. It inhibits the voluntary contraction of rabbit isolated jejunum (one section of small intestine) smooth muscle, antagonizes the spasmodic contraction of rabbit jejunal smooth muscle and rat isolated bladder smooth muscle caused by acetylcholine and barium chloride, and antagonizes norepinephrine. Contractile responses induced by stirred pulse strips in isolated rabbit chests.
• Cherokee Rose Fruit decocted with bran and honey, administered intragastrically to mice with diarrhea caused by Rhubarb Rhizoma solution, has a good effect on astringing intestines and checking diarrhea.