This product is the tuber of Smilax glbra (Smilax glbra Roxb.), a perennial evergreen vine of the Lily Bulb family. Also known as Red Glabrous Greenbrier. It is distributed in all provinces in the southern part of the Yangtze River Basin. It can be harvested all year round, and it is better to harvest in late autumn and early winter. Remove the remaining stems and fibrous roots and dry them in the sun; cut them into tablets when fresh, dry them in the sun and use them raw.

[Property]

sweet and bland, neutral. act on liver and stomach channels.

[Efficacy]

removing toxin, dehumidification, joint relief.

1. Used for chinese wax myrtle bark, sores and limb spasms. This product is sweet and light, removes toxin draining dampness, and can relieve joint pain and detoxify mercury. Therefore, it is especially effective for people with syphilis or limb spasms caused by mercury poisoning due to syphilis. It is an important medicine for the treatment of syphilis. You can use 500g of this product alone, decocted with water to remove residue, add 30g of sugar, and fry into a thick decoction, twice a day, 1 to 2 tablespoons each time; you can also use this product with Lonicera , densefruit pittany root-bark, Chinese Clematis Root, Liquorice Root are the same.
2. Used for stranguria, leukorrhea, dampness-heat sores. This product is sweet and light, removing toxin draining dampness, so it can be used for heat stranguria, leukorrhea, sores and other diseases caused by dampness-heat. Used to treat heat stranguria, often used together with Akebia Stem, Dandelion, Plantain Seed; used to treat dampness-heat sores Poison, pruritus vuluae leukorrhea, often used together with Atractylodes Rhizome, Phelloendron Bark, Sophora and other drugs. This product is also equipped with Unprocessed Rehmannia Root, Red Peony Root, belvedere fruit, densefruit pittany root-bark, Virgate Wormwood is used equally and is effective in treating oxhide lichen (neurodermatitis) dampness-heat type.
3. In addition, in recent years, this product has been used alone or in combination with Heartleaf Houttuynia Herb, Prunella, Sea Gold Sand, Plantain Seed, Dyers Woad leaves, Shield-fern Rhizome and horsetail can be used together to prevent leptospirosis; or this product can be used with Liquorice Root, Sweet Wormwood, Sanguisorba, lalang grass rhizome, etc., decocted with water, used to treat leptozoa spirochetea, have achieved good results.

[Documentation]

1. " Materia Medica Steel Eyes": "Strengthens the spleen and stomach, strengthens muscles and bones, removes wind-dampness, sharpens joints, relieves diarrhea, cures spasmodic bone pain, malignant sores and carbuncles, and relieves mercury powder, silver and vermilion poison."
2. Bencao Beiyao: "Treat syphilitic skin lesions and scrofula."

[Usage and Dosage]

Decoct and take, 15-60g.

[Modern Pharmacology]

This product contains alkaloids, volatile oils, hexoses, tannic acid, phytosterols, α- and β-linoleic acid, oleic acid and starch.

This product can relieve mercury poisoning and can obviously antagonize the toxicity of gossypol, but has no significant effect on the inhibitory effect of gossypol on sperm activity.