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This product is the vine stem of the leguminous climbing shrub Spatholobus suberectus (Spatholobus suberectus Dunn). It is mainly produced in Guangxi. It is harvested in autumn and winter, with the branches and leaves removed, sliced, and dried.

Plants of the same family, such as Millettia dielsiana (Millettia dielsiana Harms), are also used as suberect spatholobus stem, with similar medicinal properties and efficacy.

bubble_chart Morphological Characteristics

This product is elliptical, oblong, or irregularly oblique slices, 0.3-1 cm thick. The cork is gray-brown, some with gray-white spots, and the exposed area after cork shedding appears red-brown. The cut surface shows a red-brown or brown wood part with numerous vessel pores; the phloem contains resinous secretions ranging from red-brown to black-brown, arranged alternately with the wood part in 3-8 eccentric semicircular rings; the pith is biased to one side. The texture is hard. The odor is slight, and the taste is astringent.

bubble_chart Properties and Meridians

Bitter and sweet, warm. Act on liver meridian.

bubble_chart Efficacy

Promoting blood circulation, tonifying blood, regulating menstruation, relaxing sinews, and activating collaterals.

bubble_chart Indications

1. Used for menstrual irregularities, dysmenorrhea, blood deficiency amenorrhea, etc. This product can both invigorate blood and tonify blood, suitable for syndromes of blood stasis and blood deficiency. If caused by stasis, it is combined with Sichuan Lovage Rhizome, Carthamus, Cyperus, etc., to invigorate blood and resolve stasis to regulate menstruation; if caused by blood deficiency, it is combined with Prepared Rehmannia Root, Chinese Angelica, etc., to nourish blood and regulate menstruation.
2. Used for wind-dampness arthralgia, numbness of hands and feet, limb paralysis, blood deficiency shallow yellow, etc. This product can nourish blood and invigorate blood, relaxing sinews and activating collaterals, treating Bi disease, arthralgia, limb numbness, combined with wind-damp-dispelling medicinals; treating limb paralysis after apoplexy, combined with qi-tonifying and blood-nourishing medicinals to invigorate blood and unblock collaterals. For blood deficiency shallow yellow, it is combined with qi and blood tonifying and replenishing medicinals.
3. In modern times, suberect spatholobus stem syrup has shown certain efficacy in treating leukopenia.

bubble_chart Documentation

1. Compendium of Materia Medica Supplement: "Its vine is most effective in activating blood circulation, warming the waist and knees, and treating wind phlegm." Vine glue "strengthens tendons and bones, relieves soreness and pain, and can be taken with wine... Treats elderly people with qi and blood deficiency, weakness, numbness and paralysis of the hands and feet; male deficiency and inability to reproduce, as well as seminal emission and turbid discharge... Women with irregular menstruation, red leucorrhea, women with dry blood consumptive disease, and uterine coldness preventing conception."
2. New Reference on Medicinal Tablets: "Removes static blood, generates new blood, and promotes the smooth flow of meridians. Treats summer heat rash and wind blood impediment conditions."

bubble_chart Usage and Dosage

Decoct and take 10-15g, up to 30g for a large dose, or soak in wine for consumption, or boil into a paste for ingestion.

bubble_chart Modern Pharmacology

This product contains suberect spatholobus stem alcohol, iron, campesterol, stigmasterol, and sitosterol.

1. The decoction of spatholobus and chicken blood vine both have a tonifying blood effect on experimental anemic rabbits, with the effect of spatholobus being stronger than that of suberect spatholobus stem.
2. It has anti-inflammatory effects.
3. A small dose can enhance the rhythmic contraction of the uterus, with a larger dose causing more significant contractions, and the pregnant uterus is more sensitive than the non-pregnant uterus.
4. The decoction of suberect spatholobus stem has an inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus in vitro tests.