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This product is the cork-winged branches or cork wings of the plant Winged Euonymus (Euonymus alatus (Thunb.) Sieb.) from the Winged Euonymus family. It grows on mountain slopes, forest edges in valleys, or in thickets. It is distributed throughout the country except for a few provinces and regions such as Xinjiang. The winged branches or small branches with wings are harvested in summer and autumn, with the tender branches and leaves removed, and then dried in the sun.

bubble_chart Morphological Characteristics

Winged Euonymus is a deciduous shrub, 1-3 meters tall, entirely glabrous, with green twigs and gray-brown old branches, bearing 2-4 longitudinal corky wings, up to 1 cm wide, brown, rarely wingless. Leaves are simple and opposite, obovate to obovate-elliptic or broadly lanceolate, 3-7 cm long, 1-3 cm wide, apex acuminate or shortly acute, base cuneate, margins finely and sharply serrate, glabrous on both sides, petiole 1-2 mm long or sessile. Cymes are axillary, usually with 3 flowers, peduncles slender, 5-20 mm long; flowers small, bisexual, sepals 4, semicircular; petals 4, yellow-green, obovate, about 3.5 mm long, margins sometimes slightly wavy; stamens 4, filaments not exceeding the anthers, attached to the edge of the disk; disk thick, shallowly 4-lobed; ovary fused with the disk, 4-celled, style short. Capsules are purplish, smooth, deeply lobed, usually 1-3 carpels developed; seeds brown, elliptic, covered with orange-red aril. Flowering period is May-June; fruiting period is September-October.

The dried twigs are slender and cylindrical, 40-50 cm long, 0.4-1 cm in diameter, surface gray-green, with longitudinal wrinkles, bearing gray-brown corky wings on all sides, resembling arrow feathers, branches hard and tough, fracture pale yellow-white, fibrous; corky wings are flat, elongated, thin, usually about 4 cm long, 0.4-1 cm wide, about 2 mm thick, surface gray-brown, with fine, dense, straight or slightly wavy longitudinal lines. Light and brittle, easily broken, fracture relatively smooth, brown-red. Odor slight, taste slightly bitter and astringent. The best quality is characterized by dry, uniform twigs with complete corky wings.

bubble_chart Properties and Meridians

• Benjing: bitter, cold.
• "Wu Pu materia medica": bitter, nontoxic.
• Yaoxing Lun: slightly toxic.
• Rihuazi Bencao: sweet and astrigent.
• Gangmu: sour and astrigent.

" materia medica summary": act on foot jueyin meridian.

bubble_chart Efficacy

Breaking blood stasis, promoting menstruation, and killing worms.

bubble_chart Indications

For amenorrhea, abdominal mass, postpartum stasis abdominal pain, and parasitic abdominal pain.

bubble_chart Documentation

1. Benjing: "For women with menorrhagia and bleeding, abdominal distension and fullness, and sweating."
2. Bielu: "For abdominal pain caused by attack of noxious factors, expels white worms, eliminates skin wind-toxin swelling, and relieves discomfort in the private parts."
3. Yaoxing Lun: "Breaks up stagnant blood, induces abortion. For abdominal pain in the waist caused by attack of noxious factors."
4. Tang Bencao: "Treats women's blood and qi disorders."
5. Rihuazi Bencao: "Promotes menstruation, breaks up masses, stops menorrhagia and leukorrhea, kills abdominal worms, and relieves postpartum abdominal pain."
6. 《Gaiwu Ming Shi Tu Kao》: "Treats swelling and toxins."

bubble_chart Usage and Dosage

The usual dosage is 6-9 grams, decocted in water for oral administration or used in pills and powders.

bubble_chart Cautions and Contraindications

"The Essentials of Materia Medica" states: "Not to be taken during pregnancy."