The efficacy and function of walnut diaphragm

When eating walnuts, you should have noticed the wooden membrane that separates the kernel in the walnut. Many people don’t know that the walnut diaphragm is actually a kind of medicinal material. The walnut diaphragm is also called the heartwood, which is an appropriate name. The heartwood has the effects of spermatorrhea, frequent urination, enuresis, metrorrhagia, leucorrhea, diarrhea, and dysentery. It’s just a bit troublesome to collect them, so the editor will introduce you to the relevant knowledge of the heartwood in detail below.

Introduction to Split Wood

Fenxinmu, a traditional Chinese medicine name. It is the woody septum inside the kernel of Juglans regia L., a plant of the Juglandaceae family. It is cultivated in all parts of my country, north and south. It has the effects of astringing semen, reducing urination, stopping bleeding and leukorrhea, and stopping diarrhea. Used for spermatorrhea, frequent urination and enuresis, metrorrhagia, leucorrhea, diarrhea and dysentery.

Preparation

Harvest mature drupes in autumn and winter, crack open the shells, take out the kernels, collect the woody membrane inside the kernels, and dry them in the sun.

Preparation method

Take the original medicinal materials and remove impurities.

Morphological characteristics

Walnut is also known as Qiang peach, Bo Ross, walnut, and Bo Shi Luo. Deciduous tree, 20-25m tall. The bark is grayish white, smooth when young and shallowly cracked when old. Branchlets covered with short glandular hairs, with obvious leaf scars and lenticels; winter buds covered with bud scales; pith white, lamellar. Odd-pinnate compound leaves, alternate, 40-50cm long, with 5-9 leaflets, sometimes 13, the tip of which is often larger, elliptic-ovate to oblong, 6-15cm long, 3-6cm wide, obtuse or acute at the tip, oblique, nearly rounded at the base, entire, dark green and shiny on the surface, light green on the back, with 11-19 pairs of lateral veins, and a tuft of short soft hairs in the vein axils. The flowers are unisexual, monoecious, and open at the same time as the leaves. The male catkins are axillary, drooping, 5-10 cm long, with small and dense flowers. The male flowers have 1 oblong bract, 2 long ovate bracteoles, 1-4 tepals, all covered with glandular hairs, and 6-30 stamens. The female inflorescence is spike-shaped, erect, grown at the top of young branches, usually with 1-3 female flowers, 3 involucral bracts, long ovate, attached to the ovary, and enlarged with the ovary after flowering; the perianth is 4-lobed, the lobes are linear, and higher than the involucral bracts.

Growth environment

Grown in mountainous and hilly areas. It is cultivated in all parts of my country, north and south.

Medicinal properties