The efficacy and function of Yunnan olives

Yunnan olive, also known as emblica, is a relatively common Chinese medicine. It has a very good health-care and health-preserving effect. It has a very good therapeutic effect on colds, fever, and sore throats. It also has a very good health-care effect on vitamin C deficiency. It can also treat asthma. It can also play a very good detoxification role in puffer fish poisoning among the people. It has a certain therapeutic and preventive effect on symptoms such as dry mouth, toothache, etc.

The efficacy of Yunnan olives

【Nature and flavor】Fruit: sweet, slightly astringent, cool.

【Meridian】 Spleen; Stomach meridian

【Functions and indications】Fruit: cold and fever, sore throat, cough, dry mouth and thirst, toothache, vitamin C deficiency.

1. "Tang Materia Medica": It is used to treat wind-deficiency heat.

2. "Supplement to Compendium of Materia Medica": Mainly used for nourishing and strengthening the body. Take the seeds, squeeze the juice and mix it with oil, apply it on the head to grow hair and relieve itching. Hair will fall out when it is first applied, but will grow back like lacquer later.

3. "Haiyao Bencao": It is used to treat shortness of breath and cough.

4. "Nanning Pharmacopoeia": Cools and detoxifies, treats throat numbness.

5. Guangzhou Army's "Handbook of Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicines": moistens the lungs and resolves phlegm, promotes the production of body fluids and quenches thirst.

The roots, stems, bark and leaves of the emblica plant are also used for various medicinal purposes by the people in various producing areas. According to the records of "National Compilation of Chinese Herbal Medicine" and "Yunnan Chinese Herbal Medicine", the comprehensive summary is as follows:

Emblica officinalis root: neutral in nature, light in taste. It can astringe, reduce inflammation and lower blood pressure. Used for stomachache, enteritis, icteric hepatitis, lymphadenopathy, hypertension, etc.

Emblica bark: cold in nature, sweet and sour in taste. It can astringe and stop bleeding. Used for enteritis, dysentery, traumatic bleeding, mouth ulcers, boils, hemorrhoids and other diseases.

Emblica leaves: neutral in nature, spicy in taste. It can remove dampness and promote diuresis. Used for edema, dermatitis, eczema, sores and other diseases.

[Usage and Dosage] Fruit: 10 to 30 pieces, root: 0.5 to 1 liang, leaf 3 to 6 qian; apply externally in appropriate amount, decoct in water and wash the affected area.

Functions of Phyllanthus emblica:

1. Treat cold, fever, cough, sore throat, dry throat, thirst, and vitamin C deficiency: 10 to 30 fresh emblica fruits. Decoction in water (Guangzhou Army "Handbook of Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicines")

2. To treat diphtheria: one catty of Yunnan olives, one ounce each of Scrophularia and Glycyrrhiza. Soak in cold boiled water until frost appears, take out the frost, spread it out with cotton paper and dry it in the sun, then add 2 qian of horsetail gentian powder, 5 fen of borneol, and 5 qian of fried ginkgo kernel powder, and use it for blowing through the throat.

3. To treat asthma: Take 21 Yunnan olives, boil the pig heart and lungs first, then add the olives to the foam and cook until done. Eat with the soup.

4. Treatment of puffer fish poisoning: Eat Yunnan olives raw and swallow the juice, which can also treat fish bones stuck in the throat. (The following 2 prescriptions are from "Commonly Used Herbal Medicines in Kunming")