What are the benefits of jujube tree roots

The roots of the jujube tree have certain medicinal value. They can help women regulate menstruation and stop bleeding, treat problems such as irregular menstruation, infertility, or metrorrhagia and vomiting blood. They can also treat stomach pain, numbness, and symptoms of spleen deficiency and diarrhea. So once we understand the benefits of jujube tree roots, we can use them correctly. Help yourself treat and resolve these illnesses and reduce adverse injuries.

Jujube is a deciduous shrub or small tree, up to 10m tall. There are long branches, short branches and new branches. The long branches are smooth and hairless. The young branches are slender and slightly curved, purple-red or gray-brown, with 2 stipular thorns. The long thorns can reach 3 cm, thick and straight, and the short thorns are curved, 4-6 mm long; the short branches are short and thick, oblong, and grow from old branches; the branchlets of the current year are green, drooping, solitary or clustered on the short branches in 2-7. Simple leaves are alternate, papery, with petioles 1-6mm long, up to 1cm on long branches; leaves are ovate, ovate-elliptical, 3-7cm long, 2-4cm wide, obtuse or rounded at the apex, with a small tip, slightly oblique, nearly rounded at the base, with fine serrations on the margins, dark green and glabrous above, light green and glabrous below or with sparse soft hairs along the veins; three-veined at the base.

Function and indications

Regulate menstruation and stop bleeding; dispel wind and relieve pain; tonify the spleen and stop diarrhea. Mainly used for irregular menstruation, infertility, metrorrhagia, hematemesis, stomachache, arthralgia, spleen deficiency diarrhea, urticaria, erysipelas

【Functions and indications】 Treats joint pain, stomach pain, vomiting blood, metrorrhagia, irregular menstruation, rubella, erysipelas.

① "Qian Jin Fang": "For children with fire dan, if it starts from the soles of the feet and is red, boil the juice and bathe five or six times."

② "Classification of Herbal Medicinal Properties": "Treats vomiting blood, metrorrhagia. Regulates menstruation."

③ "Sichuan Chinese Materia Medica": "It can promote lactation, clear away heat, and regulate menstruation. It can treat dampness and rheumatism in children." [Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decoction, 0.5-1 liang. For external use: decoct in water and wash. [Selected Prescriptions] ① Treat urticaria (wind dan): decoct jujube roots and camphor bark in water for bathing, twice a day. (Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine Records)

②Treat joint pain: 1 liang of jujube tree root and 5 qian of Acanthopanax acanthopanax bark. Decoction in water. (Jiangxi "Handbook of Herbal Medicine")

③Treat stomachache: 2 taels of fresh jujube tree roots and a pig tongue. Stew and eat. (Jiangxi "Handbook of Herbal Medicine")

By correctly understanding the effects of jujube tree roots, everyone should be careful when using them to treat and solve these diseases, because the method of using jujube tree roots to treat diseases must be paid attention to, and the amount used also has standards. Only when it is truly used according to the symptoms can the best effect be achieved.