NO.14 Qinjiao-Learn a herb every day

🌱Qinjiao qín jiāo, the dried root of Gentianaceae plants Qinjiao, Mahua Qinjiao, Thick Stem Qinjiao or Small Qinjiao

🌱Alias: Qinjiao, Qinjiu, Zuoqinjiao

Characteristics • Gentiana macrophylla is a perennial herb, 30 - 60 cm tall. Its roots are conical, with a prominent taproot and yellow-brown outer skin. The stem is erect or oblique, single. The leaves are lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, the basal leaves are larger, entire, and smooth on both sides. The flowers are mostly blue-purple, cymes.

🌱Origin• Mainly produced in Gansu, Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia, Sichuan and other places.

🌱Nature and flavor: Qinjiao is pungent, bitter, and neutral. It enters the stomach, liver, and gallbladder meridians.

🌱Main effects: It can eliminate rheumatism, clear dampness and heat, stop pain and relieve deficiency fever. It is often used to treat rheumatism, hemiplegia due to stroke, muscle spasm, joint pain, damp-heat jaundice and other symptoms.

🌱How to use• It can be taken orally, the dosage of decoction is generally 3-10 grams. It can also be made into pills or powders. For external use, grind into powder and sprinkle.

🌱Growing environment • Gentiana macrophylla grows on hillside grasslands, roadsides and riverbanks at an altitude of 1800-4500 meters. It likes a humid and cool climate environment, is cold-resistant and shade-tolerant, and has low requirements for soil, but grows better in fertile and loose soil.

🌱How to distinguish good from bad • High-quality Qinjiao root strips are thick and long, brown-yellow in color, firm in texture, and have a strong smell. While inferior Qinjiao root strips are thin, light in color, and loose in texture.

🌱Precautions• Those with chronic illness, coldness, frequent urination, and loose stools should not take it. The use of Qinjiao should be carried out under the guidance of a doctor to avoid adverse reactions due to excessive or inappropriate use.

🌱Characteristics: The dried roots of Gentianaceae plants Gentiana macrophylla, Gentiana macrophylla G, Gentiana macrophylla thick stem or Gentiana macrophylla small. Dig in spring and autumn, remove the mud and sand, and dry the Gentiana macrophylla and Gentiana macrophylla in the sun. When the surface is reddish yellow or grayish yellow, spread it out to dry, or directly dry it without "sweating". The black skin of Gentiana macrophylla is rubbed off while it is fresh and dried. Gentiana macrophylla is cylindrical, thick on the top and thin on the bottom, twisted and not straight, 10~30cm long, 1~3cm straight. The surface is yellow-brown or grayish yellow, with longitudinal or twisted longitudinal wrinkles, and there are residual stem bases and fibrous leaf sheaths at the top.

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