Medicinally Eleutherococcus is easy to use, in the forms of decoction, pills, or wine. Medicinal Eleutherococcus liquor, the Eleutherococcus bark based soaked wine, is a very popular tonic among the people.
There have been some reports that some cancer patients had ever tried to swallow live centipedes to fight this disease and it turned out that their life span and quality of life had been improved. This fact gives a glimmer of hope to a lot of cancer patients.
Besides of astringing the lung, galla chinensis can still clear away the lung-heat and stop bleeding by astringency. So it is ideal for coughing up mucus or blood; schisandra seed can also nourish kidney.
Rheumatism is a common disease that will bring the sufferers nothing but pain. As one of main ingredients in Chinese herbal medicine for rheumatic disease, it works fast and efficiently.
Today in modern medicine, cowherb has been widely used in the treatment of dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, blocked milk ducts in nursing mothers, and other gynecological diseases.
From the standpoint of Chinese herbal medicine, ark shell basically refers to the shells of arcidae species, in particular Arca subcrenata Lischke, Arca granosa Linnaeus, or Arca inflata Reeve.
In traditional Chinese medicine, it is commonly used in the treatment of diseases like infertility and fetal irritability. And in recent years a lot of progress has been made on the researches of this herb.
Sarsaparilla root can prevent vulnerable or frail women from gynecological diseases, especially gynecological inflammation. Another health benefit should be mentioned is its neutral medicinal properties, which are able to help heat constitution get cool and cold constitution get warm.
Thanks to its high medicinal value on dredging collaterals, treating injury, fixing injured tendon, and curing bone fracture, ground beetles is also known as “bonesetting beetle.”
Medicinally rice paper plant primarily refers to the dry pith of Tetrapanax papyriferum (Hook.) Koch, which is the only species in the genus Tetrapanax of the family Araliaceae.
From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, peppergrass seeds’ main health benefits are to descend Qi and promote water metabolism. Thus, it treats dyspnea due to phlegm obstructing the lung, cough caused by phlegm and fluid retention, edema, etc.
Medicinally bamboo silica refers to the dried siliceous resin found in the nodes of some species in the family Poaceae, mainly from Bambusa textilis McClure and Schizostachyum chinense Rendle.