What plant is Tianjiang shell? This article introduces it to you

Tianjiang shell is the fruit shell of the dicotyledonous medicinal plant Roumou (Metaplexis japonica) of the Asclepiadaceae family. The fruit shell is boat-shaped, with an outer surface that is yellow-green or gray-yellow, uneven, and with fine longitudinal striations, and an inner surface that is yellow-white and smooth. Used as medicine, it has the effects of clearing the lungs and resolving phlegm, and dissipating blood stasis and stopping bleeding, and has a certain therapeutic effect on conditions such as cough with copious phlegm and incomplete eruption of measles.

1. Medicinal effects of Tianjiang shell

Nature and flavor: sweet and pungent in flavor, neutral in nature.

Meridian entry: lung and kidney meridians.

Effects: clears the lungs and resolves phlegm, dissipates blood stasis and stops bleeding. Mainly used for cough with copious phlegm, asthma, whooping cough, convulsions, incomplete eruption of measles, traumatic injuries, and external bleeding.

2. Medicinal formulas of Tianjiang shell

1. To treat hematemesis and deficiency damage: Roumou (Metaplexis japonica), Digupi (Lycium chinense root bark), Baiziren (Platycladus orientalis seed), and Wuweizi (Schisandra chinensis) three liang each. Grind the above into a fine powder and take it on an empty stomach with rice water.

2. To treat impotence: Roumou root, Yinyanghuo root (Epimedium), and Xianmao root (Curculigo orchioides) three qian each. Decoct in water and take, one dose per day.

3. To treat nephritis edema: Roumou root one liang, decoct in water and take. One dose per day.

4. To treat consumptive injury: Roumou vine root, stew with chicken and take.

5. To treat scrofula: Roumou root seven qian to one liang. Decoct in water and take, with sweet wine as a guiding agent, one dose per day.

Although Tianjiang shell has certain medicinal value, it should be noted that those with deficiency-cold of the spleen and stomach should take it with caution.