What are the latest processing methods for Cornus officinalis

Cornus officinalis is a common traditional Chinese medicinal herb, usually processed into “Shanyu Rou”, and “Jiuyu Rou” is also used. “Shanyu Rou” is processed from harvested Cornus officinalis, while “Jiuyu Rou” is made by stir-frying Shanyu Rou with wine. Let's take a look at the processing methods of Cornus officinalis below!

Processing Methods of Cornus officinalis

1. Shanyu Rou: Take harvested Cornus officinalis, steam until soft and thoroughly cooked, remove the core, and sun-dry.

2. Jiuyu Rou: Take clean Shanyu Rou, add yellow rice wine, mix well and moisten thoroughly, place in a suitable container, seal, stew over water until the wine is fully absorbed, remove, and dry. For every 100 kg of Cornus officinalis flesh, use 20 kg of yellow rice wine.

Efficacy and Indications of Cornus officinalis

[Nature and Flavor] Sour and astringent in taste, slightly warm in nature.

[Meridian Tropism] Enters the liver and kidney meridians.

[Efficacy] Tonifies and benefits the liver and kidneys, astringes and stabilizes collapse.

[Indications] Used for dizziness and tinnitus, soreness and pain in the waist and knees, impotence and seminal emission, enuresis and frequent urination, metrorrhagia and leukorrhea, profuse sweating and collapse, and internal heat with wasting-thirst.

Related Combinations of Cornus officinalis

1. To treat five types of lumbar pain, wind-cold in the lower jiao, and weakness of the waist and legs: Achyranthes root 1 liang (remove the sprouts), Cornus officinalis 1 liang, cinnamon heart 3 fen. Grind the above medicines into fine powder and sieve into a powder. Before each meal, take 2 qian mixed with warm wine. (Sheng Hui Fang)

2. To benefit primordial yang, tonify primordial qi, stabilize primordial essence, and strengthen primordial spirit: Cornus officinalis (soaked in wine) flesh 1 jin, Psoralea corylifolia (soaked in wine for one day, roasted dry) half a jin, Angelica sinensis 4 liang, musk 1 qian. Grind the above into fine powder, refine with honey into pills the size of Firmiana seeds. Take 81 pills each time, taken before bedtime with wine and salt water. (Fu Shou Jing Fang, Caohuan Dan)

3. To treat various cold-warm exogenous diseases, inability to recover after a serious illness, alternating chills and fever, profuse dripping of vacuous sweat, or fever without chills, sweating with resolution of fever, and soon fever and sweating again, with the eyes turning upward. When the condition is critical and about to collapse, or there is panting and counterflow, or palpitations, or qi deficiency insufficient for breathing, if any one of these signs appears: Cornus flesh (with the pits completely removed) 2 liang, raw fossilized dragon bone (crushed fine) 1 liang, raw oyster shell (crushed fine) 1 liang, raw Hangzhou peony root 6 qian, wild Tai ginseng 4 qian, licorice (honey-roasted) 3 qian. Decoct in water and take. (Zhong Zhong Can Xi Lu, Laifu Tang)