Sarsaparilla

This product is a liliaceous plant Smilax China Smilax China L. ( British) Chinaroot Greenbrier Rhizome
Alias: King Kong thorn, thorn of Jingangteng, mullet, white tuckahoe.
Plant morphology: deciduous climbing shrub. Stems slender hard, there is sparse. Leaves alternate, flowering leaves young; leathery or papery, shiny, ovoid over elliptic, long 2.5 ~ 13cm, 2.1 ~ 10cm wide, apex rounded or with convex head, base rounded or shallowly cordate, slightly glaucous beneath; petioles 5 ~ 15cm, sides with tendrils, the lower half of a sheath. Umbels axillary; flowers unisexual, tepals 6, yellow or yellowish green; male flowers: stamens 6; female flowers with staminodes 6, ovary superior. Berry is globose, ripe when pink. Florescence 4 to May.
Born in the hillside forest and barren mountain grassland. Distributed in the East and Guangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Henan.
Sampling: annual or late autumn to spring for digging, dry cleaned.
Traits: the roots of irregular shape or slightly flat columnar, has raised nodules, length 10 ~ 20cm, 1 ~ 2.4cm in diameter. Surface yellowish brown or purplish brown, slightly uneven, with the conical protrusion, its apex left hard fine root breaking mark. Quality very solid, broken red brown, coarse fiber. Bitter taste.
Chemical composition: including smilacin A, B, C ( smilax-saponinA, B, C ), the other containing alkaloids, amino acids, sugars, phenolic.
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Taste: flat, sweet, sour.
Functions: Qufeng Lishi, detoxification and removing stasis. For joint pain, muscle numbness, diarrhea, dysentery, boils, gonorrhea, edema, hemorrhoids, swollen poison.

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