Nicknames: Double Hook Vine, Eagle Claw Wind, Hanging Wind Root, Golden Hook Grass, Inverted Hanging Thorn
Harvesting and processing: Harvesting tender branches with hooks in spring and autumn, cutting off the stems without hooks, drying them in the sun, or steaming them in a pot before drying them again.
Medicinal parts: Hooked branches
Origin: Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan
Family: Rubiaceae
Original plant: Large leaved hooked vine
Plant condition: Evergreen woody vine
12-15 meters in length; The small branches are slightly flattened, while the old branches are square prism shaped. When young, they are covered with brown coarse hairs along with hooks, and the hairs fall off as they grow.
Leaves opposite, leathery, broadly elliptical or elongated elliptical, 10-16 cm long, 6-12 cm wide, apex acute or rounded, base rounded or heart-shaped, smooth or covered with short hairs along the midrib, brown short coarse hairs below; The petiole is thick and sturdy, measuring 6-10 millimeters in length; The supporting leaves are 2-lobed and 8-10 millimeters long.
Large leaved hooked vine: spherical inflorescence, axillary and terminal, diameter 4-4.5 cm; The total stem length is 3.5-6.5 centimeters, and it is covered with yellow coarse hairs along with the petiole; Five flowers, covered with brown coarse hair and fragrant; Calyx tube tube shaped, lobes strip-shaped lanceolate, about 3 millimeters long; The corolla is light yellow, about 15 millimeters long, and the lobes are ovate, about 2 millimeters long.
The capsule has a distinct stalk, spindle shaped, measuring 10-15 millimeters in length, covered with hairs, and topped with calyx lobes measuring 4 millimeters in length. Flowering period in summer.
Characteristics of Gouteng large leaved Gouteng medicinal herb: The stem and branches of large leaved Gouteng are square and columnar, with deep longitudinal grooves on both sides and a diameter of 2-5mm. The surface is gray brown to light brown, covered with brown fur, especially at the nodes and hook ends. The hook is 1.7-3.5cm long, deeply bent inward to form a semicircle, and the end swells into a small ball. The sectional marrow is usually hollow, with occasional marrow.
High quality products are best if they are hard in texture, reddish brown or brownish brown in color, and have hooks.
[Taste] Sweet, cool.
Return to the liver and pericardium meridians.
【 Indications and Functions 】 Clearing heat and calming the liver, calming the wind and calming the nerves. Used for headaches, dizziness, chills, seizures, and preeclampsia during pregnancy; hypertension.
【 Usage and Dosage 】 3-12g, it is recommended to add it to the decoction before use.
[Storage] Store in a dry place.
【 Discussions from Various Schools 】
1. "Bielu": The protagonist is a child with cold and heat, and seizures.
2. "Treatise on Medicinal Properties": The protagonist is a child crying in shock, with fever and chills.
3. "Rihuazi Bencao": Treating clients who defy the fetal wind.
4. "Gangmu": Dazzling and dizzy head, calm liver wind, relieve heart heat, cause abdominal pain and rash in children.
5. "Compendium of Materia Medica": Relax tendons and eliminate dizziness, with a wide and moderate lower Qi.
6. "Compendium of Materia Medica": Treat stroke paralysis, oblique mouth and eyes, as well as all hand and foot pain and limb spasms. For those who have been suffering from gout paralysis for a long time and have been experiencing rapid and painful muscle and pulse constriction.
7. "Gangmu": Gouteng is a Yin medicine for the hands and feet. Foot Jueyin controls the wind, hand Jueyin controls the fire, and convulsions and dizziness are all diseases of liver wind and fire. Gouteng connects the pericardium to the liver wood, and when the wind is calm and the fire is extinguished, all symptoms will be eliminated.
8. "Compendium of Materia Medica": Gouteng is a medicinal herb that can dispel wind and phlegm, calm down restlessness, alleviate discomfort, and combat acne. Mr. Qian Zhongyang said: Junteng is warm, mild, non-toxic, and is highly valued by infants. Its nature is auspicious, dispelling wind and phlegm, opening and closing qi, calming the restlessness of the warehouse in a moment of busyness, dispelling internal cold with hemp and cassia, relieving intense heat with qin and lian, dispelling external evil with the same method as before and Ge, dispelling stagnant food with the same method as Cha and Pu, dispelling the vague appearance of acne with mouse stickiness, bellflower, Qiang, Fang, and purple grass mushrooms, dispelling wind evil without dryness, and reaching the middle to the harmonious level. But after being boiled for a long time, it becomes powerless. Once the medicine is cooked for more than ten boiling points, it can be put into use and is quite effective. Using tender hooks to remove memes, the skill is ten times stronger.
9. "Newly Compiled Materia Medica": Gouteng has a fast wind removal effect and is suitable for those with wind symptoms. But the origin of wind and fire is often due to insufficient kidney water, resulting in dryness and fire inflammation. In nourishing yin medicine, using less hooked vine can easily disperse wind and fire. If all yin is not replenished and hooked vine is used purely to dispel wind and fire, the wind cannot rest and the fire will become more intense.