What Are the Medical Uses of Eucommia Ulmoides?

Eucommia ulmoides Oliver (also known as Eucommia ulmoides Oliver), also known as Bakelite, is an Eucommia ulmoides plant. The tree can reach 20 meters in height and has a DBH of about 50 cm.

Eucommia ulmoides a warm and humid climate and an environment full of sunshine. It can withstand severe cold. Adult plants can survive normally at -30 ° C. They can be cultivated in most areas of China. They have strong adaptability and do not have strict choice of soil. Deep, loose, fertile, moist, and well-drained loam is most suitable. The growth rate of Eucommia ulmoides tree is relatively slow in its infancy, and the fast-growing period appears in 7-20 years. After 20 years, the growth rate decreases year by year. After 50 years, the tree height growth basically stops, and the plants naturally wither.

Mostly grow in low mountains of 300-500 meters above sea level,

Eucommia is an endemic species in China. Distributed in Shaanxi, Gansu, Henan (

Rhizoctonia solani

Diseases at the seedling stage mostly occur in the rainy season from April to June.

Eucommia ulmoides pork loin

Many years ago, the freight of Dongting Lake in Hunan was mainly transported by small wooden boats. As a result, the fiber-stained men on the boat bowed down and stretched over the years, which resulted in exhaustion and illness. Nine out of ten of them suffered from lumbar and knee pain. There is a young trailman named Du Zhong, who is kind-hearted, and he just wants to find a medicine that can relieve the troubles of the trailmen. In order to realize this wish, he bid farewell to his parents and left home to collect medicine.

One day, when he met an old man who took medicine on the hillside, he stepped forward to see him with joy, but the old man left without returning. Du Zhong was so anxious that he had been away from home for thirty-seven to twenty-one days, and the rations prepared by his mother had been consumed, but now the hope is slim, so he hurried forward to call on the old man and told the trailmen Misery. The old man moved to tears, and hurriedly took a bark from the medicine basket that could cure waist and knee pains and handed it to Du Zhong, pointing to the high mountain opposite. He told Du Zhong: "The hill is steep, you should be careful when you take medicine!" Du Zhonglianlian Thanks, goodbye to the old man, and climbed along the dangerous mountain road. Along the way, he encountered another old widower who heard that Du Zhong was going to the top of the mountain to collect medicine, and quickly discouraged: "Baby, presumably you have an old child, and the swan on this mountain is hard to fly by, and the ape also Worrying about climbing, there is so much evil here ... "Du Zhong was determined to relieve the pain of his companion, unwavering. When he climbed to the middle of the mountain hard, he heard only the crow's sorrow, and the eagle crying at the eagle, as if He is also persuading him to return quickly. When Du Zhong was in this situation, he was really anxious, and his stomach was groaning hungry. Suddenly, an upside down tumbled in the mountains. Fortunately, he was hanging on a large branch. After a while, he woke up and found that the tree around him was exactly the tree he was looking for, so he collected it desperately. However, due to exhaustion, he fainted on the cliff, and was finally washed into the misty 800-mile cave. After hearing the news, Dongting Lake trackers immediately searched for 981 days, and finally found Eucommia's body in the woods of a mountain by Dongting Lake. The bark of the bark, with tears, ate the bark he collected, and it really hurt his waist and knees. In honor of Eucommia ulmoides, this bark was officially named Eucommia ulmoides.