What Is Ho Shou Wu?
Polygonum multiflora (Scientific name: Fallopia multiflora (Thunb.) Harald.), Also known as multi-flowered cypress, purple wicker rattan, night vine and so on. It is a perennial twining vine of the Polygonum multiflorum of the family Polygonaceae, with thick roots, oblong, dark brown. Growing valley thickets, hillside forests, ditch-side stone gaps. Produced in southern Shaanxi, southern Gansu, eastern China, central China, southern China, Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou. Its roots are used in medicine to soothe the nerves, nourish the blood, activate the vitality, detoxify (cut off malaria), and eliminate dysentery; making Shouwu can nourish essence and blood, black hair, strong bones, and liver and kidney, are common precious Chinese medicinal materials.
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- Polygonum multiflorum is a perennial plant. Roots are thick, oblong, dark brown. Stems twining, 2-4 m long, much branched, with
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- Roots contain anthraquinones, mainly
- 1. It is circulated in the folk that He Shouwu can be aged for a long time, and there is still a legend in it. According to legend, long ago, Shunzhou
- On January 25, 2015, an old Chinese medicine practitioner who lived in a community in Huayuan Avenue, Xiaochang New District
- On February 25, 2015, at the plant of Shi Xiangui, Shanxia Village, Yuandong Township, Jindong District, Zhejiang Province, a 23-kg-long, 3.3-meter-long root that looks like Polygonum multiflorum was attracted by many villagers. The root resembles a dragon in mythology. Shi Xiangui tied up evergreen and cypress branches with red cloth strips to decorate it to add joy to the New Year. It is reported that the root was discovered by Shi Xiangui two days ago on a cliff on a mountain side of the village. In order to keep the root whisker intact, he and his son dug it out by hand for two days. [9]
- On April 28, 2015, Zhong Fusheng, a villager in Luquan Village, Luxi County, Pingxiang City, claimed that he had dug up a 36 cm long and 3.75 kg Polygonum multiflorum when he was picking Chinese herbal medicine. According to forestry sources, it takes at least 500 years for wild Polygonum multiflorum to grow so large.
- This Polygonum multiflorum, in appearance, looks like a human body model. The head, body, reproductive organs and limbs are very clear and lifelike. It is understood that this Polygonum multiflorum is 36 cm long and 16 cm wide.
- Mr. Zhong said that he usually went to the mountains to collect various Chinese herbal medicines when he was fine. On the morning of the 28th, he found a growing plant in the mountains of the village. Mr. Zhong said that when he dug, he saw that what looked like a "human body" was also connected to the outer vines and leaves. Because of his research experience in herbal medicine, 64-year-old Zhong Fusheng knew that this was a precious plant. "In order not to destroy the original 'body shape', I dug very carefully and brought it back to the county home intact." He weighed it with a scale and weighed 3.75 kilograms.
- On the morning of the 29th, the reporter accompanied Mr. Zhong to Pingxiang Forestry Bureau. According to Deng Shubo, the director of the extension station of the Forestry Research Institute of the city s forestry bureau, the plant is brown in color, with irregular lines, and viewed from the length of its leaves and vines. The entire appearance does reach the plant appearance of Polygonum multiflorum.
- Deng Shubo said that the Polygonum multiflorum found by Mr. Zhong, like this shape, will not grow for decades in the wild, and it should take more than 500 years to grow above 3 kg.
- Knowing this, some people expressed their willingness to buy it for 7,000 yuan, but Mr. Zhong refused. Mr. Zhong said that he would treasure it and let more people see its magical appearance. [10]