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Welcome everyone to share your own experiences with these medicinal herbs in the replies, to facilitate other classmates’ research and learning.
137. Siegesbeckia Herba (豨莶草)
The taste is very familiar, I should have tasted something similar before, but I can’t recall it at the moment. Humans really have their limitations. It seems like a combination of Kamakusa (地锦草) and Mulberry leaves, not unpleasant to drink.
The texture is slightly thick, with certain moisturizing and tonifying effects. It penetrates into the bones and joints, causing a slight soft and weak sensation, especially noticeable in the elbows and knees.
During the process of moistening dryness and detoxifying, it also replaces the original metabolic waste in the bones and joints outward. Good medicine, good medicine.
138. Odoriferous Parasol Tree (臭梧桐)
Never tried, just a little.
139. Pittosporum Bark (海桐皮)
Looks like Magnolia bark (厚朴), tastes slightly bitter, quite cold, cold enough to make you shiver.
But aside from the cold sensation, I didn’t feel any special effect on the joints. Perhaps it may have some effect on acute inflammatory phases of rheumatoid arthritis or similar illnesses.
140. Trachelospermum jasminoides (络石藤)
Tastes fishy-sweet, with a bit of pungency, slightly makes your throat sore. Overall, the taste is acceptable.
Limbs feel swollen, swelling extends to fingers and toes. With rich blood supply, it speeds up the clearance of metabolic waste and inflammatory factors—this is similar in principle to how cerebrospinal fluid increases during sleep, accelerating the clearance of brain metabolic waste.
This is more like a heat-clearing and detoxifying herb, but the metabolic waste and inflammatory factors it clears also objectively include immune deposits, so placing it here is appropriate.
Effects: clears metabolic waste, clears inflammatory factors, reduces edema, benefits joints, promotes self-healing of abscesses.