Akebia quinata (Houtt.)

Aliases: Shantongcao (Shennong's Materia Medica), Tongcao, Fuzhi (this sutra), Dingweng (Wu Pu Materia Medica), etc.; deciduous woody vine, slender, cylindrical, twining, gray-brown bark, round, small The raised lenticels; the buds are arranged in shingled scales, light reddish brown. Palmate compound leaves alternate or clustered on short branches, usually with 5 leaflets, occasionally 3-4 or 6-7; petioles are slender, 4.5-10 cm long; leaflets are papery, obovate or obovate ellipse Shape, 2-5 cm long and 1.5-2.5 cm wide. Mutong is a negative plant, fond of dampness, and more cold-tolerant. It often grows in grasses under forests on low-altitude hillsides. Produced in China's Yangtze River valley provinces and regions, and distributed in Japan and North Korea. Mutong is sweet in taste and slightly cold in nature. It has the effects of treating redness of the urine, astringent and painful gonorrhea, edema, oliguria, and insufficiency of milk.
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