What is Cornus fruit or Dogwood fruit and how to use it?

Contents

• Botanical Data of Cornus Fruit.
• What is Cornus fruit or Dogwood fruit?.
• Phytochemicals and Constituents.
• Combinations,Indications and Pharmacology of Dogwood Fruit.
• Effects and Applications.
• Suggestions and Administrations.
• Modern Research and Identification.
• Research Update:Dogwood Fruit,Cornus officinalis,Cornus fruit.

What is Cornus fruit or Dogwood fruit?:

This herb is the pulp of the ripe fruit of Cornus officinalis Sieb. etZucc. (family Cor-naceae), which isproduced mainly in Zhejiang, Anhui, Henan and Shanxi provinces. After collection in the late autumn, the fruit is baked over slow fire or scaldedslightly in boilingwater, and then driedin the sun or baked dry for use after removal of the fruitstone.

 Sources Location: Cornus fruit grow in the provinces of Zhejiang, Anhwei, Henan, Shaanxi provinces of China. It collect in the fall time when the fruits are matured. Use the meat of the fruit, dried by heat or sunshine.
 

 Appearance of Dogwood Tree: Some species, such as flowering and Pacific dogwood, have showy flowers. The two groundcover species have flowers that are rather inconspicuous but appear magnificent framed by the surrounding large, petal-like bracts. Other dogwoods have clusters of small, creamy-white flowers. Dogwood berries can be bright red, white, dark blue, or even a combination of dark blue and white, as with the silky dogwood. Most species have attractive fall foliage in shades of burgundy, orange, and red.

 Properties: Sour; slightly warm,Sour, astringent in flavour, warm in nature, it is tropistic to the liver and kidney channels. Being warm and moist in nature, it functions in tonifying both liver-and kidney-yin and warming kidney-yang; and as an astringent, it is also good at consolidating and astringing the lower-jiao and serves as an important herb for reinforcing the kidney to preserve essence. Thus it can be used together with other herbs to treat syndromes of debility of the lower-jiao due to insufficiency of the liver and the kidney.
 Sour in flavour, slightly warm in property, acting on the liver and kidneychannels.

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♣ last edit date:20th,Oct.2010.