Alias: Cenpi, Bapi, Fanpi and Qinbaipi.

Wax bark

Main effects: clearing away heat and dampness, astringing and stopping dysentery, and stopping leucorrhea.

Brighten the eyes

Cortex Fraxini is a kind of heat-clearing and detoxicating agent, and it is the dried branch bark or bark of Fraxinus angustifolia, Fraxinus microphylla, Fraxinus northeast or Fraxinus multileaf of Oleaceae.

Cortex Fraxini tastes bitter, astringent and cold, and enters the liver, gallbladder and large intestine meridians.

Cortex Fraxini is mainly produced in Liaoning, Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Henan, Jilin, Hebei and other places.

Where are the main medicinal parts of Cortex Fraxini?

Cortex Fraxini is dry branch bark or dry bark of Fraxinus China. Ash tree Or American red wax. Oleaceae.

Characteristics of medicinal parts of cortex fraxini;

1. Branch bark

It is rolled or grooved, with a length of 10~60cm and a thickness of1.5 ~ 3 mm. The outer surface is grayish white, grayish brown to dark brown or mottled, flat or slightly rough, with grayish white polka-dot lenticels and fine oblique wrinkles, and some have branch marks. The inner surface is yellowish white or brown and smooth. Hard and brittle, with fibrous section, yellow and white. Slight breathing and bitterness.

dry skin

A strip with a thickness of 3~6mm. The outer surface is grayish brown with fissures and reddish-brown round or horizontal lenticels. A hard, sturdy fiber part.

When using cortex fraxini, please pay attention to those with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold.