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***Wu Jia Pi (Cortex Acanthopanacis)/Chinese Traditional Herb***
 
 
 
 
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Wu Jia Pi commonly known as Cortex Acanthopanacis is the root bark of Eleutherococcus nodiflorus, which is a deciduous undershrub belonging to the family Araliaceae. It is a relatively practical and common Chinese herbal medicine, which first appeared in <Shennong Ben Cao Jing> in the late Western Han Dynasty (about 100 BC).
There are about 29 kinds of Eleutherococcus, which are mainly distributed in East Asia. Some of these species are of medicinal value, such as Eleutherococcus nodiflorus, E. sessiliflorus, E. giraldii, E. henryi, E. leucorrhizus, E. cissifolius, and E. senticosus.
Eleutherococcus nodiflorus is also known as Acanthopanax gracilistylus. This plant is unique to China. They are distributed in central, eastern, southern, and southwestern China. They often grow on forest edges, roadsides, or thickets. Currently, they have been cultivated artificially.
Acanthopanax gracilistylus
In summer and autumn, people gather the roots of Eleutherococcus nodiflorus, wash them with water, peel the root barks, dry them in the sun, cut them into thick slices, and make them into Chinese herbal medicines.
Wu Jia Pi contains syringin, eleutheroside B1, acanthoic acid, sesamin, protocatechuic acid, acanthoside A-D, acanthoside K2, acanthoside K3, acankoreagenin, acankoreanogenin A, stigmasterol, β-sitosterol, polysaccharides, volatile oils, fatty acids, proteins, and vitamins.
Generally, light yellowish-brown and thick Wu Jia Pi with a slightly fragrant is preferred.
According to <Compendium of Materia Medica>, the medicinal property of Wu Jia Pi is relatively warm, with a pungent and bitter taste. It has a certain therapeutic effect on the pathological changes of the liver and kidney meridians.
In traditional Chinese medicine, it is often used to expel wind and dampness, reinforce liver benefit kidney, strengthen tendons and bones, promote urination to alleviate edema, and treat rheumatic arthralgia, waist and knee pain, muscular spasms, flaccid tendons and bones, dysplasia in children, retardation in infants, fatigue, edema, bad breath, beriberi, palpitations, insomnia, neurasthenia, productive spondylitis, proliferative cervical syndrome, lumbar muscle degeneration, facial distortion, and hemiplegia.
There are about 50 kinds of traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions containing it, such as Zhi Zhi Pian, Kuo Kung Chiew, and Zhuang Jin Xu Gu Wan.
 
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