The history and efficacy of Evodiae

The history of Evodiae

The poem about Evodiae by wang wei, a famous poet in the tang dynasty, expresses the infinite yearning for relatives in his hometown and also reflects the folk custom of inserting Evodiae on the double ninth festival.

It has an interesting legend in Chinese folk culture.In the spring and autumn and warring states period, It grew in the state of wu, known as wu Evodiae.One year, Wu State sent it as a tribute to the state of chu.Fortunately, there was a doctor in the state of chu who had a good command of medicine.One day, the king of chu suffered from cold, stomach pain is unbearable, all drugs are ineffective.At this time, It cured the king of chu.When the king of chu knowed about this, he immediately sent someone to the state of Wu to apologize and called on the state of Chu to plant it.In order to let people remember its achievement forever, the king of chu renamed Evodiae.

The efficacy of Evodiae

Antihypertensive effect

Antihypertensive effect is mainly to dilate peripheral blood vessels and reduce the resistance of peripheral blood vessels, and is related to histamine release.

Effect on the digestive system

The results showed that contained bitter substance, which had the effect of bitter taste to strengthen the stomach, and its volatile oil had the effect of aroma to strengthen the stomach.It also has the function of anti – salt-acid gastric ulcer and anti – inflammatory pain plus ethanol gastric ulcer.

Effect on uterine smooth muscle

Its sympathomimetic component has a relaxing uterus effect on hydroxyfolin, and the residual solution of the sympathomimetic component excites the rat uterus and can counteract the relaxation effect on hydroxyformin. The ingredients that excite the uterus are dehydro evodiamine, evodiamine and muscarin. Dehydroeprostine may be a serotonin receptor agonist whose excitatory uterine action can be blocked by dimethyl ergometrine and not blocked by atropine.