High Quality Eucommia ulmoides

Eucommia ulmoides Oliv., the dried bark of Eucommia ulmoides Oliv., is a rare Chinese tonic medicine. It is sweet in taste and warm in nature. It has the effect of Tonifying the liver and kidney, strengthening the muscles and bones, regulating Chong Ren, consolidating menstruation and preventing pregnancy. It can be used to treat lumbocrural pain or soreness and weakness caused by kidney yang deficiency, fetal instability caused by liver qi deficiency, wet itching of scrotum, etc. In the "Shennong herbal classic" is listed as the top grade.

Morphological features: EUCOMMIA ULMOIDES for deciduous trees, up to 20 meters high, dbh about 50 cm. Bark Grayish Brown, rough, containing rubber, broken and pulled open with numerous filaments. Shoots with tawny hairs, soon bald, old branches with obvious lenticels. Buds ovoid, shiny outside, Reddish Brown, with Scales 6-8, margin hirsute. Leaves Elliptic, ovate or rectangular-orbicular, thinly leathery, 6-15 cm long, 3.5-6.5 cm wide. Base rounded or broadly cuneate, apex acuminate; Upper Dark Green, initially Brown pilose, soon bald, older leaves slightly rugose, Underside Pale Green, initially brown hairy, later hairy only on veins. Lateral Veins 6-9 pairs, sunken above with reticulate veins, slightly raised below, margin serrate, petiole 1-2 cm long, sulcate above, sparsely hairy. Flowers at base of current year branch, male flowers without perianth; pedicel Ca. 3 mm, glabrous; bracts obovate-spatulate, 6-8 mm long, apex rounded, margin Ciliate, caducous; stamens Ca. 1 cm, glabrous, filaments Ca. 1 mm long, connective prominent, anthers slender, non-pistillode. Female flowers solitary, bracts obovate, pedicel 8 mm long, ovary glabrous, 1-celled, flat and long, apex 2-lobed, ovary stipe very short. Samara flat, oblong, 3-3.5 cm long, 1-1.3 cm wide, APEX 2-lobed, base Cuneate, surrounded by thin wings. Nut Central, slightly raised, ovary stalk 2-3 mm long, jointed with fruiting pedicel. Seeds flattened, linear, 1.4-. 5 cm long, 3 mm wide, rounded at both ends. Flowering in early spring and ripening in autumn.

Growth Habit: Likes warm and humid climate and sunny environment, can endure severe cold, the adult plant can survive normally at-30 °C, most areas of China can be cultivated, adaptability is very strong, there is no strict selection of soil, but the LOAM soil with deep soil, loose and fertile, moist and well-drained is the best. The growth rate of EUCOMMIA ULMOIDES was slow in the juvenile stage, appeared in 7-20 years, after 20 years, the growth rate decreased year by year, after 50 years, the tree height growth basically stopped, the plant natural withering. More than 300-500 meters above sea level in the low mountains, valleys or low slopes of sparse forests, the choice of soil is not strict, in the barren red soil, or rock cliff can grow.

Eucommia ulmoides is a unique species in China. The bark of the plant is the main medicinal material. For this kind of bark, if we look at it, we can find that there is sticky silk in the middle of it. In the past, doctors have seen that this kind of sticky silk is just like human tendon, so they consider that it has the function of strengthening muscles and bones. At present, Eucommia ulmoides is mainly to strengthen the muscles and bones, and tonify the kidney. General clinical common, such as low back pain, kidney deficiency and fatigue can be used this drug, and the role of tocolysis.