What are the Benefits and Effects of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Guijianyu?

The efficacy and role of Chinese medicine Guijianyu are to break blood and unblock meridians, detoxify and reduce swelling, and kill insects. Guijianyu has strong adaptability, cold resistance, shade tolerance, pruning tolerance, drought resistance, and barren soil tolerance. It has strong resistance to sulfur dioxide. Its growth is relatively slow. Both tender leaves and frost leaves are purple-red, and the autumn leaves are bright and lovely in sunny places. The persistent capsules are also quite beautiful; they are often planted in gardens for ornamental purposes. Guijianyu is mainly used to treat heart muscle damage in heart diseases such as coronary heart disease, hypertensive heart disease, and myocarditis. It also treats hypertension, arteriosclerosis, diabetes, cervical spondylosis, and cerebral arterial insufficiency. Guijianyu has unique branches and wings, with bright red autumn leaves and red fruit cracks, making it very beautiful and worthy of being called an ornamental tree. The new leaves of Guijianyu are also red. In summer, appropriately remove the old leaves and apply fertilizer and water to promote the regrowth of new leaves and increase the ornamental period. To make the autumn leaves turn red earlier, they should be placed in a semi-shaded place in summer to prevent the leaves from thickening and facilitate the formation of beautiful red leaves. After defoliation, the branches and wings resemble arrow feathers, and the persistent capsules also turn red after cracking, making them quite valuable for appreciation in winter. Guijianyu branches are elongated and round, about 40-50cm long and 0.4-1cm in diameter. The surface is rough, dark grayish-green to grayish-green, with longitudinal wrinkles and grayish-white longitudinally growing lenticels. There are four corky wings, which are flat and slightly thicker near the stem and gradually thinner outward, with a width of 4-10mm. The surface is grayish-brown to dark reddish-brown, with fine and dense longitudinal stripes or wavy and curved textures, and some have transverse concave stripes. The branches are hard and tough, with a light yellow-white cross-section, fibrous, slightly odorous, and slightly bitter in taste. The wings are light and brittle, with a flat cross-section, brownish yellow, fine granular, slightly odorous, and slightly astringent in taste.