What is Cornus fruit or Dogwood fruit and how to use it?

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Combinations,Indications and Pharmacology of Dogwood Fruit.

Dogwood Fruit Extract INCI Name Cornus officinalis Fruit Extract Asiatic dogwood fruit extract Corni Fructus extract Cornus officinalis Sieb. et Zucc Fructus Corni Arillas Corni photo picture image Impotence, seminal emission, incontinence of urination, spontaneous sweating, menorrhagia, uterine bleeding, and aching back and knees.

 Cornus berries have a long history of use in a variety of medicinal tonics, including those used to treat excessive urination, incontinence, excessive sweating excessive menstrual bleeding, decreased erectile function and premature ejaculation. Cornus is also an ingredient in formulas that treat ringing of the ears (tinnitus), poor hearing, blurred vision, dizziness, shock and trauma, and a wide range of other conditions.
 Dogwood Fruit Extract INCI Name Cornus officinalis Fruit Extract Asiatic dogwood fruit extract Corni Fructus extract Cornus officinalis Sieb. et Zucc Fructus Corni Arillas Corni photo picture image

 Common Use suggestions and combinations:

 Dizziness, impotence, seminal emission, frequent urination: used with rehmannia root and Chinese yam

 Severe debility with impending collapse: used with ginseng, lateral root of aconite, dragon's bone and oyster shell

 Metrorrhagia, metrostaxis and menorrhagia: used with cuttle-bone, carbonized rubia root, carbonized petiole of windmill palm.

 Bed wetting: shan zhu yu 15 g, fu pen zi 15 g,yi zhi ren,tu si zi 11 g,xian mao 11g.Boil with water and drink as tea.

 Sweating non stop: shan zhu yu 15 g, wu wei zi 9 g,raw long gu 30 g,raw mu li 30 g. Boil with water and make into 3 servings.

 Priaprism due to yinxu condition: shu di huang 30 g, shan yu rou 15 g,gui ban 15 g,bie jia 15 g,huang bai 15 g,zhi mu 12 g.Boil with water and make into 2 servings.

 Excessive bleeding during menopause due to liver and kidney yin deficient: shu di huang 24 g,shan yao 15 g,shan zhu yu 15g,dang gui 12 g ,bai shao 12 g,dan pi 12 g,fu ling 9 g,ze xie 9 g,ai ye 9 g,xi cao 9 g,di yu 9 g,han lian cao 9 g.Boil with water. Make into 3 serving.

 Premature ejaculation, impotence, spermatorrhea due to yinxu condition: shu di huang 30 g,shan zhu yu 30 g,jin ying zi 15 g,zhi mu 12 g,huang bai 12 g.Boil with water. Make into 2 servings for morning and night.

 Night sweating due to yinxu condition: shan zhu yu 30 g,mai dong 18 g,sheng di huang 24 g,wu wei zi 9 g.Boil with water. Use as tea.
 Dogwood Fruit Extract INCI Name Cornus officinalis Fruit Extract Asiatic dogwood fruit extract Corni Fructus extract Cornus officinalis Sieb. et Zucc Fructus Corni Arillas Corni photo picture image

 Indications:

 1.For insufficiency of kidney-yang induced debility of the lower-jiao manifested as spermatorrhea and frequent urination: it is often used with herbs for invigorating the kidney o preserve essence such as Fructus Psoraleae, Sement Astrgali Complanati, Semen Euryales, Radix Rehmanniae Preaparata. Rhizoma Dioscoreae, etc. For lassitude of the loins and knees, dizziness, tinnitus, night sweat, and spermatorrhear due to deficiency of both liver-and kidney-yin, it is often used with Radis Rehmanniae Preaparata, Rhizoma Dioscoreae, Cortex Moutan Radicis, as in Rehmannia Bolus of Six Ingredients (Liuwei Dihuang Wan).

 2.For deficiency of Chong and Ren Meridians with menorrhagia, netrorrhagia and metrostaxis:  it is often prescrided with drugs for curing metrorrhagia and leukorrhagia such as Radix Astragali seu Hedysari, Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae, Os Sepiella seu sepiae, etc.

 3.For night sweat due to Yin-deficiency and spontaneous sweating because of Qi-deficiency: it is often prescribed with drugs for consolidating the superficies to stop sweaing, such as Os Draconis Fossilia Ossis Mastodi, Concha Ostreae, Fructus Tritici Levis, Fructus Schisandrae, etc.

 4.For syndromesof deficiency of both the liver and kidney marked by dizziness, lassitudeof the loins and knees, impotence,seminal emission,froguent urination, enuresis, etc:  Incase the above symptoms are due to deficiency ofboth the liver- yin and kidney-yin, dogwood fruit is often prescribed with prepared rehmannia root and chinese yam,as in Rehmannia Bolus of Six Ingredients ( Liuwei Dihuang Wan) ; in cases they are due to deficiency of the kidney-yang, itcan be used with psoraleafruit and chinese angelica root,as in Pill for Treating Deficiency of Both the Liver and Kidney (Caohuan Dan); for incontinence of urination, it canbe used with mantis egg-case,raspberry,bitter cardamon and flatstem milkvetch seed.

 5.For incessanthidrorrhea and severedebility with impending collapse: it is often used along withginseng, lateral root of aconite, dragon's bone and oyster shell.

 6.To treatmetro-rrhagia, metrostaxisand menorrhagia:  it can be used with cuttle-bone, carboni-zed rubia root, carbonized petiole of windmill palm,etc.,as in Decoction forReinforcing Chong Channel (Guchong Tang).
 Dogwood Fruit Extract INCI Name Cornus officinalis Fruit Extract Asiatic dogwood fruit extract Corni Fructus extract Cornus officinalis Sieb. et Zucc Fructus Corni Arillas Corni photo picture image

 Pharmacology:Dogwood Fruit

 1.Cardiovascular Effects: Dogwood Fruit release strong cardiovascular effects,dogwood fruit injection 2-8mg/kg dosage intravenous injection improve heart functions,boost contractility of heart and cardiac output.

 2.Effects on Immune Systems: Different effects on inmmune systems identified for different grade of dogwood fruit compositions,water decoction lowering lick up functions of reticuloendothelial system,inhibition on Delayed-type Hypersensitivity caused by SRBC or DNCB,inhibiting activation of T cell lymphoma.Dogwood fruit isoflavones and ursolic acid shows strong inhibition effects on lymphopoiesis,transform,inhibition LAK birth and Interleukin-2,strong antagonize to reprobation effects of apparatus replant,Intraperitoneal Injection 500mg/kg dogwood fruit total saponins daily 6 days,existing period extended for mice replanted heart,water decoction shows prompt effects on immunity of body fluid of immunit,boost formation of Serum Antibody IgG and IgM.

 3.Anti-inflammation and Anti-Bacteria: Water decoction of dogwood fruit shows strong inhibition on inflammatory exudate,edema and granulation tissue hyperplasia caused by xylene,egg white and vinegar,etc;no big effects on PGE ratio of turgescence tissue,lowering Vitamin C ratio of adrenal gland of mouse,relief adrenal gland cell damage.These prove and mentions that the anti-inflammatory mechanism of dogwood fruit has relationships with pituitary-adrenalgland boosting function,no distinct inhibition effects on PGE synthesize and release of PGE.Stronger inhibition effects of dogwood fruit on Staphylococcus epidermids,Enterococcus,Staphylococcus aureus and dysentery bacillus.

 4.Anti-Stimulation,anti-Free Radicals,Lowering Blood cholesterol.: dogwood fruit released strong ability to boost body's Anti-Stimulation effects,increase anti-hypoxia and anti-aging ability of mice,boost memory.Increase SOD activity of blood cells,counteract lipid peroxide.Ethanol extracts shows effects to lowering blood cholesterols,lowering triglyceride,cholesterin,prevent arteriosclerosis.

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last edit date:20th,June.2009.