Evodia Fruit – 1 lb (454 g)

Evodia Fruit, known in Chinese as 吴茱萸 (Wúzhūyú) and scientifically as Fructus Evodiae, is a valued herb in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). This TCM herb has been traditionally used to support natural wellness, maintain vitality, and encourage holistic balance. At TCMforyou.com, we provide premium-quality Evodia Fruit carefully sourced to preserve its therapeutic properties.

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[Overview] This herb is also known as Shizhuyu, Wuyu, Qilazi, and Quyaozi. It is the nearly mature fruit of plants in the Rutaceae family: Euodia rutaecarpa (Juss.) Benth., Euodia rutaecarpa (Juss.) Benth. var. officinalis (Dode) Huang, or Euodia rutaecarpa (Juss.) Benth. var. bodinieri (Dode) Huang. The main production areas are Guizhou, Guangxi, Hunan, Sichuan, Yunnan, Shaanxi, and Zhejiang provinces; it is also produced in Jiangxi, Hubei, Anhui, and Fujian. The fruit is harvested from August to November before it splits open. Fruit branches are cut, sun-dried or dried at low temperature, and impurities such as branches, leaves, and fruit stalks are removed.

[Properties] The taste is pungent and bitter; the nature is hot with slight toxicity. It enters the Liver, Stomach, Spleen, and Kidney meridians.

[Actions] Disperses cold and relieves pain; descends rebellious qi and stops vomiting; assists yang and stops diarrhea.

[Applications]
1. Used for pain caused by cold congealing and damp stagnation. This herb is especially effective for liver cold qi stagnation pain. For liver and stomach deficiency cold, liver qi with cold fluids rebelling upward causing Jueyin headache, dry retching, and spitting of saliva, it can be combined with ginseng and fresh ginger, as in Wuzhuyu Tang (Wu Zhu Yu Decoction). For spleen and stomach deficiency cold with epigastric and abdominal cold pain, it is often combined with dried ginger and costus root. For cold hernia abdominal pain, it is often combined with Lindera, Toosendan fruit, and fennel, as in Dao Tan Tang (Guide Phlegm Decoction). For women with deficiency cold of the Ren and Chong channels, qi stagnation and blood stasis, lower abdominal cold pain or dysmenorrhea, it is often combined with mugwort leaf, angelica, cyperus, and chuanxiong.
2. Used for vomiting and acid regurgitation regardless of whether caused by deficiency cold or excess heat. For liver and stomach deficiency cold with turbid yin rebelling upward causing vomiting of saliva and acid regurgitation, it can be combined with fried ginger powder. For liver qi transforming into fire and disharmony of liver and stomach causing hypochondriac distension and pain, vomiting, acid regurgitation, and bitter taste in the mouth, it can be combined with Coptis, as in Zuo Jin Wan (Left Metal Pill).
3. Used for diarrhea and dysentery. For chronic diarrhea that does not stop with spleen and kidney deficiency cold, it can be combined with psoralea, nutmeg, and schisandra, as in Si Shen Wan (Four Miracle Pill). For mixed cold and heat with dysentery and abdominal pain, it is often combined with Coptis and white peony, as in Wu Ji Wan.
Additionally, this herb treats cold-damp beriberi and can be combined with perilla leaf, papaya, and betel nut; it treats mouth and tongue ulcers and hypertension by guiding fire back to the source, often using the powdered herb mixed with vinegar applied to the soles of the feet; powdered and mixed with ointment, it can be used for eczema and neurodermatitis.

[Dosage and Administration] Internal use: decoction, 1.5–4.5 g; or incorporated into pills or powders. External use: appropriate amount, steamed and applied as a hot compress; powdered and applied as a dressing; or decoction used for washing.

[Cautions] Not suitable for long-term or excessive use. Contraindicated in cases of yin deficiency with fire excess; use with caution during pregnancy. For stopping vomiting, often stir-fried with Coptis; for treating hernia, stir-fried with salt water.

[Modern Research]
1. Chemical constituents include volatile oils, mainly evodiene, basilene, evodiamine, and rutaecarpine alcohol; also contains alkaloids such as evodiamine, dihydroevodiamine, isoevodiamine, hydroxy-evodiamine, evodiamine caprine alkaloid, dihydro-evodiamine caprine alkaloid, and cyclic AMP. Other constituents include limonin, evodiamine bitter principle, evodiamine bitter ester, and berberine ketone. It also contains isoprenoid flavonoids, evodiamine ketone, evodiamine essence, steroid compounds, and lipids.
2. Pharmacological effects: Fructus Evodiae has analgesic effects, with active components including evodiamine, dihydroevodiamine, and isoevodiamine; it has antiemetic effects which are enhanced when combined with ginger; it lowers blood pressure mainly by dilating peripheral blood vessels and reducing peripheral vascular resistance, related to histamine release; it inhibits platelet aggregation and thrombosis; its volatile oils have aromatic stomachic effects and can protect against experimentally induced ulcers; it has bidirectional effects on isolated mouse activity—exciting at low concentrations and inhibiting spontaneous contractions at high concentrations; oral decoction in rabbits has diuretic effects; it stimulates the uterus, with active components including dehydro-evodiamine, dihydroevodiamine, and rutaecarpine; the decoction shows strong inhibitory effects in vitro against Vibrio cholerae, and some inhibitory effects against Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus, and certain common pathogenic fungi.
3. Clinical reports: 1) Infantile diarrhea: 20 g of Fructus Evodiae powdered and mixed with rice vinegar to a paste, applied around the navel covering Shenque, Xiawan, bilateral Tianshu, and Qihai acupoints, covered with plastic and fixed with tape. After 24 hours, remove residue and reapply. One application cured 37 cases, two applications cured 51 cases, three applications cured 5 cases, and 3 cases improved. [Shaanxi Traditional Chinese Medicine, 1987, 8(10):461] 2) Congenital laryngomalacia (infantile epiglottic cartilage closure deficiency): appropriate amount of Fructus Evodiae powder mixed with cooled boiled water to a thick paste, applied to bilateral Yongquan acupoints, 1–2 g each time, once nightly, removed next morning; 6 treatments per course. Treated 69 cases with 100% total effective rate. [Hebei Traditional Chinese Medicine, 1990,(1):14] 3) Pediatric asthmatic bronchitis: 10 g Fructus Evodiae powdered and mixed with vinegar to a paste, applied to bilateral Yongquan acupoints, removed after 48 hours. Treated 8 cases, all cured. [New Chinese Medicine, 1980,(5):29] 4) Primary hypertension: 18 g Fructus Evodiae fruit powder per packet, mixed with white vinegar to a thick paste, applied to bilateral foot sole acupoints (slightly posterior to Yongquan). Treated 27 cases with a total effective rate of 92.6%. [Railway Medicine, 1982, 10(5):319]