Glossy Privet Fruit

Primarily produced in the Chinese provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Hunan, Fujian, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Sichuan.

Oval, elliptical or kidney-shaped, 6~8.5mm long, 3.5~5.5mm diameter. Externally black-purple or grayish-black, wrinkled, base has stem scars or a persistent calyx and short stem. Light in weight. Exocarp is thin, mesocarp is relatively soft, easily peeled off, endocarp is woody, yellowish-brown, with longitudinal ridges, and one seed can be seen after being broken; kidney-shaped, purple-black, and oily. faintly odor, sweet, slightly bitter and astringent taste.

Superior medicinal material is large, full, black-purple.

Sweet, bitter, cool

Enriches liver and kidney, brighten eyes, blackens hair. Apply to vertigo and tinnitus, relative weakness in the loins and knees, early greying of beard and hair, darkened vision, inner heat and diabetes, bone steaming and hot flash.