Description

Actions and indications:

1. Removing dampness and arresting vomiting

to treat the syndrome due to invasion of the middle jiao by accumulation of cold-dampness with vomiting, it can be used with rhizoma pinelliae and pericarpium citri reticulatae; to treat dampness-heat syndrome with lassitude and stuffiness of the chest, with rhizoma pinelliae, cortex magnoliae officinalis, semen armeniacae amarum, etc.; To treat those with qi-deficiency, with radix codonopsis and rhizoma atractylodis macrocephalae; to treat those with heat in predominance, with rhizoma coptidis; to treat those pregnant women with morning sickness and vomiting sour fluid (due to influence of fetal energy), it can be used with fructus amomi and rhizoma cyperi.

2. Dispersing evils from the superficies and clearing away summer-heat

to treat headache, chilliness and fever, stuffiness of the chest and abdominal distension with nausea, vomiting or diarrhea, etc. (Due to over eating of cold food or raw vegetables, or invasion by caulis perillae, rhizoma pinelliae, cortex magnoliae officinalis, pericarpium arecae, poria, etc.; To treat syndrome due to summer-heat, it can be used with herba eupatorii, herba menthae and infused in hot water to make a drink, thus manifestations of summer-heat syndrome such as fullness and heaviness in the head with stuffiness of the chest accompanied with nausea, feeling of stickiness in the mouth, poor appetite, etc will be likely to be cured. Usually the fresh drugs reveal the remarkable effects.

3. Activating the flow of stagnation of qi to stop pain

to treat syndrome of stagnation of qi of the spleen and stomach with distension and pain of the epigastrium and abdomen, it can used with cortex magnoliae officinalis, fructus amomi, pericarpium citri reticulatae, radix aucklandiae, fructus aurantii immaturus, etc.

besides, it can be used in treating rhinorrhea in making decoction mixed with bile of pig.

administration and dosage:

6-12g of the drug are decocted as a dose; and 15-30g of the fresh are used. The leaves of the drug can produce the effect of dispersing evils from superfices; the twigs can produce the effect of regulating middle jiao; and the fresh plant has the remarkable effects on clearing away summer-heat, resolving dampness evil, and preventing human body from the affection due to invasion by pathogenic or virulent factors. In making decoction, it is not suitable to be decocted for a long time.

remarks:

a highly effective preventive for heat stroke and summer colds.

this statement has not been evaluated by the food and drug administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Unless used under instructions by a licensed herbalist.