Description

DESCRIPTION:

Irregular pieces, often broken, polygonal, varying in size. Externally dark reddish-brown or dark brown, lusterless. Texture light and hard, uneasily broken, fracture rough or with pockmarked striations; hygroscopic. Odor, characteristic; taste, very bitter.

New Aloes Externally dark brown, slightly green, lustrous. Texture light and lax, easily broken; fracture glassy, with striations.

Taste: Bitter and cold

ACTION:

To remove heat from the liver and large intesting, and to relax the bowels.

INDICATIONS:

Constipation; infantile malnutrition due to improper feeding and convulsion; external use for eczema and ringworm.

REFERENTIAL ADVICE:

1. Clearing away the intense heat by inducing loosing bowels

To treat the syndtome due to invasion of the liver and gall bladder by heat evil, accompanied with constipation, it is often used with Radix Gentianae, Fructus Gaardeniae, Radix Scutellariae, etc.; to treat constipation due to invasion of the intestine by heat evil accompanied with deficiency of Yin and irascibility, 22 g of the drug and 15 g of Cinnabaris are ground into powderin making pills by mixing with wine; and 3 g of the pills are taken with boiled water.

2. Killing the intestinal parasites to relieve malnutrition it can be used with Rhizoma Picrorhizae, medicated leaven of fruit of Ulmus macrocarpa Hance (Frucus Gaedeniae), Radix Aucklandiae, etc.

Now it is used to treat leukemia in combination with Indige Naturalis, Radix Angelicae Sinensis and other for reducin gheat and nourishing blood; by this method, quite satisfactory result has been got.

TIPS:

Does not lose effect with prolonged use, so is good for chronic cases of constipation.