Description

Description:
quilled, 5-15 cm long, 1-2 cm in diameter, 2-5mm thick. Outer surface greyish-white or pale greyish-yellow, with fine longitudinal wrinkles and rootlet scars, frequently with small protruding granular dots; inner surface almost white, with fine longitudinal wrinkles. Texture fragile, dusting on breaking, fracture uneven and somewhat lamellar, when outer layer peeled off, numerous glittering small spots observed on exposuring to light. Odour, muttony; taste, slightly bitter.

information::
to remove damp-heat detoxicating and dispel wind.

indications:
skin inflammation with yellowish watery discharge, eczema, rubella, tinea, scabies; acute rheumatic arthritis; jaundice with dark urine.

referential advice:
clearing away evil heat and resolving dampness, dispelling wind and relieving itching.

for the treatment of suppurative inflammation of skin due to damp-heat, urticaria or scabies or ringworm, pruritus, etc., It is often combined with radix sophorae flavescentis, periostracum cicadae, fructus kochiae, radix ledebouriellae, etc.; For pruritus vulvae with leukorrhagia, with radix sophorae flavescentis, fructus cnidii and pericarpium zanthoxyli for wash.

besides, it can also be used to treat jaundice or arthragia due to damp-heat, etc..

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.