Description

Description:

spheroidal or slightly flattened-pentagon spheroidal, 2-5 mm in diameter. Externally dark yellowish-green to brown, rough, with numerous spotted protrudings or depressed oil dots. A pentagon-stellate cleft present at the apex and a yellow-tomentose fruit stalk at the base. Texture hard and fragile. Transverse section showing 5 locular ovary, each locule possessing 1-2 yellowish seeds. Odour, strong aromatic; taste, pungent and bitter.

action:

to dispel cold and alleviate pain, to relieve vomiting, and to check diarrhea.

indications:

headache accompanied by retching and cold limbs; abdominal colic; weakness and edema of the legs; abdominal pain during menstruation; epigastric distension and pain with vomiting and acid regurgitation; diarrhea occurring before dawn daily; hypertension. External use for ulcers in the mouth.

referential advice:

1. Dispelling cold and arresting diarrhea

in treating frequent attacks of coldness and pain of the head which lasts a long time accompanied by salivation, the drug is often used with radix codonopsis pilosulae, rhizoma zingiberis recens, etc., In treating painful hernia due to cold, 6g of the drug, 6g of fructus foeniculi, 9g of fructus meliae toosendan and 3g of radix aucklandiae can be decocted and taken; in treating abdominal; pain, vexation and mental confusion due to ascending of cold-dampness of beriberi, the drug can be used with fructus chaenomelis, semen arecae and rhizoma zingiberis recens.

2. Sending down qi to arrest vomitting

in treating cold syndrome of deficiency type of the stomach manifested by vomitting after meals abdominal pain or retching with salivation, the drug is often used with radix codonopsis pilosulae, and rhizoma zingiberis recens; in treating acid regurgitation after meals and coldness and pain of the chest and abdomen, the drug can be ground into powder with an equal amount of baked ginger; in treating hypochondriac pain, acid regurgitation, vomitting, etc. Due to attack of liver-fire on the stomach, the drug is often made into pills with rhizoma coptidis.

besides, the drug powder can be mixed with vinegar and applied to the sole to induce fire to go down. This method can be used treat sores of the mouth and lip.

tips:

highly effective anthelmintic against pinworms; tonic to the uterus.

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. Always used this herb under instructions of a licensed herbalist.