Description

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DESCRIPTION:

Rounded slices shrunken and uneven, 1-2.5 cm in diameter, 2-4 mm thick. Externally red, wrinkled, with small greyish-white spots. Pulp dark yellow to pale brown. Transverses slices of the middle part showing 5 pale yellow kerns, mostly fallen off, and loculi hollowed. Some slices exhibiting a slender fruit stalk or remains of calyx. Odour, slightly aromatic; taste, sour and slightly sweet.

ACTION:

To stimulate digestion and promote the functional activity of the stomach; to improve the normal flow of qi and dissipate blood stasis.

INDICATIONS:

Stagnation of undigested meat with epigastric distension, diarrhea and abdominal pain; amenorrhea due to blood stasis, epigastric pain or abdominal colic after childbirth; heraial pain; hyperlipemia.

Fructus Crataegi (charred) Has more digestant action and is particularly useful for stagnation of undigested meat and diarrhea with inadequate discharge from the bowels.

REFERENTIAL ADVICE:

1.Promoting digestion and removing stagnated food

In treating stagnation of food or greasy food, distention of chest and abdomen, infantile dyspepsia due to improper feeding, etc. the drug is often used in combination with Fructus Hordei Germinatus, Massa Fermentata Medicinalis, Semen Raphani, etc.

2.Activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis

In treating dysmenorrhea, postpartum abdominal pain, leukorrhea, etc. due to stasis of blood, the drug is often used in combination with Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Rhizoma Ligustici Chuanxiong, Rhizoma Corydalis, Herba Leonuri, 30g of the carbonized drug are prescribed. Take the decoction mixed with brown sugar and urine of a boy under 12 years old.

In addition, this drug also has the effect of activating blood circulation and promoting measles eruptions and can be used in combination with Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae to treat retarded eruption seen at the initial stage of measles with such manifestations as stasis of Qi and blood or indigestion. In recent years, the drug is used in combination with Semen Cassiae to treat hypertension. The drugs are infused in boiling water with sugar and the water is drunk everyday instead of tea. The drug can also be used to treat coronary heart disease, hyperlipemia and bacillary dysentery.

TIPS:

It is especially effective in promoting digestion and movement of meals and fats; it dilates the blood vessels to lower blood pressure; dissolves cholesterol deposits in lining of blood vessels.

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.