Description

Description:

ovoid or subspherical, about 1.5 Mm in diameter. Externally greyish-brown with dark purple and slightly protuberant reticulate striations, base slightly acute, with greyish-white and pointed fruit stalk scar. Pericarp thin and fragile, easily broken. Seeds yellowish-white, testa membranous, eotyledons 2, whitish and oily. Odour, aromatic by pressing; taste, slightly pungent.

action:

to relieve dyspnea and cough, to eliminate phlegm, and to relax bowels.

indications:

cough and dyspnea due to accumulation of phlegm; constipation due to lack of intestine fluid.

referential advice:

this drug is used to send down adverse flow of qi, resolve phlegm and relieve cough and asthma. It can be used to treat accumulation of phlegm, stuffy chest, adverse flow of qi, and cough and asthma, and is often used in combination with radix peucedani, citri reticulatae, etc. It can be used in combination with semen sinapis albae and semen raphani.

besides, since this drug can moisten the intestine and treat constipation due to dryness in the intestine, it is often administered with such drug as fructus cannabis, semen armeniacae amarum, fructus aurantii, etc. To moisten the intestine and send down the adverse flow of qi.

tips:

leaves also used as diaphoretic and antitussive.

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.