Description

Description:

rhizoma phragmitis(fresh) long-cylindrical, some slightly compressed, varying in length, 1~2 cm diameter. Externally yellowish-white, lustrous, the peel loose and exfoliated. Nodes annular, bearing remains of roots and bud scars. Texture light and tough, flexible, fracture yellowish-white, hollowed, walls 1~2 mm thick, showing small pores arranged in a ring. Odourless; taste, sweetish. Rhizoma phragmitis(dried) compressed-cylindrical. Nodes relatively hard, internodes longitudinally wrinkled.

function: to remove heat, to promote the production of body fluid, to relieve emesis, and to alleviate dysuria. Dire thirst in febrile diseases; vomiting or retching due to heat in the stomach; heat in the lung with cough; lung abscess; urinary infection with difficult painful urination. 1. Clearing away heat and promoting production of the body fluid
2. Clearing away lung-heat 3.Reducing stomach-heat to arrest vomiting. Besides, it is indicated in measles at its beginning stage with retardation of eruption. It has the effects of dispersing evils and letting out eruption; so it can be used as a single medicine or combined with others having the effects on dispersing evils and letting eruption out.

caution: the herb is and antidote in food poisoning, especially from seafood.

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.