Description

Description:

clavate, somewhat flattened, 1.5~8 Cm long, 0.8~1.5 Cm in diameter. Pale brown to brownish-red. The whole spike composed of up to ten or more whorls of persistent calyx and bracts, each whorl with two opposite bracts, fan-shaped, apex acuminate, striations of vein distinct, the outer surface with white hairs. Each bract with three flowers, the corolla often fallen off, persistent calyx bilabiate, with four small brown ovoid nutlets, with white convex at the acute end. Texture light. Odour, slight; taste, weak.

action:

to quench fire of the liver and counteract inflammation of the eye, and to reduce nodulation and induce subsidence of swelling.

indications:

inflammation of the eye, ophthalmalgia at night, headache and dizziness; scrofula, goiter, mastitis with swelling and pain, hyperplasia of breast; hypertension.

referential advice:

1. Reducing liver-fire to brighten vision

for treatment of bloodshot eyes due to liver-fire, it is with flos chrysanthemi, herba taraxaci, etc.; For painful sensation of the eye-ball more severe at night, with rhizoma cyperi 30g, radix glycyrrhizae 6g, and 6g of their powder may be taken as a dose, twice a day; for painful sensation of the eye-balls due to deficiency of liver-yin, with radix angelicae sinensis, radix paeoniae alba, etc.; For syndrome of hyperactivity of liver-yang or flare-up of liver-fire, restlessness and insomnia, as a medicine frequently used, it may be used singly or combined with drugs for chrysanthemi indici, concha haliotidis, radix scutellariae, etc.

2. Clearing away evil fire and resolving mass

for the treatment of scrofula, goiter, mastitis, mumps, etc. Due to accumulation and retention of evil factor as phlegm-fire, it may be used as a single medicine for preparation of soft extract taken for a duration of time, or combined with radix scrophulariae, bulbus fritillariae thunbergii, thallus laminariae seu eckloniae, etc., Which may be selected according to the syndrome of the specific patient.

now, it is often indicated in hypertension, goiter, tuberculosis of lymph nodes, hyperplasia of the mammary gland, etc. Besides, it can also be used to treat pulmonary tuberculosis, lymphosarcoma, tumour of mediastinum, etc.

tips:

it is highly effective in all symptoms of jaundice.

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.