Description

Description:

long conical or long cylindrical, gradually tapering towards the lower part, some slightly tortuous, 15~30cm long, 0.5~2Cm in diameter. Externally grayish-brown, rugged, with longitudinal wrinkles, numerous transverse-elongated lenticels and dotted raised rootlet scars. Root stock with obvious dense annulations, some annulations marked by brown hair-like remains of leaf bases. Texture light, easily broken, fracture uneven, bark brownish and cracked, wood yellowish. Odour, characteristic; taste, sweetish.

action:

to induce diaphoresis, to dispel wind, to alleviate rheumatic condition, and to relieve spasm.

indications:

headache in colds; urticaria; rheumatic arthralgia; tetanus.

referential advice:

1. Dispelling pathogenic wind and dispersing exopathogens from superficies of the body;

it is used in treating the exterior syndromes especially for those patients with severe headache and pantalgia.The is slightly warm in nature but without dryness, and moderate sweet in taste with mild effects; it is considered as one of the medicines for dispersing the wind but with moisturizing effect; it can be indicated in exterior syndrome either with wind-cold or with wind-heat. For the treatment of syndrome of wind-cold, it is often combined with henthae, folium mori; for the treatment of urticaria, skin itching, with herba schizonepetae, fdructus arctii, fructus tribuli, etc.

2. Rresolving dampness and arresting soreness;

it can be used in treating syndrome of arthralgia due to invasion of pathogenic wind, cold and dampness in combination with rhizoma seu radix notopterugii, racix angelocae pubescentis, rhizoma ligustici chuanxiong, etc; and by this combination its functions of resolving dampness and dispersing wind will be reenforced.

3. Dispelling wind and arresting convulsion.

it can be used to treat tetanus, marked by opisthotonus, locked jaw, spasm of general convulsion, etc in combination with rhizoma arisaematis, rhizoma gastrodiae, rhizoma ty phomii, etc..

tips:

especially effective in ” wind-moist” ailments.

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.