Description

Other name:rhizoma typhonii,
description:

ellipsoidal or ovoid, 2~5 cm long, 1~3 cm in diameter. Externally white to yellowish-white, slightly rough, exhibiting annulations and fibrous root scars, top marked with stem scars and bud scars. Texture hard, fracture white, starchy. Odourless; taste, weak, with numb and pungent sensation.

Action:

to dispel wind-phlegm, to check convulsion, and to counteract toxicity, promote subsidence of nodulation and relieve pain.

Indications:

stroke with gurgling in the throat, deviation of the eye and the mouth, and impairment of speech; upward invasion of phlegm causing headache accompanied with dizziness, heaviness of the body, restlessness, fidgetness, nausea and cold extremities, or migraine; sore throat; tetanus; external use for scrofula, venomous snake-bite.

Referential advice:

1. Removing phlegm and relieving pain

in treating dizziness due to wind-phlegm and headache due to phlegm syndrome, the drug can be decocted together with rhizoma arisaematis and rhizoma pinelliae.

2. Dispelling wind to relieve spasm

in treating wind-stroke manifested by deviation of mouth and eye, the drug is often used in combination with scorpio and bombyx batryticatus. In treating convulsion and vomiting due to excessive phlegm, the drug can be used in combination with rhizoma arisaematis, scorpio, bombyx batryticatus, etc. In treating tetanus manifested by lock jaw and spasm, the drug can be used in combination with rhizoma arisaematis, radix ledebouriellae, rhizoma gastrodiae, etc.

3. Removing toxin and disintegrating mass

in treating snake bite, the drug alone can be applied to the bite, or the drug can be used with other drugs for removing snake poisons, to be taken orally or applied externally. In treating scrofula and subcutaneous nodules, the fresh drug can be pounded and applied to the local area.

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.