Description

Description:
fusiform or ovoid, 1-1.5 Cm long, 4-7 mm in diameter. Externally yellowish-brown or yellowish-green, with hooked spines throughout. Summit with 2 relatively thick spines, separated or linked up, base with a fruit stalk scar. Texture hard and flexible, the centre of transverse section showing a septum and 2 loculi, each having an achene. Achene slightly fusiform, relatively even at one side, apex with a protruding remains of style, pericarp thin, grayish-black, with longitudinal wrinkle. Testa membranous, pale grey, cotyledons 2, oily. Odour, slight; taste, slightly bitter.

action:
to dispel wind and damp, and to relieve nasal obstruction.

indications:
headache caused by wind-cold; sinusitis with nasal discharge; urticaria with itching; arthritis with muscle contracture caused by wind-damp.

referential advice:
1. Dispersing wind and removing the obstruction of the orifices

it is indicated in headache due to affection by wind-cold or wind-syndrome of head, or indicated in nasosinusitis. For the treatment of headache due to affection by wind-cold or wind-syndrome of head it is often combined with radix ledebouriellae, radix angelicae dahuricae, rhizoma ligustici, etc. The drug is regard as a main medicine in treating nasosinusitis, characterized by headache with sinusitis, episodes of running nose, loss of smelling; and for the treatment of nasosinusitis it is often combined with flos magnoliae and radix angelicae dahurica.

2. Resolving dampness and arresting soreness

it is indicated in rheumatic arthralgia, numbness of muscles and often combined with rhizoma seu radix notopterygii, radix ledebouriellae, radix angelicae sinensis, radix achyranthis bidentatae, etc.

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.