Giant
Typhonium Tuber (bai fu zi)
Rhizoma Typhonii
Properties:
It is acrid sweet in flavour, warm in nature, and toxic.
It acts on the liver, stomach channels. Its acridness has
functions of dispelling wind, warmness and resolving
phlegm. It is chiefly acts in the liver channel, so is
good for removing wind-phlegm to stop spasm. Its property
is ascending and dispersing and is particularly good for
removing wind-phlegm in head and face and pathogens of
cold and dampness. Thus, it is used in treatment of
stroke, facial paralysis, headache, migraine, and other
syndromes. It can be used freshly for resolving toxic
swelling scrofula and furuncle.
Effects: Expelling dampness to reduce
phlegm, and wind to relieve spasm, detoxicating and
resolving mass.
Indications:
1. For treatment of blockage in
channels by wind-phlegm, facial hemiparalysis, it is
usually used together with Bombyx Batryticatus, Scorpio to
dispel wind, resolve phlegm, and obstruction in the
channels, such as Qianzheng San; For treatment of stroke
with abundant phlegm, aphasia, hemiplegia, it can be used
in combination with Rhizoma Arisaematis, Rhizoma Pinelliae, Scorpio, and
other drugs of resolving phlegm and dispelling wind, such
as Baifu Yin; For treatment of tetanus, it is usually used
in combination with Radix Ledebouriellae, Radix Angelicae
Dahuricae, Rhizoma Gastrodiae, and other drugs in order to
dispel wind and arrest spasm.
2. For treatment of headache and
maigraine due to adversely upward attack by cold-dampness,
it can be used together with Rhizoma Ligustici Chuanxiong,
Radix Ledebouriellae, Radix Angelicae Dahuricae, and other
drugs with the effects of relieving pain, dispelling wind
coldness and dampness.
3. For treatment of scrofula and
furuncle, fresh herb alone can be used externally after
pounding; For treatment of snakebite, it can be used
together with Rhizoma Arisaematis in water or alcohol
suspension for external application.
Dosage and Administration: 3-6g.
Suitable amount for external application.
Precautions: Contraindicated
in pregnancy. It is used freshly only for external
appliction.
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