Pricklyash
Peel (hua jiao)
Pericarpium
Zanthoxyli
Properties:
The herb is pungent in flavour, hot in nature, and acts on
the spleen, stomach and kidney channels. Being pungent,
hot and dry for warming the middle-jiao, dispersing cold,
alleviating pain, arresting diarrhea and expelling
roundworm, the herb is indicated for cold of insufficiency
type in the middle-jiao, stomachache, roundworm and other
syndromes.
Effects:
Warming the middle-jiao, alleviating pain and expelling
roundworm.
Indications:
1. To treat cold
of insufficiency type in the middle-jiao, cold and pain in
the stomach and abdomen, vomiting, diarrhea and other
syndromes, the herb is often used in combination with
dangshen, dried ginger and other herbs for warming the
middle-jiao, dispersing cold, strengthening the spleen and
arresting diarrhea, such as Dajianzhong Decoction.
2. To treat
abdominal pain due to roundworm, vomiting or vomiting with
roundworm, the herb is often used in combination with
black plum, coptis root, asarum herb and other herbs for
expelling roundworm and relieving colic caused by the
worm, such as Wumei Pill.
In addition, the
herb can also be used to treat diarrhea due to cold and
dampness, itching due to eczema, women's pruritus valvae
and other syndromes.
Dosage and
Administration: 3-6g.
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