Properties:
The herb is sour and sweet in flavour, slightly warm in
nature, and acts on the spleen, stomach and liver
channels. Acting on the spleen and stomach for relieving
stagnated food, strengthening the spleen and inducing
appetite, the herb is good at digesting accumulated fatty
food and meat as well as stagnated milk in children.
Acting on the liver channel and blood for promoting blood
circulation and removing blood stasis, the herb is used to
treat pains due to blood stasis.
Effects:
Relieving stagnated food, promoting blood circulation and
eliminating blood stasis.
Indications:
1. To treat
stagnated meat, distention and fullness in the stomach and
abdomen, greasy fur and oppressive chest, the herb can be
used in combination with medicated leaven, germinated
barley and areca seed for strengthening the effect of
relieving stagnated food. To treat diarrhea, dysentery and
abdominal pain, the herb is often stir-baked charred and
decocted for oral use, or used in combination with
aucklandia root, coptis root and other herbs.
2. The treat
women's stagnated blood, irregular menstruation and
abdominal pain due to obstruction by blood stasis after
childbirth, it can be used in combination with motherwort,
Chinese angelica root, chuanxiong rhizome, peach kernel
and other drugs for promoting blood circulation,
regulating menstruation, eliminating blood stasis and
alleviating pain.
In addition, in
recent years, the herb is often clinically decocted or
prepared with wine to treat coronary heart disease,
hypertension and enlarged liver and spleen.
Dosage and
Administration:
10-15g, 30g
for a large dose.
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