| English
Name |
| White
Hyacinth Bean |
| Chinese
Name |
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| Origin |
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White
Hyacinth Bean is the dried ripe seed of Dolichos lablab
L. (Fam. Leguminosae). |
| Nature
and Affinity |
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It
is sweet in taste and slightly warm in nature, and is distributed
to the Spleen and Stomach Channels. |
| Main
Active Ingredient |
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| Precaution |
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Storage |
| Preserve
in a dry place, protected from moth. |
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DESCRIPTION |
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Flattened-ellipsoidal
or flattened-ovoid, 8~13 mm long, 6~9 mm wide, about 7 mm thick.
Externally pale yellowish-white or pale yellow, smooth, somewhat
lustrous, with a white, prominent, eyebrow-shaped caruncle at
the edge of one side. Texture hard. Testa thin and brittle,
cotyledons 2, plump, yellowish-white. Odour, slight; taste,
weak, bean-like on chewing. |
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ACTION |
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To invigorate
the spleen and remove damp, particularly the summer-damp.
Semen
Lablab Album(stir-baked) To invigorate the spleen and remove
damp. |
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INDICATIONS |
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Weakness
of the spleen and stomach with loss of appetite and loose
bowels; excessive leucorrhea; vomiting, diarrhea, distress
in the chest and distension in the abdomen caused by summer-damp.
Semen
Lablab Album (stir-baked) Diarrhea and excessive leucorrhea
in deficiency syndrome of the spleen.
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REFERENTIAL
ADVICE |
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1.
Invigorating the spleen to arrest diarrhea
In treating diarrhea or abnormal leukorrhea due to deficiency
of the spleen, the drug is often used in combination with
drugs for invigorating the spleen such as Rhizoma Atractylodis
Macrocephalae, Rhizoma Dioscoreae, etc. The drug can also
be parched and ground into powder to treat abnormal leucorrhea
with reddish discharge, 6 g of the powder being used as a
dose.
2. Removing summer-heat and resolving dampness
In treating vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal pain caused by
summer--heat and dampness, equal amount of the drug and Herba
Agastachis can be ground 'into powder and 6 g of the powder
is to be taken with water as a dose. In preventing and treating
summer-heat diseases, the drug can be used in combination
with Herba Agastachis, Cortex Magnoliae Officinalis and Radix
Glycyrrhizae.
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