| English
Name |
| Giant
Typhonium Rhizome |
| Chinese
Name |
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| Origin |
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Giant
Typhonium Rhizome is the dried tuber of Typhonium giganteum
Engl. (Fam. Araceae). |
| Nature
and Affinity |
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It
is pungent and sweet in taste and hot in nature with toxic
effect. It is distributed to the Liver and Spleen Channels. |
| Main
Active Ingredient |
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| Precaution |
| Be
cautions when the unprocessed tuber is taken orally. Used with
caution in pregnancy. |
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Storage |
| Preserve
in a ventilated and dry place, protected from moth. |
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DESCRIPTION |
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Ellipsoidal
or ovoid, 2~5 cm long, 1~3 cm in diameter. Externally white
to yellowish-white, slightly rough, exhibiting annulations and
fibrous root scars, top marked with stem scars and bud scars.
Texture hard, fracture white, starchy. Odourless; taste, weak,
with numb and pungent sensation. |
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ACTION |
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To dispel
wind-phlegm, to check convulsion, and to counteract toxicity,
promote subsidence of nodulation and relieve pain. |
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INDICATIONS |
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Stroke
with gurgling in the throat, deviation of the eye and the
mouth, and impairment of speech; upward invasion of phlegm
causing headache accompanied with dizziness, heaviness of
the body, restlessness, fidgetness, nausea and cold extremities,
or migraine; sore throat; tetanus; external use for scrofula,
venomous snake-bite.
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REFERENTIAL
ADVICE |
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1.
Removing phlegm and relieving pain
In treating dizziness due to wind-phlegm and headache due
to phlegm syndrome, the drug can be decocted together with
Rhizoma Arisaematis and Rhizoma Pinelliae.
2. Dispelling wind to relieve spasm
In treating wind-stroke manifested by deviation of mouth and
eye, the drug is often used in combination with Scorpio and
Bombyx Batryticatus. In treating convulsion and vomiting due
to excessive phlegm, the drug can be used in combination with
Rhizoma Arisaematis, Scorpio, Bombyx Batryticatus, etc. In
treating tetanus manifested by lock jaw and spasm, the drug
can be used in combination with Rhizoma Arisaematis, Radix
Ledebouriellae, Rhizoma Gastrodiae, etc.
3. Removing toxin and disintegrating mass
In treating snake bite, the drug alone can be applied to the
bite, or the drug can be used with other drugs for removing
snake poisons, to be taken orally or applied externally. In
treating scrofula and subcutaneous nodules, the fresh drug
can be pounded and applied to the local area.
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