| English
Name |
| Lalang
Grass Rhizoma |
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Lalang
Grass Rhizoma is the dried rhizome of Imperata cylindrical
Beauv. Var. major (Nees) C. E. Hubb. (Fam. Gramineae). |
| Nature
and Affinity |
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It
is sweet in taste and cold in nature, and is distributed to
the Heart, Lung, Stomach and Urinary Bladder Channels. |
| Main
Active Ingredient |
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| Precaution |
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Storage |
| Preserve
in a dry place. |
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DESCRIPTION |
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Long cylindrical,
30~60 cm long, 2~4 mm in diameter. Externally yellowish-white
or yellowish, slightly lustrous, longitudinally wrinked, nodes
distinct and slightly raised, internodes varying in lengths,
usually 1.5~3 cm long. Texture, light, somewhat fragile, fracture
white in bark, mostly with cracks arranged radially, stele yellowish,
easily stripped from cortex. Odourness; taste, slightly sweetish. |
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ACTION |
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To arrest
bleeding by reducing heat in blood, to remove heat, and to cause
diuresis. |
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INDICATIONS |
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Heamatemesis,
epistaxis and hematuria due to heat in the blood; febrile
diseases with thirst; jaundice; urinary infection with difficult
painful urination; edema in acute nephritis.
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REFERENTIAL
ADVICE |
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1.
Cooling blood and arresting bleeding
This drug can be used to treat bleeding due to blood-heat,
such as hematemesis, epistaxis, hematuria, etc. It can used
alone or in combination with Radix Rehmanniae, Fructus Gardeniae
praeparatae, Nodus Nelumbinis Rhizomatis, etc.
2. Clearing away heat to induce diuresis
This drug can be used to treat pain seen in stranguria due
to heat, edema, dysuria, etc. It can be used alone or in combination
with Semen Plantaginis, etc. When decocted with Semen phaseoli,
it can be used to treat jaundice.
3. Clearing away heat to promote the production of body fluid
This drug can be used to treat febrile diseases, thirst due
to heat in the stomach, vomiting of foul food, cough due to
heat in the lung, or cough with yellow sputum. Since the drug
is sweat in taste and cold in nature and therefore has the
effect of clearing away heat in the heart, lung and stomach,
it is most suitable for those with febrile diseases accompanied
by deficiency of body fluid. The drug can be used in combination
with Rhizoma Phragmitis, Gypsum Fibrosum, etc. In treating
measles at its initial stage with retarded eruptions, the
drug can be used alone or in combination with Rhizome Phragmitis
or other drugs for promoting eruption.
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