| English
Name |
| Isatis
Root |
| Chinese
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| Origin |
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Isatis
Root is the dried root of Isatis indigotica Fort.
(Fam. Cruciferae). |
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and Affinity |
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| Main
Active Ingredient |
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| Precaution |
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Storage |
| Preserve
in a cool and dry place, protected from mould and moth. |
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DESCRIPTION |
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Cylindrical,
slightly tortuous, 10-20 cm long, 0.5-1 cm in diameter. Externally
greyish-yellow or brownish-yellow, wrinkled longitudinally
and lenticellate horizontally, with rotlets or rootlet scars,
exhibiting dark green or dark brown petiole-bases, arranged
in whorls, and closed tubercles. Texture compact, yellowish-white
in bark and yellow in wood. Odour, slight; taste, sweetish
then bitter and astringent.
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ACTION |
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To remove
toxic heat, to reduce heat in blood, and to soothe the sore
throat. |
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INDICATIONS |
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Eruptive
epidemic diseases with dark red or purplish tongue; mumps;
pharyngitis, laryngitis, scarlet fever; erysipelas; carbuncle. |
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REFERENTIAL
ADVICE |
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TIPS |
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