Greenlife chinese herb database

Greenlife Chinese herb database - Buerger Pipewort Flower

Latin Name

Flos Eriocauli

Chinese Name

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Origin

The drug consists of the dried spike of the annual herbaceous plant, Eriocaulon buerferianum Koern. (Family Eriocaulaceae).

Distribution

Nature and Affinity

The drug is pungent and sweet to the taste, even in nature, and is distributed to the Liver and Lung Channels.

Caution

	ACTIONS AND INDICATIONS
	Dispersing wind-heat, relieving nebula and brightening vision: For treatment of such diseases due to wind-heat, marked by bloodshot eyes with aversion of light or nebula, it is often combined with Flos Chrysanthemi, Semen Cassiae, Herba Equiseti Hiemalis, Spica Prunellae, etc.; for nebula after measles, with pig's liver, powder of Concha Meretricis seu Cyclinae.
	ADMINISTRATION AND DOSAGE
	4.5-9g of the drug are taken for decoction.
	REMARKS