| English
Name |
| Aloes |
| Chinese
Name |
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| Picture |
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| Origin |
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Aloes
is the dried concentrated matter obtained from the juice of
the leaf of Aloe barbadensis Miller, Aloe ferox
Miller or other species of the same genus. Aloe barbadensis
is habitually known as “old Aloes” and Aloe
ferox is known as “New Aloes”. |
| Nature
and Affinity |
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It
is bitter in taste, cold in nature, and distributed to the
Liver, Stomach and Large Intestine Channels. |
| Main
Active Ingredient |
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anhydrous
aloin |
| Precaution |
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Storage |
| Preserve
in a cool and dry place. |
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DESCRIPTION |
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Irregular
pieces, often broken, polygonal, varying in size. Externally
dark reddish-brown or dark brown, lusterless. Texture light
and hard, uneasily broken, fracture rough or with pockmarked
striations; hygroscopic. Odor, characteristic; taste, very
bitter.
New
Aloes Externally dark brown, slightly green, lustrous. Texture
light and lax, easily broken; fracture glassy, with striations.
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ACTION |
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To remove
heat from the liver, and to relax the bowels. |
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INDICATIONS |
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Constipation;
infantile malnutrition due to improper feeding and convulsion;
external use for eczema and ringworm. |
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REFERENTIAL
ADVICE |
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1.
Clearing away the intense heat by inducing loosing bowels
To treat
the syndtome due to invasion of the liver and gall bladder
by heat evil, accompanied with constipation, it is often used
with Radix Gentianae, Fructus Gaardeniae, Radix Scutellariae,
etc.; to treat constipation due to invasion of the intestine
by heat evil accompanied with deficiency of Yin and irascibility,
22 g of the drug and 15 g of Cinnabaris are ground into powderin
making pills by mixing with wine; and 3 g of the pills are
taken with boiled water.
2. Killing
the intestinal parasites to relieve malnutrition it can be
used with Rhizoma Picrorhizae, medicated leaven of fruit of
Ulmus macrocarpa Hance (Frucus Gaedeniae), Radix Aucklandiae,
etc.
Now it
is used to treat leukemia in combination with Indige Naturalis,
Radix Angelicae Sinensis and other for reducin gheat and nourishing
blood; by this method, quite satisfactory result has been
got.
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TIPS |
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Does
not lose effect with prolonged use, so is good for chronic cases
of constipation. |
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