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Latin Name
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Herba
Portulacae
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Chinese Name
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Origin
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Whole
plant
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Distribution
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It is produced all over China.
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Nature and Affinity
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The
drug is sour to the taste, cold in nature, and is distributed
to the Liver and Large Intestine Channels.
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Caution
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ACTIONS
AND INDICATIONS |
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Reducing
intense heat to remove heat toxics, relieving dysentery and
treating furuncles or sores:
To treat dysentery due heat evil or with bloody stools, the
drug can be used for decoction, or its juice of the drug may
be taken with honey; it can also be used in preventing bacillary
dysentery. To treating carbuncles or furuncles, it can be decocted,
and the fresh drug may be used by smearing on the affected area.
Besides, it can be used in treating uterine functional bleeding,
metrorrhagia or vaginal spot bleeding or postnatal bleeding;
generally it is used with Herba Leonuri, Radix Sanguisorbae,
Radix Rubiae and the others for arresting hemmorage. To treat
whooping cough, 60g of the dryg may be decocted and divided
into three doses.
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ADMINISTRATION
AND DOSAGE |
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9-15g
of the drug may be decocted; the fresh drug should be used in
30-60g; the proper amount is applied to the local affected area.
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REMARKS |
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The Chinese eat this plant as
a vegetable; may be used safely in high dosages; the fresh herb
is best for all therapeutic purposes. |
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