| English
Name |
| Common
Bletilla Tuber |
| Chinese
Name |
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| Picture |
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| Origin |
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Common
Bletilla Tuber is the dried tuber of Bletilla striata
(Thunb.) Reichb. f. (Fam. Orchidaceae). |
| Nature
and Affinity |
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It
is bitter, sweet and astringent in taste and slightly cold
in nature, and is distributed to the Lung, Liver and Stomach
Channels. |
| Main
Active Ingredient |
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| Precaution |
| Incompatible
with Radix Aconiti and allied drugs. |
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Storage |
| Preserve
in a ventilated and dry place. |
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DESCRIPTION |
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Irregularly
oblate, mostly with 2~3 claw-like branches, 1.5~5cm long, 0.5~1.5cm
thick. Externally grayish-white or yellowish-white, possessing
several concentric rings and brown dotted rootlet scars, with
raised stem scars above and with a trace of another tuber jointed
below. Texture hard and uneasily broken, fracture whitish and
horny. Odorless; taste, bitter and viscous on chewing. |
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ACTION |
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To arrest
bleeding, and to promote the subsidence or swelling and the
growth of new tissue. |
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INDICATIONS |
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Hemoptysis
in pulmonary tuberculosis, hematemesis in peptic ulcer, traumatic
bleeding; boils and sores; rhagadia.
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REFERENTIAL
ADVICE |
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1.
Astringing blood to arrest bleeding
This drug
can be used to treat bleeding of the lung or stomach. The
drug powder can be used along, e.g. for bleeding of the lung,
or the drug can be used in combination with powder of Cyclina
sinensis, Folium Eriobotryae, etc. In treating hemoptysis
seen in pulmonary tuberculosis with cavitation, the drug can
be used in combination with Colophonium, Rhizoma Anemarrhenae,
Bulbus Lilii, etc. In treating bleeding of the stomach, ulcer
and perforation of the stomach or duodenum, et., the drug
can be used in combination with Os Sepiellae seu Sepiae, etc.
In treating bleeding due to unhealed trauma and sores, the
drug powder alone or combined with Gypsum Fibrosum Usta can
be applied to the local area. In treating scald or chap of
the hand and foot, the drug can be mixed with sesame oil and
then applied to the local area.
2. Subduing
swelling and promoting tissue regeneration
In treating carbuncle and swelling, the drug is often used
in combination with Flos Lonicerae, Squama Manitis, Spina
Gleditsiae, etc..
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TIPS |
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For
external use, the drug is powdered and mixed with sesame oil;
it is astringent and emollient to burns, abscesses and other
skin irritations; it is highly hemostatic in bleeding wounds;
internally, it is most effective in stomach and lung hemorrhages. |
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