| English
Name |
| Siberian
Cocklebur Fruit |
| Chinese
Name |
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| Origin |
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Siberian
Cocklebur Fruit is the dried ripe bur with involucre of Xanthium
sibiricum Patr. (Fam. Compositae). |
| Nature
and Affinity |
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The
drug is pungent and bitter to the taste, warm and a little
poisonous in nature, and distributed to the taste , warm and
a little poisonous in nature, and distributed to the Lung
Channel. |
| Main
Active Ingredient |
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| Precaution |
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Storage |
| Preserve
in a dry place. |
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DESCRIPTION |
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Fusiform
or ovoid, 1~1.5 cm long, 4~7 mm in diameter. Externally yellowish-brown
or yellowish-green, with hooked spines throughout. Summit with
2 relatively thick spines, separated or linked up, base with
a fruit stalk scar. Texture hard and flexible, the centre of
transverse section showing a septum and 2 loculi, each having
an achene. Achene slightly fusiform, relatively even at one
side, apex with a protruding remains of style, pericarp thin,
grayish-black, with longitudinal wrinkle. Testa membranous,
pale grey, cotyledons 2, oily. Odour, slight; taste, slightly
bitter. |
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ACTION |
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To dispel
wind and damp, and to relieve nasal obstruction. |
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INDICATIONS |
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Headache
caused by wind-cold; sinusitis with nasal discharge; urticaria
with itching; arthritis with muscle contracture caused by
wind-damp.
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REFERENTIAL
ADVICE |
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1.
Dispersing wind and removing the obstruction of the orifices
It is indicated in headache due to affection by wind-cold
or wind-syndrome of head, or indicated in nasosinusitis. For
the treatment of headache due to affection by wind-cold or
wind-syndrome of head it is often combined with Radix Ledebouriellae,
Radix Angelicae Dahuricae, Rhizoma Ligustici, etc. The drug
is regard as a main medicine in treating nasosinusitis, characterized
by headache with sinusitis, episodes of running nose, loss
of smelling; and for the treatment of nasosinusitis it is
often combined with Flos Magnoliae and Radix Angelicae Dahurica.
2. Resolving dampness and arresting soreness
It is indicated in rheumatic arthralgia, numbness of muscles
and often combined with Rhizoma seu Radix Notopterygii, Radix
Ledebouriellae, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Radix Achyranthis
Bidentatae, etc.
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