| English
Name |
| Garden
Burnet Root |
| Chinese
Name |
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| Picture |
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| Origin |
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Garden
Burnet Root is the dried root of Sanguisorba officinalis
L. or sanguisorba officinalis L. var. longifolia(Bert.) Yu
et Li(Fam.Rosaceae). |
| Nature
and Affinity |
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It
is bitter, sour and pucker in taste and slightly cold in nature,
and is distributed to the Liver,and Large Intestine Channel. |
| Main
Active Ingredient |
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tanninoids |
| Precaution |
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Storage |
| Preserve
in a ventilated dry place, protected from moth. |
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DESCRIPTION |
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Irregular
fusiform or cylindrical, slightly curved or twisted.5-25 cm
long.0.5-2 cm in diameter. Externally grayish-brown, brown
or dark purple, rough, with longitudinal wrinkles, transverse
fissures and rootlet scars; Texture hard, fracture relatively
even, bark with numerous yellowish-white to yellowish-brown
woolly fibres, wood yellow or yellowish-brown and approximately
arranged radially. Slices irregularly rounded or elliptical.
2-5 mm thick; cut surface purplish-red or brown. Odourless
;taste, slightly bitter and astringent.
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ACTION |
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To arrest
bleeding by dispelling heat from blood, and to counteract toxicity
and cure sores. |
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INDICATIONS |
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Hematochezia,
hemorrhoidal blooding, bloody dysentery, abnormal uterine
bleeding; scalds and burns; carbuncles, boils and sores. |
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REFERENTIAL
ADVICE |
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1.Cooling
blood to treat hematemesis, epistaxis, hematuria, metrorrhagia
and metrostaxis, etc.
It is often used in combination with Radix Rubiae. Nodus Nelumbinis
Rhizomatis, etc. In treating hemafecia, hemorrhoid with bleeding,
dysentery with blood, etc., the drug is often used in combination
with Rhizoma Bletillae, etc.
2.Subduing
swelling and relieving pain
This
drug can be used to treat scald and burns. Since this drug
has the effect of astringing blood and purging fire, it is
an important drug for scald and burns. The crude drug is ground
into powder, mixed with sesame oil and applied to the local
area. This can reduce exudate, relieve pain and speed up healing.
Alternatively, 30g of the drug, 30g of crude Radix et Rhizoma
Rhei and 1.5g of Borneolum Syntheicum are ground into powder,
mixed with sesame oil and applied to the local area. In treating
carbuncle and sores, the drug can be used in combination with
Flos Lonicerae, Herba Taraxaci, etc..
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TIPS |
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The
fresh root is pulverised, mixed with seame oil and applied
to burns, prutituc and eczema.
Chemicial component
1. triterpene and their saponin:
Ziyu-glycoside I, II, 3-O-a-L-Arabopyranosyl-28-O-ß-D-glucopyranosyl-pomolic
ester, Sanguisorbin A, B, E, L-Arabinose, Ursolic acid, ect.
2. phenolic acid compound:
Sanguiin H-1, H-2, H-3, Methyl6-O-galloyl-ß-D-glucoside,
3-O-Galloylprocyanidin, 3,3',4-TriO-methylellagic acid, ect.
Among which Sanguiin (dimeric ellagitannin) H-6 shows inhibiting
effect on the activity of DNA topoismerase, so it may have
some anti cancer effect.
3. flavonoid
Kaempferol-3, 7-O-dirhamnoside, Quercetin-3-galactoside-7-glucoside,
Hyperin
4. others
Sanguisorbic
acid dilactone, Ferulic acid, ß-sitosterol, daucosterol,
gallicum |
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