| English
Name |
| Palmleaf
Raspberry Fruit |
| Chinese
Name |
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| Picture |
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| Origin |
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Palmleaf
Raspberry Fruit is the dried fruit of Rubus chingii
Hu (Fam. Rosaceae). |
| Nature
and Affinity |
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It
is sweet and sour in taste and warm in nature, and distributed
to the Kidney and Bladder Channels. |
| 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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Aggregate
fruit consisting of numerous small drupes, conical or flattened-conical,
0.6-1.3cm high, 0.5-1.2cm in diameter. Externally yellowish-green
or pale brown, apex obtuse, base depressed in the centre.
Persistent calyx brown, with a scar of fruit stalk. Drupelets
easily fallen, lunate, dorsal surface densely covered with
grayish-white pubescences, reticulate striations distinct
on both sides, ventral surface with prominent ridges. Texture
hard and light. Odour, slight; taste, slightly sour and astringent.
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ACTION |
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To benefit
the kidney, and arrest seminal discharge and excessive urination. |
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INDICATIONS |
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Enuresis,
frequent urination, impotence, premature ejaculation, seminal
emission and spermatorrhea in deficiency syndrome of the kidney. |
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REFERENTIAL
ADVICE |
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1.Tonifying
the kidney and reducing urination
In treating
frequent micturition, enuresis, etc. the drug is often used
in combination with Ootheca Mantidis, Fructus Alpiniae Oxyphyllae,
Semen Cuscutae,Fructus Corni, etc.
2.Tonifying
the kidney and controlling seminal emission
In treating
seminal emission, impotence ,etc.the drug is often used in
combination with Fructus Lycii,Semen Cuscutae,Fructus Schisandrae,
Semen Plantaginis, etc.
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TIPS |
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It
improves vision in liver and kidney deficient symptoms. |
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