| English
Name |
| Heterophylly
Falsestarwort Root |
| Chinese
Name |
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| Origin |
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Heterophylly
Falsestarwort Root is the dried root of Pseudostellaria
heterophylla ex Pax et Hoffm.(Fam.Caryophyllaceae). |
| Nature
and Affinity |
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It
is sweet and slightly bitter in taste and neutral in nature.
Its therapeutic action is related to the Channels of the Spleen
and Lung. |
| Main
Active Ingredient |
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| Precaution |
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Storage |
| Preserve
in a ventilated dry place, protected from moisture and moth. |
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DESCRIPTION |
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Slenderly
fusiform or slat-shaped,slightly curved, 3-10 cm long, 2-6
mm in diameter. Root stock marked with stem scars, esternally
yellowish-white, relatively smooth but slightly wrinkled longitudinally,
with rootlet scars at a dent. Texture hard and fragile, fracture
even, yellowish-white and horny, or whitish and starchy. Odour,
slight; taste, sweetish.
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ACTION |
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To replenish
qi and invigorate the spleen function, and to promate fluid
secretion and moisten the lung. |
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INDICATIONS |
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Hypofunction
of the spleen with lassitude and anorexia; debility and deficiency
of qi and yin marked by spontaneous sweating and thirst during
convalescence dry cough due to dryness of the lung. |
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REFERENTIAL
ADVICE |
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Replenishing
qi to invigorate the spleen and promoting the production
of body fluid and nourishing the lung, it is used for fatigue
and poor appetite due to hypofunction of the spleen, asthenia,
spontaneous perspiration and thirst caused by insufficiency
of qi and yin during convalescence, and unproductive
cough due to dryness of the lung.
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