| English
Name |
| Thinleaf
Milkwort Root |
| Chinese
Name |
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| Picture |
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| Origin |
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Thinleaf
Milkwort Root is the dried root of Polygala tenuifolia
L. (Fam. Ploygalaceae). |
| Nature
and Affinity |
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This
drug is bitter and pungent in taste and warm in nature, and
is distributed to the Heart, Kidney and Lung Channels. |
| Main
Active Ingredient |
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| Precaution |
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Storage |
| Preserve
in a ventilated dry place. |
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DESCRIPTION |
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Cylindrical,
somewhat curved, 3~15 cm long, 3~8 mm in diameter. Externally
grayish-yellow to grayish-brown, with dense and dented transverse
wrinkles, longitudinal wrinkles and fissures, old roots with
denser and deeply dented transverse wrinkles, somewhat nodular.
Texture hard and fragile, easily broken, fracture brownish-yellow
in bark, yellowish-white in wood, bark easily separating from
wood. Odour slight; taste, bitter and slightly pungent, with
an irritative sensation in the throat on chewing. |
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ACTION |
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To induce
sedation and benefit the mentality, to promote expectoration,
and to cause subsidence of swelling. |
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INDICATIONS |
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Insomnia,
dream-disturbed sleep, forgetfulness, palpitation, and trance
due to cardiac and renal incoordination; cough with sputum
difficult to expectorate; boils and sores, swelling and pain
in the breast.
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REFERENTIAL
ADVICE |
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1.Nourishing
the heart to calm the mind
In treating palpitation due to terror, restlessness, poor
memory, etc., the drug is often used in combination with Radix
Codonopsis Pilosulae, Poria, Rhizoma Acori Graminei, Semen
Ziziphi Spinosae, etc.
2.Dispelling phlegm to induce resuscitation
In treating mental disorder, confusion of the mind, palpitation
due to terror, etc. which are caused by obstruction of the
heart by phlegm, the drug is often used in combination with
Radix Curcumae, Rhizoma Acori Graminei, Alumen, etc. to reinforce
the effect of dispelling phlegm to induce resuscitation. In
treating cough with profuse sputum or with sticky sputum difficult
to be expectorated, the drug can be used in combination with
Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae and Radix Glycyrrhizae.
Besides, the drug can also be used to treat carbuncle, phlegmon,
pyogenic infections and swelling and pain of the breast. The
drug powder is taken orally with wine or applied externally
to the local area.
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TIPS |
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The
drug irritates the mucous membranes in the throat, causing hypersectretion
and expectoration; combined with Chinese licorice, it is a good
epectorant for heavy smokers. |
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