Greenlife Chinese herb database - Rhizoma Alismatis (Ze Xie)
English Name
Oriental Waterplantian Rhizome
Chinese Name
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Rhizoma Alismatis

Origin
Oriental Waterplantian Rhizome is the dried tuber of Alisma orientalis (Sam.) Juzep. (Fam. Alismataceae).
Nature and Affinity
Main Active Ingredient
Precaution
 
Storage
Preserve in a dry place, protected from moth.
herb DESCRIPTION
 

Subspherical, elliptical or ovate, 2~7 cm long, 2~6 cm in diameter. Externally yellowish-white or yellowish-brown, with irregular transverse-annular shallow furrows and numerous small raised fibrous root scars, occasionally tuberculate bud scars attached to the base. Texture compact, fracture yellowish-white, starchy, with numerous small pores. Odour, slight; taste, slightly bitter.

herb ACTION
  To cause diuresis, and to remove damp-heat.
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INDICATIONS
 

Edema with oliguria; diarrhea with diminished discharge of urine; vertigo due to retention of fluid; acute urinary infection with difficult painful urination; hyperlipemia.

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