| English
Name |
| Common
Anemarrhena Rhizome |
| Chinese
Name |
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| Origin |
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Common
Anemarrhena Rhizome is the dried rhizome of Anemarrhena asphodeloides
Bge. (Fam. Liliaceae). |
| Nature
and Affinity |
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The
drug is bitter and sweet to taste, in nature, and distributed
to the Lung, Stomach and Kidney Channels. |
| Main
Active Ingredient |
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Sarsasapogenin
(C27H45O3) |
| Precaution |
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Storage |
| Preserve
in a ventilated and dry place, protected from moisture. |
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DESCRIPTION |
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Slat-shaped,
slightly curved, somewhat compressed, branched occasionally,
3~15 cm long, 0.8~1.5 cm in diameter. One end exhibiting pale
yellowish stem and leaf scars. Externally yellowish-brown to
brown, the upper surface exhibiting a concave groove and closely
arranged annular nodes with dense yellowish-brown remains of
leaf based growing upward bilaterally; the lower surface raised
and somewhat shriveled, exhibiting depressions or protruding
dotted root scars. Texture hard, easily broken, fracture yellowish-white,
Odour slight; taste, slightly sweetish, bitterish and viscous
on chewing. |
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ACTION |
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To remove
heat and quench fire, and to promote the production of body
fluid and relieve dryness syndrome. |
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INDICATIONS |
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Febrile
diseases with high fever and dire thirst; heat in the lung
with dry cough; consumptive fever; diabetes due to internal
heat; constipation.
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REFERENTIAL
ADVICE |
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1.Clearing
away intense heat to purge fire
For treating seasonal febrile disease due to invasion of Qi
system by evils, marked by high fever, fidgets and thirst,
it is often combined with Gypsum Fibrosum; for cough due to
lung-heat or unproductive cough or cough with expectoration
of scanty sputum due to deficiency of lung-Yin, it is often
with Bulbus Fritillariae Cirrhosae.
2.Nourishing
vital essence to relieve dryness
For treating hectic fever, nocturnal emmision, night sweating,
etc., due to deficiency of Yin and flare-up of fire, it is
often combined with Cortex Phellodendri, Radix Rehmanniae,
etc.; for sore throat or aphtha due to the same cause, with
Radix Rehmanniae, Radix Scrophulariae.
3.Promoting
the production of body fluid and arresting thirst
The drug can be used to treat thirst due to stomach-heat,or
diabetes in combination with Radix Trichosanthis, Radix Ophipogonis,
Radix Puerariae, etc.
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