| English
Name |
| Perilla
Fruit |
| Chinese
Name |
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| Picture |
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| Origin |
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Perilla
Fruit is the dried ripe fruit of Perilla frutescens
(L.) Britt. (Fam. Labiatae). |
| Nature
and Affinity |
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It
is pungent in taste and warm in nature, and is distributed
to the Lung Channels. |
| Main
Active Ingredient |
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| Precaution |
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Storage |
| Preserve
in a ventilated and dry place, protected from moth. |
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DESCRIPTION |
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Ovoid
or subspherical, about 1.5 mm in diameter. Externally greyish-brown
with dark purple and slightly protuberant reticulate striations,
base slightly acute, with greyish-white and pointed fruit
stalk scar. Pericarp thin and fragile, easily broken. Seeds
yellowish-white, testa membranous, eotyledons 2, whitish and
oily. Odour, aromatic by pressing; taste, slightly pungent.
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ACTION |
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To relieve
dyspnea and cough, to eliminate phlegm, and to relax bowels. |
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INDICATIONS |
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Cough
and dyspnea due to accumulation of phlegm; constipation due
to lack of intestine fluid. |
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REFERENTIAL
ADVICE |
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This
drug is used to send down adverse flow of Qi, resolve
phlegm and relieve cough and asthma. It can be used to treat
accumulation of phlegm, stuffy chest, adverse flow of Qi,
and cough and asthma, and is often used in combination with
Radix Peucedani, Citri Reticulatae, etc. It can be used in
combination with Semen Sinapis Albae and Semen Raphani.
Besides,
since this drug can moisten the intestine and treat constipation
due to dryness in the intestine, it is often administered
with such drug as Fructus Cannabis, Semen Armeniacae Amarum,
Fructus Aurantii, etc. to moisten the intestine and send down
the adverse flow of Qi.
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TIPS |
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Leaves
also used as diaphoretic and antitussive. |
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