Herba Epimedium Brevicornum

Herba Epimedium Brevicornum

Source: The branch and leaf of Epimedium sagittatum (Sieb. Et Zucc.) Maxim. or E. brevicornum Maxim. and other Epimedium species; family Berberidaceae.
Characteristics: Perennial herb, plant height 20-60 cm, rhizome thick and short, dark brown, two-and-three-leaved compound basal and stem, with long handle, leaflet paper or Thick paper, leafy thorns, white or yellowish flowers, flowering from May to June, fruiting from June to August. Acrid and bitter in taste, warm in nature, and it can be returned to the liver and kidney. It has the effects of tonifying kidney and strengthening yang, removing wind and dehumidification, and strengthening bones. Indications of kidney deficiency, impotence, premature ejaculation, cold infertility, urinary frequency incontinence, kidney deficiency and cough, weak waist and knees, ribs and bones, rheumatism, numbness, numbness, hemiplegia, limbs, menopause, diarrhea, cough, etc. .
Indication：

  • Enhance the secretion of hormones, can improve the sexual desire of men and women, and have the effect of aphrodisiac to enhance sexual function. The efficacy of medicinal herbs is strong and strong. Tonic liver and kidney, strong bones and muscles, help Yang Yijing, kidney and impotence, excitatory function, hurricane cold and dampness, lower blood pressure, anti-virus. Indications: impotence, nocturnal emission, frequent urination, cold waist and knee pain, weak waist and knees, ribs and bones, hemiplegia, neurasthenia, amnesia, rheumatism, hand and foot, numbness, hypertension. It can also treat amnesia.

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    Radix Codonopsis Pilosulae

    Radix Codonopsis Pilosulae

    Source:Root of Codonopsis pilosula(Franch.) Nannf., and other several species of the same genus, family Campanulaceae.
    Characteristics:Axial root stout, few of branch roots, long-terete 10-15cm long, 0.4-2.0cm in diameter. Cork greyish yellow, lenticellate; root base with numerous tuberculate stem bases or buds; dense annular marks appearing at the upper part and spotted fibrous root scars covered with brown sticky material at the lower. Cross section even or showing radial marks. Soft and tenacious in texture. Aromatic in odour. Sweet in taste, mild in nature, and attributive to spleen and lung channels.
    Indication:

  • Supplement middle-jiao energy, benefit the lung, promote the production of body fluid, nourish blood: For insufficiency of middle-jiao energy manifested as poor appetite, loose stools and fatigue, usually used together with Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae; for collapse of middle-jiao energy manifested as prolapse of rectum hysteroptosis, gastroptosis, nephroptosis, etc., used together with Radix Astragali seu Hedysari, Atractylodis Macrocephalae, Rhizoma Cimicifugae and Radix Bupleuri; for deficiency of vital energy and of blood manifested as poor appetite, fatigue, pale complexion and palpitation; for metrorrhagia, hypermenorrhea, hematemesis, hemoptysis, and hemafecia due to the failure of controlling blood by the spleen; for lung-energy deficiency with dyspnea, cough, shortness of breath and speaking in a weak voice. Recently, also used for neurasthenia, anemia, dysfunctional uterine bleeding, anaphylactoid purpura and thrombocytopenic purpura, usually used together with Astragali seu Hedysari and radix Angelicae Sinensis. Also for skin infection, common cold in energy-deficiency patients,diabetes, and febrile diseases with consumption of body fluid and thrist.

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    Herba Glechoma Longituba

    Herba Glechoma Longituba

    Sources：Lysimachia christinae Hance), alias: crossing yellow , mirror grass , green screen grass , lotus grass, meat grass, golden key, even money grass, opposite grass, leaf money grass, money Ye Cao, Qian Jinjin and so on. It is a genus of various plants, which is a perennial small herb of the genus Angiosperm, T. chinensis , Primula , and Lysimachia .
    Characteristics:Leaves kidney-shaped to round, 4-25 mm in diam., flowers simple leaf axils , stalk shorter than petiolate, filamentous; green leaves, yellow flowers.
    Indication:Removes damp heat, relieves dysuria and reduces swelling

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    Apocynum Venetum Folium

    Apocynum Venetum Folium

    Sources：Apocynum venetum is a perennial herb Apocynum Apocynaceae genus.
    Characteristics:Upright semi-shrub, 1.5-3 meters high, generally about 2 meters high, up to 4 meters, with milk Branches opposite or alternate, cylindrical, smooth, glabrous, purplish red or reddish. Leaves opposite, only sub-opposite at branches, leaves elliptic-lanceolate to ovoid-oblong, 1-5 cm long, 0.5-1.5 cm wide (maximum up to 8 × 2.2 cm), apex Sharp-pointed to blunt, pubescent, apically acute, apically acutely pubescent, pubescent, pubescent, pubescent, pubescent, pubescent, pubescent, pubescent, sessate Strips, netting before leaf margin; petiole 3-6 mm long; glands between petiole, detached when old. Conical cymes one-to-many, usually terminal, sometimes axils, stalks ca. 4 mm long, pubescent; sate lanceolate, lanceolate, ca. 4 mm, ca. 1 mm. 1-5 mm, 0.5 mm wide; calyx 5-lobed, lobulate lanceolate or ovate-lanceolately lanceolate, pubescently pubescently lanceolate, ca. 1.5 mm long, ca. 0.6 mm. Bell-shaped, purplish red or pink, densely lobed on both sides, corolla tube 6-8 mm long, 2-3 mm in diam., base of corolla lobes sate to sate, lobate ovoid oblong, sately broadly lanceolate It is blunt or round, almost equal to the corolla tube, 3-4 mm long and 1.5-2.5 mm wide. Each lobes has three distinct purple-red veins inside and outside; the stamens are inserted at the base of the corolla and alternate with the corolla lobes. Anther 2-3 mm; anthers arrow-shaped, tip acuminate, concealed in the throat, abaxially abaxially abaxially abaxially abaxially abaxially sessately sessately sessately sessately sessately White hairy; pistil 2-2.5 mm long, short style, upper inflated, lower part lower, base of stigma Shape, apical apex, 2-lobed; ovary consisting of 2 detached carpels, pubescent, nectar of each carpel, inserted in ovate Meaty, irregularly 5-lobed at the top, basal connate, surrounding ovary, inserted on a receptacle.
    Indication:

  • A unique therapeutic effect on high blood pressure and hyperlipidemia: Apocynum venetum tea contains rutin, similar to vitamin P activity, can maintain or restore the normal resistance of capillaries, enhance the flexibility and elasticity of blood vessels, reduce serum cholesterol, and prevent fat from depositing in the blood vessel wall. Tannic acid in tea can inhibit the increase of blood pressure and reduce the blood pressure of patients with hypertension. In particular, Apocynum venetum tea has a good decomposition effect on protein and fat. Polyphenols and vitamin C can lower cholesterol and blood lipids.
  • Delay aging, beauty and beauty: Aging is related to free radical reaction, while flavonoids contained in Apocynum venetum have strong anti-oxidation effect, and a large amount of vitamin C also has strong anti-oxidation effect, and vitamin E can also enhance the anti-oxidation effect of cells. Apocynum venetum tea also contains diploid fibroblasts that are beneficial to human embryonic lung development and long-term use, safe and harmless. It has obvious anti-oxidation effect, reduces the formation of cataract, and the cellulite in the plant extracts, together with various compounds such as inositol, folic acid, pantothenic acid and aromatic substances in tea, can regulate fat metabolism. In addition, the tea contains flavonoids. It directly captures oxygen free radicals and hydroxyl radicals, and at the same time enhances immune function, which is beneficial to improve the body's anti-aging ability. Drinking tea often reduces skin pigmentation. All of these indicate that Apocynum venetum has the effect of delaying aging.
  • Promote digestion and anti-constipation, laxative: Apocynum venetum tea contains a lot of nutrients such as amino acids and organic acids, which can promote the biosynthesis of gastric acid and stimulate the secretion of gastric juice. Therefore, it has the functions of digestion and stagnation, spleen and stomach, and liver and vitality. For dyspepsia, gastritis, enteritis, chronic constipation, etc. have a certain effect. The amino acids in tea can stimulate the secretion of gastric juice, enhance appetite and promote the digestive function of the stomach; tea contains vitamin B and aromatic oil, and also has the function of improving appetite and promoting digestion.
  • Cardiac diuresis has adjuvant treatment for diabetes: Quercetin is one of the main active ingredients of Apocynum venetum L. and has obvious diuretic effects. In addition, Apocynum venetum tea contains high magnesium, which contains 930 mg of magnesium per 100 g, while magnesium has a direct relationship with insulin secretion from the pancreas. The insulin secreted by islets is released by cholecystokinin, and cholecystokinin is released. Magnesium is needed to revitalize, so drinking apocynum tea has an adjuvant treatment effect on diabetes.
  • Poor sleep and calming effect: Apocynum venetum L. extract has a synergistic effect on the sedative and hypnotic effects of pentobarbital. After 1.5 minutes of intravenous injection of apocynum venetum leaves, the cortex can show a high-pressure slow-wave sleep. Animal experiments showed that there was no obvious sedative effect on the insoluble parts of Apocynum venetum L. and its insoluble parts of ethanol, while the ether-soluble part of the water extract and the sub-threshold hypnotic dose of sodium pentobarbital synergized. The number increases with increasing dose and reproducibility is better. Among the polar or large polar parts of the Apocynum venetum leaves, there are substances that are calming, soothing and hypnotic.
  • Arrhythmia: The flavonoids contained in Apocynum venetum can prevent antiarrhythmia, anti-myocardial ischemia, relieve angina and improve heart function by scavenging reactive oxygen free radicals, and help improve cerebral ischemia and improve oxygen supply to the brain. Vascular disease and hemiplegia, dementia and other symptoms have a certain healing effect.
  • Clear fire: Apocynum venetum contains a variety of biologically active ingredients that have different degrees of regulation on the immune system. It protects the liver from detoxification, has a clear regulatory effect on humoral immunity, and has certain anti-allergic and anti-viral effects. Therefore, the effect of clearing the fire and calming the liver is achieved.
  • Antibacterial, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, analgesic effect: Tea polyphenols and citric acid act on bacteria, and the proteins that can coagulate bacteria kill bacteria, and then cooperate with plant natural antibacterial factors, which can be used to treat intestinal diseases such as cholera, typhoid, dysentery and enteritis. The tea polyphenols and other components in the tea have an inhibitory effect on the growth of various human enteroviruses, and the theaflavins in the tea can be combined with the infectious nucleic acid to reduce the invasiveness of the virus. Skin sores, ulceration, pus, traumatic skin, washed the affected area with concentrated apocynum venetum tea, anti-inflammatory and bactericidal effect. Inflammation of the mouth, ulceration, sore throat, treatment with apocynum venetum tea, also has a certain effect.

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    Herba Andrographics Paniculata

    Herba Andrographics Paniculata

    Sources: Andrographis paniculata is an annual herbaceous plant in the family Acanthaceae.
    Characteristics: Grow erect, many branches, branches in square shape, sharp edges; leaves opposite, lanceolate or narrowly lanceolate, ca. 2 to 8 cm long, 5 to 25 mm wide. Flowering in summer and autumn, white or lavender, arranged in terminal or axillary racemes. The capsule is linear, oblong, and approximately 1.5 cm long. Bitter in taste, cold in nature, and attributive to heart and lung channels.
    Indications:

  • Detoxification: Andrographis paniculata can clear away heat and detoxification, attending cold and fever, sore throat, sore tongue. Used for colds and fever, sore throat, mouth sores, cough and phlegm, diarrhea and diarrhea, hot dripping pain, swollen sores, poisonous snake bites.
  • Cool blood: Andrographis can cool the blood, attending cough and sputum, diarrhea and dysentery.
  • Detumescence: Andrographis can be used to reduce swelling, attending swollen sores and poisonous snake bites.
  • Dampness: Andrographis can be damp, attending hot and sore pain. Andrographis paniculata is used as a heat-clearing dampness drug, which can be used for a variety of damp-heat syndromes.
  • Antibacterial: Andrographis paniculata has different degrees of inhibition on pneumococci, Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and dysentery bacilli, and can improve the phagocytic ability of white blood cells. Various lactone components such as diterpene lactone in Andrographis paniculata have different degrees. Anti-inflammatory effect. Andrographis paniculata has anti-inflammatory and detoxifying effects and has been used clinically in a variety of infectious diseases, including traumatic infections and sputum.

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    Flos Syzygium Aromaticum

    Flos Syzygium Aromaticum

    Sources: Eugenia caryophyllata Thunb. [E. aromatica Baill.; Syzygium aromatica (L) Merr. et Perry].
    CHaracteristics:It is slightly rod-shaped and is 1~2cm long. Corolla rounded, 0.3-0.5 cm in diameter, petals 4, complex tile-shaped, brown or brownish yellow, stamens and styles in petals, numerous yellow fine-grained anthers. The cylinder is cylindrical, slightly flat, slightly curved, 0.7-1.4 cm long, 0.3-0.6 cm in diameter, reddish-brown or tan, with four triangular-shaped sepals on the upper part, separated by a cross. Solid and oily. The aroma is strong, spicy and numb. Taste in acrid, warm in nature, and attributive to spleen, stomach,lung, kidney channels.
    Indication:

  • For stomach cold vomiting, hiccups. This product features warming and dispelling cold, reducing the stagnation of vomiting and phlegm, and is an essential medicine for treating stomach cold and vomiting. Treatment of chills and hiccups, often used with persimmon, codonopsis, ginger, plus clove persimmon soup. Treatment of stomach cold vomiting, can be used with Pinellia and ginger. Treat spleen and stomach cold and vomiting and diarrhea, eat less, can be used with Atractylodes, Amomum, and add cloves.
  • It is used for stomach cold, abdominal cold pain, and can be used with Yanhusuo, Wulingzhi and Orange.
  • It is used for kidney deficiency and impotence, and the palace is cold. This product has the function of warming the kidney and helping the yang to rise. It can be used with aconite, cinnamon and epimedium.

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    Flos Lonicera Japonica

    Flos Lonicera Japonica

    Sources:Lonicera japonica is a perennial trailing or climbing woody vine of the honeysuckle family (Caprifoliaceae).
    Characteristics:Semi-evergreen entwined shrubs resemble vines, grow to several meters, young branches green or dark brown, densely tan-brown, hard straight-brown, with glandular hairs and pubescent; old branches reddish brown, less hairy or smooth . Leaves opposite, ovate or oblong-ovate, 3–5 (–9.5) cm long, 1.5–4 cm wide, apex acuminate or obscurate, base sateate, entire, sessately sessate. Shortly rough, the lower part is usually smooth and hairless, and the lower part is blue-white; the petiole is about 5 mm long and has a pair of axils, a pair of sepals, leaf-like, ovate to elliptic, 2 to 3 cm long, bracteoles. Leaves, ca. 1 mm; calyx tube glabrous, ca. 5-locate, ovate or urately lanceolate, lanceolate lanceolate lanceolate lanceolate lanceolate lanceolate lanceolate lanceolate ~4.5 (~6) cm, white, sometimes the base is slightly red on the sunny side, then turned yellow, the outside is slightly inverted or semi-developed with rough and long glandular hairs, upper split, lip shape, upper lip 4 lobes often merged Upright, lower lip reversal, about longer than corolla tube; stamens 5; pistil 1, ovary globose in ovary, mature black flowers in the period of 4 to 6 months, fruiting period 7 to 10 months, autumn can also bloom.
    Indications:

  • For bloated hemorrhoids. This product is sweet and cold, clearing away heat and detoxifying, dispersing phlegm and swelling, and is an essential medicine for treating all carbuncles and hemorrhoids. For the treatment of hemorrhoids, red hot and swollen pain, you can use this product to decoction alone, or use the slag to apply the affected area, or with the saponin, pangolin, and white peony, such as Xianfang live drink; if used for hemorrhoids, Redness and heat pain, hard roots, often used with purple diced, dandelion, wild chrysanthemum, such as Wuwei disinfection drink; such as for intestinal pain, often associated with angelica, mantle, jaundice, such as Qingchang drink; For the lungs, cough, pus and blood, often used with Houttuynia, Reed, and Peach, to clear the lungs and drain the pus.
  • For exogenous wind and heat, the beginning of the warm disease. This product is sweet and cold, aromatic and evacuated, good for dispelling lungs through heat evil, clearing heart and stomach heat. Often used with Forsythia, mint, and burdock, such as Yinqiaosan ; if you enter the blood, the tongue is dizzy, and you are less upset, often with the birthplace, berberine, etc., such as Qingying soup , this product has a camp The power of turning to gas.
  • For heat toxic blood stasis. This product is sweet and cold, with heat and detoxification, cooling blood, and stopping phlegm. Therefore, it is often used for heat toxic blood stasis and pus and blood. It can be effective by using only thick fried. Can also be used with Astragalus, Coptis, Pulsatilla and other drugs to enhance the effect of stopping phlegm. In addition, honeysuckle and water distillation can be made into honeysuckle flower, which has the effect of clearing heat and relieving heat, and can be used for heat and polydipsia, sore throat, and heat sores and scorpions in children.

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    Ginseng

    Ginseng

    SourcesDry roots of the ginseng of the Araliaceae plant.
    Characteristics: Perennial herb; main root fleshy, cylindrical or spindle-shaped, slender root; rhizome (reed) short, with stem marks (reed bowl) and buds; stems solitary, erect, 40-60 cm high. The leaves are palm-shaped compound leaves, 2 to 6 rounds of stems, depending on the age: 1 year has 3 small leaves, 2 years have 5 small leaves 1 to 2, 3 years old 2 to 3, 4 years old 3 to 4 4 to 5 years old, 5 to 5, the largest 6; small leaves 3 to 5, the middle one is the largest, oval or elliptical, 3 to 12 cm long, 1 to 4 cm wide, base wedge-shaped, apex acuminate, The edges are finely serrated, and the upper part of the vein is sparsely bristled. Umbellate terminal, flowers small; flower bud-shaped, with 5 teeth; petals 5, yellowish green; Stamens 5, short filaments, anthers globose; sublocate lower, 2-locate, style 1, stigma 2-lobed. The berry-shaped drupe is oblate or kidney-shaped, bright red when mature; seed 2, oblate, yellow-white.
    Indications: Invigorate vitality, using astringency and promoting the production of body fluid, promote digestion and increase appetite, tranquilize mind

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    Schizonepeta Tenuifolia

    Schizonepeta Tenuifolia

    Sources: Schizonepeta Tenuifolia is a species of the Labiatae family, perennial herb.
    Characteristics: The height is 60-120 cm, the stem is square and the aroma is rich. Leaves opposite, basal petiole sessile, blade pinnately lobed, lobes 3 to 5, linear, entire, sessate gland. The flowers are umbrella-shaped, densely on the branches, forming spikes (two kinds of long spikes and two spikes), reddish purple, two-lip petals, and two strong stamens. Four small nuts.
    Indications:

  • sweating solution, the effect is more moderate.
  • anti-inflammatory
  • stop bleeding, there is a hemostatic effect after burning charcoal. Experiments have shown that after the black mustard is turned into charcoal, it can shorten the time of bleeding and coagulation.

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    Radix Eurycoma Longifolia

    Radix Eurycoma Longifolia

    Sources: Flowering plant in the family Simaroubaceae.
    Characteristics: The trunk of Radix Eurycoma Longifolia is 8 to 10 cm in diameter and can grow up to 30 cm in diameter as it ages. The tree has almost no forks and the leaves grow on top like umbrellas. The roots usually split, and the depth of the ground can reach 2 meters. Bitter in taste, cold in nature.
    Indication:

  • Relieve diabetes, high blood sugar, high blood fat and high blood pressure.
  • Enhance immunity, improve physical function, refreshing anti-fatigue.
  • Improve male prostate disease and enhance kidney function.
  • Reduce the symptoms of gout and rheumatism.
  • Blood-clearing effect, promote liver detoxification and blood circulation.
  • Anti-viral effect, anti-cancer effect.
  • Improve male testosterone secretion, improve sexual ability.

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    Radix Platycodon Grandiflorum

    Radix Platycodon Grandiflorum

    Sources: The root of the perennial herb Platycodon grandiflorum (Jaoq. A.DC.).
    Characteristics: Herbs perennial, 40-90 cm high. The plant has milk, and the whole plant is smooth and hairless. The roots are thick and fleshy, conical or bifurcated, and the coat is yellowish brown. Stems erect, branched; leaves mostly alternate, few opposite, subsessile, leaf blade long ovate, margin serrate; flowers sessately sessately sessately sessately sessately sessately sessate Bell-shaped, blue-violet or blue-white, lobes 5. Capsule ovate, apex cleft when ripe. Acrid and bitter in taste, mild in nature, attributice to lung channels.
    Indication: Used as a cough suppressant and expectorant for common colds, cough, sore throat, tonsillitis, and chest congestion.

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    Radix Polygoni Multiflori Preparata

    Radix Polygoni Multiflori Preparata

    Sources: The roots of the perennial herb Polygonum multiflorum Thunb, family Polygonaceae.
    Characteristics: Stout blocky rhizome; oval heart-shaped leaves, entire, both sides are rough and hairless, sheath-like stipules, without margins, often ruptured and premature. blossom yellow and white flowers in autumn, panicles, flowers in the outer three fruit stages, hypertrophy, back sheath, wrapped in achenes. Sweet and bitter in taste, mild in nature, and attributive to heart, liver, large intestine channels.
    Indication:

  • Tonifies the Liver and Kidneys.
  • Nourishes the blood and augments Jing.
  • Darkens hair.
  • Strengthens bones and tendons.

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    Radix Rehmanniae Preparatum

    Radix Rehmanniae Preparatum

    Sources: Root Of Rehmannia glutinosa Libosech., family Scrophulariaceae. Prepared by steaming it with wine and drying repeatedly.
    Characteristics: Root irregular masses, varying in size, dark and lustrous. Soft and sticky in texture. Sweet and slightly bitter in taste, slightly warm in nature, and attributive to heart, liver, and kidney channels.
    Indication:

  • Produce essence and enrich blood: For Insufficiency of essence and blood manifested as sallow complextion, fatigue, dizziness, palpitation, menoxenia, metrorrhagia.
  • Nourish yin and moisturize dryness: For deficiency of liver-yin and kidney-yin manifested as hectic fever, night sweat, emission adn diabetes usually used together with Fructus Corni and Rhizoma Dioscoreae; also used for prurigo due to dryness of blood, muscular spasm due to blood-deficiency or yin-deficiency, and constipation due to insufficiency of blood fluid and blood
  • Invigorate the liver and kidney: For backache with knee aching due to deficiency of liver and kidney, such as chronic lumbar strain, hyperplasia of lumbar vertebra. etc.: for endemic osteoarthritis deformans, usually used together with Herba Cistanches; also for dyspnea and chronic cough of kidney-deficiency type. Recently used singly for hypertension and hypercholesterinemia.

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    Radix Glycyrrhiza Uralensis

    Radix Glycyrrhiza Uralensis

    Sources: The root of Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch., Glycyrrhiza inflata Bat. and Glycyrrhiza glabra L., perennial plants of the Leguminosae family. The medicinal part is used in raw form or roasted with honey.
    Characteristics: The root is cylindrical, 25 to 100 cm long and 0.6 to 3.5 cm in diameter. The skin is tight. The surface is reddish brown or grayish brown with significant longitudinal wrinkles, grooves, lenticels and sparse fine root marks. The material is solid, the section is slightly fibrous, yellowish white, powdery, and the formation of the layer ring is obvious, the radiation is radial, and some have cracks. The rhizome has a cylindrical shape with bud marks on the surface and a pith in the middle of the section. Sweet in taste, mild in nature, and attributive to spleen, stomach, heart and lung channels.
    Indication:

  • Liquorice root replenishes qi (vital energy), facilitates spleen and stomach functioning: Spleen and stomach deficiencies lead to a low level of qi, which makes individuals develop fatigue, general weakness, poor appetite and loose bowels, liquorice root can work with pilose asiabell root, largehead atractylodes rhizome and poria for relief. Persistent spleen weakness may result in insufficient qi to hold the internal organs in their proper places, prolapse of the anus or other organs will then develop, which can be treated by liquorice root combining with astragalus root, bupleurum root and bugbane rhizome.
  • Liquorice root is used in a variety of cough conditions: The herb can work with ephedra and bitter apricot kernel to treat wind-cold cough; gypsum, pinellia tuber and poria to treat phlegm-dampness cough; snake gourd and unibract fritillary bulb to treat phlegm-heat cough; fourleaf ladybell root and dwarf lily-turf tuber to treat yin deficiency cough; gypsum, ephedra and bitter apricot kernel to treat heat cough and panting; dried ginger, Manchurian wildginger and schisandra to treat cold cough and panting.
  • Liquorice root is used in muscular spasms: The herb can combine with white peony root, angelica root and suberect spatholobus stem to relieve muscular spasms that due to blood deficiency; cassia twig, peony root and fresh ginger to relieve abdominal colic that due to excessive coldness in the spleen and stomach.
  • Liquorice root is often used to modulate undesirable harshness or toxic properties in the remedies. For example, the herb is added in purgative remedies, so as to reduce the adverse effects of rhubarb and sodium sulfate, such as abdominal pain. It often acts as a buffer to harmonize different ingredients in a remedy, and may also be a sweetening to make the decoction easy to drink.
  • Liquorice root can promote the healing of pus-forming infections or inflammatory conditions. In dermatitis or boils, liquorice root can combine with honeysuckle flower, weeping forsythia capsule and dandelion for internal and external treatments. The herb can work with platycodon root to relieve sore throat.
  • Processed liquorice root is an important ingredient for palpitation and abnormal heart beating, which TCM regards as the signs of inadequate blood and qi in the heart. The herb is usually prescribed with ginseng, donkey-hide gelatin, cassia twig and rehmannia root to replenish blood and qi in the heart.
  • In TCM, hysteria is an emotional disorder that due to heart weakness or liver stagnation, physicians will use liquorice root, shriveled wheat and Chinese date as the basic ingredients, and then combine other ingredients to treat individual conditions accordingly.
  • Liquorice root can be used to detoxify. For mild poisoning and there is no available antidote, physicians may try to alleviate it by a concentrated solution of liquorice root. The herb can be used alone, or boiled with mung bean, black soybean or honey.

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    Radix Sophora Flavescens Extract

    Radix Sophora Flavescens Extract

    Sources: The root of Sophora flavescen Ait., a perennial deciduous shrub plant of the family Leguminosae. It is produced all over China. Harvested in spring and autumn, sliced, dried, and used.
    Characteristics: Cylindrical, 10 to 30 cm long, 1 to 2 cm in diameter. The surface is grayish brown or brownish yellow with obvious longitudinal wrinkles, and the lenticels are prominently protruding and slightly revolved, extending laterally. The cork is very thin, brownish yellow or grayish brown, and most of the ruptures are curled outwards, which are easily peeled off and appear yellow smooth skin. It is hard and hard to break, and its profile is thick and fibrous. The cross section is yellowish white and the formation layer is obvious. The air is pungent and the taste is extremely bitter. Radix Sophora Flavescens Extract tablets are chamfered slices, varying in size, slanted or oblong, 2.5 cm long, 1 to 1.5 cm wide, and 2 to 5 mm thick. Hard, cut surface yellowish white, with ring-shaped annual rings, xylem for radiation. Bitter in taste, cold in nature and attributive to heart, liver, stomach, large intestine, and bladder channel.
    Indication:

  • Clear away heat and dampness
  • Insecticide and diuretic.

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    Rhizoma Ligusticum Chuanxiong Extract

    Rhizoma Ligusticum Chuanxiong Extract

    Source: The rhizome of Ligusticum Chuanxiong Hort.,family Umbelliferae.
    Characteristics: Rhizome nodular fist-like masses, 1.5-7.0cm in diameter. Surface yellow-brown, with many and dense stem nodes, protruding, with rounded depresseed stem scars on the upper part, and many tubercular root scars on the lower part and nodes. Prepared as crosscutting pieces, margin of the pieces irregularly wavy, grey yellow. Annular wavy cambium, and brown oily spots scattered. Strongly aromatic in odour. Acrid and bitter in taste, warm in nature, and attributive to liver, gallbladder and pericardium channels.
    Indication:

  • Promote the circulation of blood and vital energy: for stagnation of blood and vital energy resulting in angina pectoris, headache, chest pain, abdominal pain, dysmenorrhea, amenia, difficult menstruation, dead fetus and retention of placenta, apoplexy, trauma, bone spur or thromboangiitis obliterans.
  • Expel wind and alleviate pain: For recurrent headache, dizziness, headache of wind-cold type and rheumatism. Also used for leukocytopenia

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    • Rhizoma Coptidis

    Rhizoma Coptidis

    Sources: The rhizome of Coptis chinensis Franch. Coptis deltoidea CyCheng et Hsiao or Coptis teeta Wall.
    Characteristics: The rhizome has branches and is shaped like a chicken claw. Leaves basal, with long stalks; leaf blade ovate-triangulate, 3-locate,the central lobes are prismatic, with deep feathers and serrated edges. 1~2 flower buds, terminal, cymose with 3~8 flowers. Bitter in taste, cold in nature and attributive to heart, liver, stomach and large intestine channel.
    Indication:

  • Clear away heat and dampness
  • Purging fire and detoxification.

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    Radix Salvia Miltiorrhiza

    Radix Salvia Miltiorrhiza

    Sources: The root and rhizome of Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge, a perennial herbal plant of the Labiatae family.
    Characteristics: Herbs perennial, 30 to 80 cm high. The roots are slender, cylindrical, and the skin is vermilion. Stems quadrangular, upper branches. Leaves opposite; singular pinnately compound leaves, 3 to 5 leaflets. The apical small leaves are larger than the lateral leaves, and the small leaves are oval. The umbels are axillary, abaxial, blue-purple, with the upper lip erect and the lower lip shorter than the upper lip. Nutlets oblong, dark brown or black when cooked. Flowering period from May to October, fruiting period from June to November. Bitter in taste, slightly cold in nature, and attributive to heart, pericardium and liver channel.
    Indication:

  • Promote blood circulation
  • Cool blood and eliminate phlegm
  • Soothe the nerves

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    Radix Polygala Tenuifolia

    Radix Polygala Tenuifolia

    Sources: The root of the perennial herb Polygala tenuifolia willd. or Polygala sibirica L..
    Characteristics: Bitter and acrid in taste, lukewarm in nature and attributive to heart, kidney and lung channel.
    Indication:

  • Tranquilize the mind
  • Expel Phlegm and resuscitation
  • Dissipate carbuncle and swollen

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    Rhizoma Atractylodeo Macrocephala

    Rhizoma Atractylodes Macrocephala

    Sources: Rhizome of perennial herb Atractylodes macrocephala Koidz, family Asteraceae
    Characteristics: Perennial plants, rhizomes hypertrophic into lumps; The lower leaves of the stem have long stalks, the leaves are deeply three-lobed or pinnately five-lobed, the apical lobes are larger, and the lobes are finely punctured at the edges; the upper leaves of the stalk are narrowly lanceolate and do not divide; In the autumn, purple tubular flowers are opened, and the heads are topped. Bitter and sweet in taste, warm in nature and attributive to spleen and stomach channels.
    Indication:

  • Invigorating qi and invigorate the spleen
  • Eliminating dampness and promote diuresis
  • Antiperspirant
  • Calms the fetus.

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    Radix Angelica Dahurica

    Radix Angelica Dahurica

    Source: Root of Angelica sinensis (Oliv.)Diels, family Umbelliferae.
    Characteristics：The axial root conical, with several fibrous roots, 15-25cm long, the root base 1.5-4.0 cm in diameter, brown in colour. Cork longitudinally and transversely lenticellate; the root body longitudinally wrinkled; the root base rounded flat, with lanceolate stem leaf remnant lying flat at its top. Prepared by crosscutting, the section showing a broad cortex with brown cortex with brown spotted oil cavities and an even xylem, cambium ring appearing between them. Soft in texture, delicately fragrant in smell. Sweet and acrid in taste, warm in nature, and attributive to liver, heart and spleen channels.
    Indication：

  • Enrich blood：For blood-deficiency syndrome, usually used together with Radix Astragali seu Hedysari (Decoction of Angelicae Sinensis for Enriching Blood), or with Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata and Radix Paeoniae Alba.
  • Promote blood circulation, regulate menstruation and alleviate pain: For blood-deficiency, blood stasis or blood-dryness manifested as menoxenia, amenorrhea, menorrhalgia: or as headache, chest pain, abdominal pain and rheumatism, usually used together with Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae, Resina Boswelliae Carterii and Myrrha; or as the early stage of skin infection or unhealed skin lesions, urticaria, eczema, prurigo, leukoderma, apoplexy, prolapse of rectum, bronchial asthma, arrhythmia, cor pulmonale, etc
  • Moisturize dryness and loose bowel: For constipation attributive to dryness of intestine and blood deficiency.

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    Radix Notoginseng

    Radix Notoginseng

    Sources: The dry root and rhizome of Panax notoginseng (Burk.) F.H. Chen of the Araliaceae plant.
    Characteristics: The main root is conical or cylindrical, 1 to 6 cm long and 1 to 4 cm in diameter. The surface is taupe or grayish yellow with intermittent longitudinal wrinkles and root marks. There are stem marks on the top and there are knobs around it. Weight, solid, section gray-green, yellow-green or gray-white, the wood is slightly radial. Slight odor, bitter and sweet in taste, warm in nature, and attributive to liver and stomach channels. The ribs are cylindrical or conical, 2 to 6 cm long, the upper end is about 0.8 cm in diameter, and the lower end is about 0.3 cm in diameter. The cut is irregularly wrinkled or strip-shaped, with several obvious stem and ring lines on the surface, the center of the section is grayish green or white, and the edges are dark green or gray.
    Indication:

  • Remove blood stasis and stop bleeding
  • Promote blood circulation and relieving pain.

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    • Nutmeg

    Nutmeg

    Sources: Mature seed of Myristica fragrans Houtt， family Myristicaceae.
    Characteristics: Small trees, up to 10 meters high. The branches are slender and slightly hairy. Petiole 6-12 mm, leaf ellipsoid, 4-8 cm long, subglabrous, base apical apex, ca. 6-10 pairs. Male inflorescences are short, about 2.5-5 cm, with 4 to 8 flowers (or more) forming a panicle. Tepals 3 (or 4) pieces, ca. 5-7 mm long. Stamens 9-12, basal connate. Female inflorescence consists of a single flower or multiple flowers. The flower of the female flower is 6 mm long. Ovary ellipsoid, densely rusted; style very short, stigma 2, tiny. 1-2 fruits, orange or yellow, pear-shaped or nearly round, 3.5-5 cm in diameter. Seed oval, 2-3 × ca. 2 cm. The aril is red and irregularly cracked. The cotyledons are short and curved. Acrid in taste, warm in nature, and attributive to spleen, stomach and large intestine channels.
    Indication:

  • Astringent to the intestine and relieve diarrhea
  • Warming middle energizer to promote qi

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    Cortex Eucommia Ulmoides Extract

    Cortex Eucommia Ulmoides Extract

    Sources: Bark of the deciduous tree Eucommia ulmoides Oliv, family Eucommiaceae.
    Characteristics: The leaves are deciduous, it can be up to 15 meters; the body contains hard rubber, the bark is broken and stretched to reveal filaments; the long oval leaves are alternate, without stipules, 8-16 cm long, the leaves are serrated; spring flowering, flower unisexual , without perianth, dioecious, male flowers clustered, composed of 10 stamens, female flowers solitary, stalked; long elliptic flat fruit is a single-winged fruit, 2-3 cm long, 1-2 cm wide, fruit June-November. Acrid in taste, warm in nature and attributive to liver and kidney channels.
    Indication:

  • Reinforcing liver and kidney
  • Strengthening tendons and bones
  • Clam the fetus

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    Ramulus Uncaria Macrophylla

    Ramulus Uncaria Macrophylla

    Sources: Hooked branch of the genus Uncaria or H. genus, and other several species of the same genus, family Rubiaceae.
    Characteristics: It is a dry hooked stem with a square column shape, about 2 cm in length, about 2 mm in diameter, reddish-brown or tan on the surface, and has a ring-shaped stem section at one end, slightly protruding, and has a contralateral section. Two hooks, shaped like an anchor, with the tip curled inward and also with a single hook. The hooks are of different sizes, the base is slightly round, and the diameter is 2 to 3 mm. The whole is smooth and slightly visible longitudinal. Light and firm, not easy to break, the outer layer of the section is brownish red, the pith is light yellow and loose like a sponge. No odor, light taste. It is better to have a double hook shape such as an anchor shape, thin stem, strong hook, smooth, reddish brown or purple brown. Sweet in taste, slighty cold in nature, and attributive to liver and ball pericardium channels.
    Indication:

  • Relieving convulsion and spasm
  • cleaning away heat and soothing the liver.

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    Sea Cucumber

    Sea Cucumber

    Sources: Echinoderms from the class Holothuroidea
    Characteristics: Sea cucumbers are typically 10 to 30 cm (4 to 12 in) in length, although the smallest known species are just 3 mm (0.12 in) long, and the largest can reach 3 meters (10 ft). The body ranges from almost spherical to worm-like, and lacks the arms found in many other echinoderms, such as starfish. The anterior end of the animal, containing the mouth, corresponds to the oral pole of other echinoderms (which, in most cases, is the underside), while the posterior end, containing the anus, corresponds to the aboral pole. Thus, compared with other echinoderms, sea cucumbers can be said to be lying on their side. Sweet and salty in taste, warm in nature, and attributive to kidney and lung channels.
    Indication:

  • Nourish the kidney and strengthen the essence

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    Honey

    Honey

    Sources: This product is honey from the honeybee insect Apis cerana Fabricius or Apis mellifera Linnaeus. Harvested from spring to autumn, filtered.
    Characteristics: This product is a translucent, shiny, thick liquid, white to light yellow or orange to yellowish brown. After a long time or cold, white granular crystals precipitate. Aroma, very sweet. Relative density If the product is crystallized, it can be placed in a water bath not exceeding 60 ° C. After all the crystals are melted, stir well and cool to 25 ° C. According to the Weiss's specific gravity method under the relative density determination method (Appendix VIIA) The relative density should be above 1.349. Sweet in taste, mild in nature, and attributive to lung, spleen, and large intestine channels.
    Indication:

  • Tonify qi of middle energizer and lung, relieve spasm and alleviate pain
  • Moisten lung to relieve cough
  • Moisten intestine to smooth stool.

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    Semen Quercus Infectoria

    Semen Quercus Infectoria

    Sources: The larvae of the insect bee stings parasitize on the young shoots of the genus Eucalyptus, family Gallopidae
    Characteristics: Parasitic animal, small body, about 6mm long. Black. There are 1 pair of compound eyes on the head; 3 single eyes. 1 pair of antennae, straight and slender, 2 pairs of wings, membranous, transparent; fore wing without margin, less wing veins, flat at rest. 3 pairs, developed. The abdomen is spherical and laterally flat; the female has a straight groove under the abdomen, and the ovipositor is in the middle. The larvae are shaped like a maggot and are extremely small. The gall wasp is parasitic on the gallnut tree, and the arbor tree (Quercusinfectoria Olivier) is subgenus. When the female lays eggs, the young shoots of the plant are first stabbed by the ovipositor, and the eggs are immediately laid in the wound. After hatching into larvae, the liquid containing the enzyme can be secreted, and the starch in the plant cells is rapidly converted into sugar. To stimulate the division of plant cells. When the starch granules in the cells surrounding the larvae disappear, the sputum shrinks and forms worms. After the larva grows, the perforation flies away. Bitter in taste, warm in nature, and in attributive to lung, spleen, and kidney channels.
    Indication:

  • Astringe the intestine to correct diarrhea
  • Controlling nocturnal emission with astringent drugs
  • Relieving cough
  • Stop bleeding
  • Promoting wound healing

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    Endoconcha Sepiella Maindroni

    Endoconcha Sepiella Maindroni

    Sources: The inner shell of Sepiella maindronide Rochebrune or Sepia esculenta Hoyle.
    Characteristics: Salty and astringent in taste, warm in nature, and attributive to liver and kidney channels. The inner shell of each squid is different so endoconcha sepiella maindroni made also different.

      Sepiella maindroni de Rochebrune: Flat long oval shape, thick in the middle and thin on the edge, 9~14cm long, 2.5~3.5cm wide, about 1.3cm thick. Back side has porcelain-white spine-like bulge, two sides appear slightly reddish, with unobvious small verrucous spots, abdomen is white with an intricate wavy transverse layered pattern, and a shallow longitudinally-oriented groove at the middle; horn-like edge, translucent, tail is relatively wide and flat, without bone needle. Light, loose texture, easily broken; fractured surface is powdery, appears in loose layers. Slightly fishy odor; slightly salty taste.
      Sepia esculenta Hoyle: 13~23cm long, about 6.5cm wide. Back side has obvious verrucous spots, slightly arranged in layers; abdomen has dense wavy horizontal layers taken most portion of body, shallow longitudinal groove in the middle; tail is horn-like, edge is gradually wide, rolls upward towards abdomen, with one bone needle at the end tip, often broken and fallen off.

    Indication:
  • Arresting spontaneous emission and leukorrhagia
  • Astringes to stop bleeding
  • Relieving gastric hyperacidity to alleviate stomachache
  • Eczema, incurable of sores and ulcers

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    Poria

    Poria

    Source: The sclerotium of Poria cocos(Schw.)Wolf, family Polyporaceae
    Characteristics: The sample appearing as irregular large masses with a dark brown cortex, varying in size; the surface of broken fragments granular, reddish in the outer portion and white in the middle. Prepared as rectangular or square pieces or slices which are white, fine and smooth. Cortex with dark brown outer surface and white to brownish inner surface. Soft and elastic in texture. Sweet and bland in taste, mild in nature, and attributive to spleen, heart, lung and urinary bladder channels.
    Indication:

  • Promote diuresis to eliminate dampness from the lower-jiao, invigorate the spleen and the middle-jiao: For dampness-retention syndrome with or without spleen-deficiency such as edema, dysuria, leucorrhagia, cough of phlegm-retention type, and dizziness, usually used together with Rhizoma Alismatis, Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae, Polyporus Umbellatus, and Ramulus Cinnamomi; for diarrhea of dampness type due to spleen-deficiency, used together with Atractylodis Macrocephalae, Semen Coicis, etc.; for jaundice due to the excess of dampness, used together with Herba Artemisiae Scopariae and Alismatis.
  • Tranquilize the mind: For deficiency of the heart and spleen of phlegm-retention manifested as palpitation and insomnia. In addition, single use is effective for chronic schizophrenia.

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    Radix Curcumae

    Radix Curcumae

    Source: The root tuber if Curcuma aromatica Salisb., C. kwangsiensis S.G. Lee et C.F. Liang, C. zedoria Rosc. family Zingiberaceae.
    Characteristics: Root tubers ambiform or long-elliptical, 1.5-3.5cm long. Surface light grey or yellow-white, finely wrinkled. Fractured surface grey-white or yellow-white, corneous, with a distinct ring of endodermis. Acrid and bitter in taste, cold in nature, and attributive to heart, liver and gallbladder channels.
    Indication:

  • Promote blood circulation to remove blood stasis, promote vital energy circulation and disperse the stagnated vital energy: For stagnation of blood and vital energy resulting in angina pectoris, trauma, dysmenorrhea, menoxenia, or hypochondriac mass. Recently, also used for hyperlipemia.
  • Promote the excretion of bile and reduce jaundice:For jaundice of dampness-heat type. Recently, used for jaundice caused by the diseases of liver and gallbladder.
  • Clear away heart-fire and eliminate phlegm: For phlegm-retention syndrome involving the heart orifices with frightening, epilepsy, depressive or manic psychosis, or dampness-warm disease complicated with coma, usually used together with Alumen (Bai Jin Pill).
  • Cool the blood and stop bleeding: For blood-heat or blood stasis syndrome with hematemesis, epistaxis or hematuria.

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    Herba Leonuri

    Herba Leonuri

    Source: The branch and leaf of Leonurus heterophyclus Sweet, family Labiatae
    Characteristics: Herb, 0.5-1.2 m high. Stem square, covered by lodging haris. Root leaves rounded, petioles long, margin undulate and lobed; stem leaves opposite, palmately triparted; leaves on the inflorescence striped, entire or sparsely serrated; noth surfaces of the blades covered by soft hairs. Flowers, if present, axillary and verticillate; corolla purple or white, labiate; persistent calyxes numerous, each containing 4 small nuts. Acrid and bitter in taste, slightly cold in nature, and attributive to heart, liver and urinary bladder channels.
    Indication:

  • Promote blood circulation to remove blood stasis, regulate menstruation and relieve metrorrhagia: For blood stasis syndrome with menoxenia, dysmenorrhea, metrorrhagia, postpartum lochiostasis, dystocia, retention of placenta or angina pectoris, trauma, etc.
  • Promote diuresis and relieve edema: For various kinds of nephritis with edema.
  • Clear away heat and toxic materials: For skin infection, conjunctivitis, and skin eruptions with pruritus.
  • Lower blood pressure: For hypentension.

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