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白茅根 Baimaogen
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Chinese Name |
白茅根 |
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Chinese Pinyin |
Baimaogen |
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English Name |
Lalang Grass Rhizome |
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Latin Pharmaceutical Name |
Imperatae Rhizoma |
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Category |
Roots and rhizomes |
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Origin |
The dried rhizome of Imperata cylindrical (Linn.) P. Beauv. (Gramineae). |
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Production Regions |
Primarily produced in northern Chinese provinces, including Henan, Liaoning, Hebei, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, and Xinjiang. |
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Macroscopic Features |
Rhizome is long cylindrical shape, or has branches, variable length, 30~60cm long, 2~4mm diameter. Externally yellowish-white or pale yellow, lustrous; presents longitudinal wrinkles and obvious circular joints, with grayish-brown bulb and small roots on the joints, internode is 1~3cm long. Light in substance, tenacious texture, fibrous fractured surface; yellowish-white, with radial cracks, or with one hole in the center. faint odor; taste slightly sweet. |
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Quality Requirements |
Superior medicinal material is thick, white and sweet. |
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Properties |
Sweet, cold. |
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Functions |
Cools the blood, stops bleeding, clears heat, promotes urination. Applied to pyreticosis and dipsesis, hematemesis, non-traumatic hemorrhage, dyspnea and coughing due to lung-heat, vomiting and hiccups caused by gastric heat, stramgutia, and difficulty in micturition, edema, and jaundice. |
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Chinese Medicine Specimen Database
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Permanent URL：https://sys01.lib.hkbu.edu.hk/cmed/mmid/detail.php?pid=B00024 |
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