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鶴虱 Heshi
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Chinese Name |
鶴虱 |
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Chinese Pinyin |
Heshi |
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English Name |
Common Carpesium Fruit |
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Latin Pharmaceutical Name |
Carpesii Fructus |
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Category |
Fruits and seeds |
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Origin |
The dried mature fruit of Carpesium abrotanoides L.(Asteraceae) |
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Production Regions |
Primarily produced in the Chinese provinces of Shaanxi, Gansu, Shanxi, Henan. |
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Macroscopic Features |
Cylindrical, tiny, 3~4mm long, less than 1mm diameter. Externally yellowish-brown to dark brown, with numerous longitudinal ridges. One end wrinkled like thin beak-shaped leaf, tip expands to grayish-white ring; another end is slightly pointy, with scars. Fruit skin is thin, fibrous; seed coat is very thin and transparent, with 2 cotyledons, off-white, oily. Distinctive odor; slightly bitter taste. |
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Quality Requirements |
Superior medicinal material has even and full body, granular feeling when chewed, lustrous externally. |
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Properties |
Bitter, acrid; Neutral; slightly toxic. |
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Functions |
Kills worms, clears heat, resolves toxin, promotes spleen, harmonizes stomach. Apply to stomach pain due to worm accumulation, trichomonas vaginalis. |
| Link |
 Medicinal Plant Images Database
Chinese Medicine Specimen Database
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Permanent URL：https://sys01.lib.hkbu.edu.hk/cmed/mmid/detail.php?pid=B00179 |
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