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千年健 Qiannianjian
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Chinese Name |
千年健 |
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Chinese Pinyin |
Qiannianjian |
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English Name |
Obscuteed Homalomena Rhizome |
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Latin Pharmaceutical Name |
Homalomenae Rhizoma |
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Category |
Roots and rhizomes |
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Origin |
The dried rhizome of Homalomena occulta (Lour.) Schott.(Araceae) |
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Production Regions |
Primarily produced in the Chinese provinces of Yunnan, Guangxi. |
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Macroscopic Features |
Cylindrical or slightly fat curved shape. 15~40cm long, 0.8~2cm diameter. Externally reddish-brown or yellowish-brown, rough, with numerous wrinkled longitudinal lines and yellowish-white fiber bundles. Brittle texture, easily broken, fractured surface is reddish-brown, with numerous exposed fiber bundles, scattered fiber bundles, with round lustrous oil spots. Fragrant odor, acrid, slightly bitter taste. |
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Quality Requirements |
Superior medicinal material is large, firm, reddish-brown, with potent fragrance. |
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Properties |
Bitter, acrid, warm |
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Functions |
Dispels wind-damp, comforts sinew, invigorates channels, stops pain, eliminates swelling. Apply to wind-damp impediment, arthralgia, and flaccidity of extremities, traumatic injury, stomachache, abscess and sore swelling. |
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Technical Terms |
'One wrapped needle’: This refers to the numerous yellow fiber bundles inside the medicinal material; when broken, the fiber bundles are numerous, obvious, and irregular, presenting like a needle. |
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 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=B00094 |
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