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地骨皮 Digupi
Chinese Name |
地骨皮 |
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Chinese Pinyin |
Digupi |
English Name |
Chinese Wolfberry Root - bark |
Latin Pharmaceutical Name |
Lycii Cortex |
Category |
Tree barks and root barks
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Origin |
The dried root bark of Lycium chinense Mill, or Lycium barbarum L.(Solanaceae). |
Production Regions |
Primarily produced in the Chinese provinces of Ningxia, Gansu, Henan, Hebei. |
Macroscopic Features |
Root bark is short and small tube-shaped or grooved, uneven size, often 3~10cm long, 0.6~1.5cm wide, about 3mm thick. Externally grayish-yellow or brownish-yellow, rough, with crossed longitudinal cracks, outer surface easily flakes off. Inner surface is yellowish-white, relatively smooth with thin longitudinal lines. Light and brittle texture, easily broken; fractured surface is not smooth; outer layer is brownish-yellow, inner layer is grayish white. faint odor; slightly sweet taste. |
Quality Requirements |
Superior medicinal material is large, thick, without woody core or foreign matter. |
Properties |
Sweet; cold. |
Functions |
Cools blood, eliminates steaming, clear the lung, downbears fire. Apply to yin deficiency and hectic fever, hectic fever and night sweat, dyspnea and coughing due to lung-heat, hematemesis, and non-traumatic hemorrhage. |
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Permanent URL:https://sys01.lib.hkbu.edu.hk/cmed/mmid/detail.php?pid=B00343
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