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Gentiana crassicaulis Duthie ex Burk.
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English Name |
Thickstemen Gentian, |
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Latin name |
Gentiana crassicaulis Duthie ex Burk. |
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Family & Genus |
Gentianaceae, Gentiana |
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Description |
Perennial herb, plant 20-35cm tall, upright or flat, taproot thick and strong, round, or a few bifurcate, slightly twisted, yellow or yellowish brown. Stem round, with nodes, smooth and hairless. After basal leaf decays, filamentous fibrous remains as the base. Lamina lanceolate, radical leaf comparatively big, stem leaf comparatively small, leaf base combined with sheath, lamina smooth and hairless, leaf vein 5 divided. Flower located on stem apex or whorl like fasciculate between leaf axils, forming capitate cyme, tip of corolla 5 lobed, light yellowish green. Capsule long circular. Seed thin and small, elliptic, brown, glossy. Flowering: July to August. Fruiting: September to October. |
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Distribution |
Growing on grasslands or humid slopes. Mainly distributed in Gansu, Sichuan, Tibet, Qinghai, Inner Mongolia and etc. The medicinal materials are mainly produced in Sichuan, Yunnan, Tibet and etc. |
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Part Used |
Medical part: roots. Chinese name: Qinjiao. |
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Harvest & Processing |
Excavated in spring and autumn, removed cauline leaf and fibrous root and soil, sundried, or heap up and sun-dried until the color become reddish yellow or daffodil yellow, spread out and sundried. |
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Chemistry |
Mainly contains alkaloids. |
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Pharmacology |
Anti-inflammatory and cardiovascular-system and blood-sugar affecting. |
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Properties & Actions |
Bitter, pungent, neutral, non-toxic.Removing wind and damp, activating blood, relaxing muscle, clearing heat and inducing urination. |
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Indications & Usage |
Rheumatic arthralgia, contracture of bones and muscles, jaundice, hemafecia, osteopyrexia, infantile malnutrition with fever, difficulty in micturition.Oral administration: decocting, 7.5-15g; made as medicinal liquor, or made as pills or powders. External application: powdered and scattered. |
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Examples |
1. Treat wind invaded into yangming channel of hands and feet, deviation of the eye and mouth, aversion to wind and cold, contracture of four limbs: skunk bugbane, kudzu root, ural licorice (stir fried), peony, ginseng 0.5 liang each, gentian, angelica dahurica, divaricate saposhnikovia root, ramulus cinnamomi 3 qian each. Cut the above drugs into thin pieces. Take 1 liang for each dose and put into 2 cups of water, onion stalk with fibrous roots 3, 2 cun long, decoct until reduced to one cup, remove residues after slightly warmed, and swallow after meals. After swallowing the decoction, avoid wind coldness and lie down, the disease will be cured after mild perspiration.
2. Treat back pain radiated to chest: gentian 1.5 qian, rhizoma gastrodiae, incised notopterygium rhizome, orange peel, angelica, szechwan lovage rhizome ligusticum 1 qian each, stirred ural licorice 5 fen, fresh ginger 3 pieces, mulbrry twig 3 qian (stir-fried in liquor). Decoct in water and swallow.
3. Treat pain due to wind in meridians: notopterygium 1.5 qian, angelica 2 qian, szechwan lovage rhizome ligusticum 1 qian, prepared rhizome of rehmannia 3 qian, gentian, white peony root (stir-fried in liquor), heraclei radix 1.5 qian each. |
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