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Aquilaria sinensis (Lour.) Gilg
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Latin name |
Aquilaria sinensis (Lour.) Gilg |
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Family & Genus |
Thymelaeaceae, Aquilaria |
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Description |
Evergreen trees. Bark dark grey, with tough fiber. Single leaf alternate, leaves ovate, obovoid to elliptic, smooth and glabrous on both sides; petioles with hairs. Umbels borne on top of branches or axil; perianth yellow-green, campanulate; top of perianth tube 5 lobed, lobes oblong, pubescent. Capsules, obovoid, yellow-brown short pubescence, 2 part lobes upon maturation. Seeds 1-2, black-brown, ovate, base audate. Flowering: March to April; fruiting: June to March. |
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Distribution |
Growing on grounds, thin forests of hills and barren mountains. Distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi and Taiwan. The medicinal materials are produced in Guangdong and Hainan. |
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Part Used |
Medical part: timber that contains resin. Chinese name: Chenxiang. |
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Harvest & Processing |
Collected all over the year, cut the timber that contains resin, removed the part without resin and dried in shade. |
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Chemistry |
Mainly contains acetone, etc. |
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Pharmacology |
Analgesic, muscle-relaxing, sedative and asthma-checking. |
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Properties & Actions |
Pungent, bitter, warm, non-toxic.Downbearing qi flow, warming the middle, benefiting kidney, and replenishing qi. |
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Indications & Usage |
Inability to breathe due to adverse rising of qi, vomiting and hiccoughs, gastric and abdominal swelling pain, cold in waist and knee caused by deficiency, deficient constipation of large intestine, stranguria caused by disorder of vital energy, cold sperms.Internal: decocting, 2.5-5g; ground to extract juice or made as pills or powders. |
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Examples |
1. Treat painful mass of chest and diaphragm, cardiac and abdominal distention, dyspnea and shortness of breath, non-productive vomiting and dysphoric fullness, rushing upwards of beriberi: nutgrass galingale (parched, villi removed) 400 liang, aloeswood 18.5 liang, amomi xanthioidis semen 48 liang, ural licorice (baked) 120 liang. Grind the above drugs into fine powder. Take 1 qian with a little salt and boiling soup under fasting state.
2. Treat yin asthenia and nonrestoring kidney-QI: pestle juice from aloeswood; add tuber of dwarf lilyturf and prepared rhizome of rehmannia 3 qian each, tuckahoo, Chinese yam and evodia 2 qian each, suffruticosa peonypi, alisma orientale and guangdong orange peel 1 qian each. Decoct in water, and swallow with aloeswood juice.
3. Treat lingering deficiency of spleen and kidney, retention of fluid in the body, upthrust to lung meridian, cough and short breath, distension of abdomen, difficulty in urination: aloeswood 1 qian, tien-tai spicebush 3 qian, tuckahoo, orange peel, alisma orientale and nutgrass galingale seed 0.5 liang each, musk 0.5 qian. Grind them into fine powders, prepare honey pills as large as semen firmianae. Take 20-30 pills each time with boiled water. |
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