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Dried Ginger

Name

Dried Ginger

Latin Pharmaceutical Name

Zingiberis Rhizoma

Chinese Name

干姜

Category

Roots and rhizomes

Dried GingerMore Info

Production Regions

Primarily produced in the Chinese provinces of Sichuan, Guizhou.

Macroscopic Features

Rhizome are irregular lumps, slightly flat, with finger-like branches, 3~7cm long, 1~2cm thick. Externally grayish-brown or pale yellowish-brown, rough, with longitudinal wrinkles and obvious ring nodes. Often remains remnants of scale leaves on the branches, which has scars of stem or bud at the apex. firm texture; fractured surface is yellowish-white or grayish-white, powdery or granular, with one obvious ring (inner cortex) and vein spots (vascular bundles) and scattered yellow oil spots. Distinctively aromatic odor; acrid and spicy taste.

Quality Requirements

Superior medicinal material has firm texture, yellowish-white fractured surface, powdery, potent aroma.

Properties

Acrid, hot.

Functions

Warms the center, disperses cold, returns yang, frees the vessels, dries dampness, disperses phlegm, warms the lung, eliminates phlegm. Apply to abdominal cold pain, vomiting, diarrhea, yang exhaustion and acute thoracic pain, dyspnea with cough due to cold fluid-retention, Rheumatic arthralgia due to cold hygrosis.

Origin

The dried rhizomes of Zingiber officinale (Willd.) Rosc.(Zingiberaceae).

Dried GingerHerbs in the formula

Immature Bitter Orange and Glomus-Dispersing Pill

Action：Disperses and relieves fullness, fortifies the spleen and harmonizes the stomach.

Indication：Spleen deficiency and qi stagnation with cold and heat combined, characterized by fullness below the heart, no desire to eat or drink, tiredness, lack of strength, difficult defecation, greasy, slight yellow tongue coating, and a wiry pulse.

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Turtle Shell Decocted Pill

Action：Moves qi, invigorates blood, dispels dampness, dissolves phlegm, softens hardness, and disperses concretions.

Indication：Bie Jia Jian Wan is indicated for chronic malaria with masses below the costal region and abdominal masses. Long-lasting malaria causes masses to gather underneath the costal region. It is called chronic malaria with masses. Symptoms include: Masses underneath the costal region that stay firm when pushed, abdominal pain, weak muscles, decreased appetite, occasional cold or fever, and inhibited menses.

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Spleen-Strengthening Powder

Action：Warms yang and fortifies the spleen, moves qi, and promotes urination.

Indication：Shi Pi San is indicated for a pattern of yin edema caused by spleen-kidney yang deficiency and retention of water-dampness in the interior. The symptoms are swelling of the lower limbs, cold hands and feet, no thirst, fullness and distention of chest and abdomen, loose stool as well. The tongue coating is white and greasy and the pulse is deep, wiry and slow.

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Flower of Kudzuvine Drunk-Relieving Decoction

Action：Promotes urination and disperses to separate and remove the invisible alcohol-dampness pathogenic accumulation, regulates qi and fortifies the spleen.

Indication：This formula is indicated for spleen damage due to alcohol accumulation, marked by dizziness, vomiting, fullness and oppression of the chest and diaphragm, aversion to food, tiredness, dysuria, loose stool, a greasy tongue coating, and a slippery pulse.

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Spleen-Warming Decoction

Action：Expels cold accumulation through purgation, warms and supplements spleen yang.

Indication：Wen Pi Tang is indicated for cold accumulation due to yang deficiency. Symptoms are abdominal pain and constipation, unstoppable colic around umbilicus, cold hands and feet, a white tongue coating with no thirst, and a deep wiry, slow pulse.

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Harmonious Yang Decoction

Action：Warms yang and reinforces blood, disperses cold and unblocks stagnation.

Indication：This formula is indicated for yin carbuncles. For example, a deep-rooted abscess attached to the bone (suppurative osteomyelitis), sloughing deep-rooted abscess (digital gangrene), multiple abscesses, phlegm nodules, and arthroncus of the knee due to patterns of yin-cold. The affected area will have diffuse swelling without discoloration of the skin, aching pain without fever, lack of thirst, a pale tongue body with a white coating, and a deep, thin pulse or slow, thin pulse.

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Center-Regulating Pill

Action：Warms the center and dispels cold, boosts qi and supplements the spleen.

Indication：This formula is indicated for:

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Mume Pill

Action：Calms roundworms and relieves pain.

Indication：Wu Mei Wan is used for syncope due to roundworms. The symptoms include paroxysmal pain of the abdomen and stomach cavity, vexatious vomiting, vomiting after eating, vomiting roundworms, cold limbs, and chronic diarrhea or dysentery.

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Poria, Licorice Root, Schisandra, Dried Ginger, and Asarum Decoction

Action：Warms the lung and dissolves rheum.

Indication：Ling Gan Wu Wei Jiang Xin Tang is indicated for coughing caused by a pattern of cold fluid-retention marked by coughing with a large amount of thin white sputum, a preference to spit out saliva, drooling, and a stuffy chest. The tongue coating is white and glossy and the pulse is wiry and slippery.

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Officinal Magnolia Bark Center-Warming Decoction

Action：Moves qi to eliminate distention, warms the center and dries dampness.

Indication：This formula is indicated for the pattern of spleen-stomach qi stagnation caused by cold-damp. The symptoms are distention, fullness, pain in the stomach cavity and abdomen, no desire to eat or drink, lassitude of the four limbs. The tongue is white and greasy. The pulse is deep and wiry pulse.

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Yang-Returning Emergency Decoction

Action：Restores yang to rescue from desertion, boosts qi and engenders pulse.

Indication：This formula treats pathogenic cold directly attacking the three yin channels, causing yang weakness. This pattern is characterized by reversal cold of the limbs, debilitated spirit, desire to sleep, aversion to cold, lying curled up, vomiting and diarrhea, stomach pain, no thirst, shivering, greenish-purple nails and lips, frothy saliva, a pale white tongue body with a white tongue coating, and a deep, feeble or barely perceivable pulse.

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Engendering and Transforming Decoction

Action：Nourishes the blood and dissolves blood stasis, warms the channels and relieves pain.

Indication：Patterns of blood deficiency, congealed cold, and blood stasis marked by inhibited lochia after childbirth and cold pain in the lower abdomen.

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Frigid Extremities Decoction

Action：Restores yang to rescue from counterflow.

Indication：Reversal counterflow cold of the four limbs is due to heart and kidney yang deficiency. This pattern is marked by reversal counterflow cold of the four limbs, aversion to cold, lying in bed curled up, debilitated spirit, desire to sleep, pale complexion, stomach pain, diarrhea, vomiting, no thirst, a white, slippery tongue coating, and a feeble, thin pulse.

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Pinellia Heart-Draining Decoction

Action：Disperses pi and dissipates masses through the combination of cold and warm medicinals.

Indication：Pi is caused by the binding of cold and heat, marked by stuffiness below the heart, fullness without pain, vomiting, borborygmus, diarrhea, and a slightly yellow, greasy coating.

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Minor Green Dragon Decoction

Action：Releases the exterior, dissipates cold, warms the lung and dissolves rheum (fluid retention).

Indication：This formula is indicated for the pattern of exterior cold with interior fluid retention. The symptoms are aversion to cold, fever, absence of sweating, labored breathing, cough, copious clear and thin phlegm, stuffiness in chest, dry retching, difficulty in lying back in the supine position, general body aches, edema of the face and extremities. The tongue coating is white and glossy, and the pulse is superficial.

View Details Exterior-releasing formulas