Lobed Kudzuvine Root

Lobed Kudzuvine Root
Name
Lobed Kudzuvine Root
Latin Pharmaceutical Name
Puerariae Lobatae Radix
Chinese Name
葛根
Category
Roots and rhizomes

Lobed Kudzuvine RootMore Info

Production Regions
Primarily produced in the Chinese provinces of Henan, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Hunan.
Macroscopic Features
Longitudinally cut into long square-shaped thick pieces or small cubed chunks, 5~35cm long, 0.5~1cm thick. Outer skin is pale brown, with longitudinal wrinkles, rough. Cut surface is yellowish-white, with indistinct lines. Pliable texture, fibrous. faint odor; slightly sweet taste.
Quality Requirements
Superior medicinal material is white, large, firm, powdery, less fibrous.
Properties
Sweet, acrid; cool
Functions
Resolves exterior, abates heat, engenders fluid, outthrusts measles, raise yang, relieves diarrhea. Apply to fever and headache caused by exogenous pathogens, stiffness of the neck due to hypertension, hydrodipsia, diabetes, measles without adequate eruptions, dysentery of heat type, diarrhea.
Origin
The dried root of Pueraria lobata (Willd.) Ohwi (Fabaceae).

Lobed Kudzuvine RootHerbs in the formula

Pueraria, Scutellaria, and Coptis Decoction

Pueraria, Scutellaria, and Coptis Decoction

Action:Releases the exterior and clears the interior.
Indication:This formula is indicated for diarrhea with fever. The symptoms are diarrhea, fever, smelly, foul, thick, and sticky stool, burning sensation in the anus, panting with sweating, vexing heat in the chest and stomach cavities, thirst, dark urine, a red tongue body with a yellow coating, and a rapid pulse.
Chinese Angelica Pain-Alleviating Decoction

Chinese Angelica Pain-Alleviating Decoction

Action:Drains dampness and clears heat, scatters wind and relieves pain.
Indication:Dang Gui Nian Tong Tang is indicated for patterns that arise due to a conflict between dampness and heat with concurrent external wind contraction. The symptoms are aching pain of limbs and joints, heavy sensation of the shoulder and back, swelling and pain of the feet, sores on the feet and knees. The tongue coating is white and greasy mixed with yellow and the pulse is wiry and rapid.
Ginseng and Perilla Beverage

Ginseng and Perilla Beverage

Action:Boosts qi, releases the exterior, rectifies qi, and dissolves phlegm.
Indication:This formula is indicated for a pattern of qi deficiency with contraction of external wind-cold, complicated by interior phlegm-dampness. Signs and symptoms include aversion to cold, fever, absence of sweat, headache, stuffy nose, cough, white phlegm, distended and suppressed chest and abdomen, fatigue, lassitude, short of breath, dislike of speaking, a white tongue coating, and a weak pulse.
Bupleurum and Pueraria Muscle-Resolving Decoction

Bupleurum and Pueraria Muscle-Resolving Decoction

Action:Releases the flesh and clears heat.
Indication:Chai Ge Jie Ji Tang is indicated for externally contracted wind-cold that has become constrained and transforms into a heat pattern. The signs and symptoms include gradually reducing aversion to cold and increasing body heat, absence of sweat, headache, eye pain, dryness of the nose, vexation, insomnia, dry throat, impaired hearing, orbit pain, a thin yellow tongue coating, and a superficial, slightly surging pulse.
Cimicifuga and Pueraria Decoction

Cimicifuga and Pueraria Decoction

Action:Releases the flesh and promotes complete eruption of rashes.
Indication:This formula is indicated for the initial stage of measles. Signs and symptoms include rashes unable to break out, body heat, headache, cough, red eyes, tearing, thirst, a red tongue with a thin, dry tongue coating, and a superficial, rapid pulse.
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