Medicinal Changium

Primarily produced in the Chinese provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui.

Thin and long cylindrical, long fusiform or irregular strips, 6~20cm long, 0.5~2cm diameter. Externally yellowish-white or pale brown, smooth or with longitudinal grooves and rootlet scars, sometimes with reddish-brown spots. Hard and brittle texture, fractured surface is horn-like, xylem is yellowish-white, cortex is relatively thin, and easily peeled off from xylem, off-white xylem. faint odor, tasteless.

Superior medicinal material is even, hard and brittle, heavy, yellowish-white.

Sweet, slightly bitter, slightly cold.

Moistens lung, resolves phlegm, nourishes yin, harmonizes stomach, calms liver, resolves toxin. Apply to cough due to lung heat, gastrofrigid vomiting, anorexia and dry mouth, conjunctival congestion and vertigo, furunculosis and pathopyretic ulcer.