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Obscuteed Homalomena Rhizome

Obscuteed Homalomena Rhizome
Name
Obscuteed Homalomena Rhizome
Latin Pharmaceutical Name
Homalomenae Rhizoma
Chinese Name
千年健
Category
Roots and rhizomes

Obscuteed Homalomena RhizomeMore Info

Production Regions
Primarily produced in the Chinese provinces of Yunnan, Guangxi.
Macroscopic Features
Cylindrical or slightly fat curved shape. 15~40cm long, 0.8~2cm diameter. Externally reddish-brown or yellowish-brown, rough, with numerous wrinkled longitudinal lines and yellowish-white fiber bundles. Brittle texture, easily broken, fractured surface is reddish-brown, with numerous exposed fiber bundles, scattered fiber bundles, with round lustrous oil spots. Fragrant odor, acrid, slightly bitter taste.
Quality Requirements
Superior medicinal material is large, firm, reddish-brown, with potent fragrance.
Properties
Bitter, acrid, warm
Functions
Dispels wind-damp, comforts sinew, invigorates channels, stops pain, eliminates swelling. Apply to wind-damp impediment, arthralgia, and flaccidity of extremities, traumatic injury, stomachache, abscess and sore swelling.
Technical Terms
'One wrapped needle’: This refers to the numerous yellow fiber bundles inside the medicinal material; when broken, the fiber bundles are numerous, obvious, and irregular, presenting like a needle.
Origin
The dried rhizome of Homalomena occulta (Lour.) Schott.(Araceae)
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