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Coastal Glehnia Root

Latin Pharmaceutical Name

Glehniae Radix

Chinese Name

北沙参

Category

Roots and rhizomes

Coastal Glehnia RootMore Info

Production Regions

Primarily produced in Chinese provinces of Shandong, Jiangsu, Hebei, Liaoning.

Macroscopic Features

Long cylindrical, some with branches. Externally pale yellowish-white, some with remnants of outer skin; whole herb has thin longitudinal wrinkles and longitudinal grooves, with brownish-yellow thin root scar spots. Apex often had remnants of brownish-yellow rhizome base, top is relatively thin, middle is relatively thick, base is relatively thin. Brittle texture, easily to break; fractured surface has pale yellowish-white phloem and yellow xylem. Distinctive odor; slightly sweet taste.

Quality Requirements

Superior medicinal material is thin and long, cylindrical, consistent, and firm, with white outer skin.

Properties

Sweet, slightly bitter; slightly cold.

Functions

Nourishes yin, clears the lung, boosts the stomach, and engenders fluid. Apply to lung heat and dry-cough, pulmondeficiency due to long term cough with blood, hydrodipsia due to heat and fluid-damage.

Origin

The dried root of Glehnia littoralis Fr. Schmidt ex Miq. (Apiaceae).

Coastal Glehnia RootHerbs in the formula

Stomach-Boosting Decoction

Action：Nourishes yin and boosts the stomach.

Indication：Yi Wei Tang is indicated for stomach yin damage. The symptoms include a burning sensation and dull pain in the gastric cavity, hunger with no desire to eat, dry mouth and throat, and dry stool. The tongue is red with scanty coating, and the pulse is thready and rapid.

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Mulberry Leaf and Apricot Kernel Decoction

Action：Clears and diffuses warm-dryness, moistens the lung and dissolves phlegm.

Indication：Sang Xing Tang is indicated for the pattern of externally-contracted warm-dryness. The symptoms are mild fever, thirst, dry throat and nasal cavities, dry cough without sputum, or with scanty, and sticky sputum. The tongue body is red with a thin, white and dry coating. The pulse is floating and rapid and is large on the right side.

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Effective Integration Decoction

Action：Enriches yin and soothes the liver.

Indication：Yi Guan Jian is appropriate for patterns of liver-kidney yin deficiency with liver qi constraint characterized by pain in the chest, abdomen, and hypochondriac regions, acid regurgitation, bitter taste, dry mouth and throat, a dry, red tongue, and a thready, weak or weak, wiry pulse. This formula is also applied for shan qi (hernia).

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