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Wild Mint Herb

Name

Wild Mint Herb

Latin Pharmaceutical Name

Menthae Haplocalycis Herba

Chinese Name

薄荷

Category

Whole herbs

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Production Regions

Primarily produced in Chinese provinces of Anhui, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Sichuan.

Macroscopic Features

Stems are squared columns, with opposing branches, 15~40cm long, 0.2~0.4cm diameter; externally purple brown or pale green, edges have hairs. Internodes are 2~5cm long. Brittle texture, fractured surface is white, with a hollow center at the pith. Opposing leaves with short stems, wrinkled and curved, wide lanceolate, long elliptical or oval shape after being flattened, 2~7cm long, 1~3cm wide; lower surface is grayish-green while upper surface is dark green, with few hairs with concave pointy glands. Verticillasters grow at the axils, bell-like calyx, with 5 breaches at the apex, corolla is pale purple. After being rubbed, it has a distinctive clear and cool aroma. Taste acrid and cool.

Quality Requirements

Superior medicinal material is dark green, leafy, potent aroma odor.

Properties

Acrid; cool.

Functions

Disperses wind-heat clears the head and eyes, benefits the throat, vents rashes, courses the liver and resolves constraint. Apply to wind-heat cold, headache, throat pain, mouth and tongue sore, rubella, measles, chest and abdominal constraint, anti-early pregnancy. Disperses inflammation and stops pain.

Origin

The dried aerial portion of Mentha haplocalyx Briq.(Lamiaceae).

Wild Mint HerbHerbs in the formula

Yin-Nourishing and Lung-Clearing Decoction

Action：Nourishes yin and clears lung heat, resolves toxins and improves the condition of the throat.

Indication：Yang Yin Qing Fei Tang is indicated for diphtheria due to yin deficiency and dryness-heat. The symptoms include white, curd-like spots in the throat that are hard to scrape off, a swollen and sore throat, with or without fever at the beginning of the disease, dry nose and lips, with or without coughing, raspy breathing resembling wheezing, a rapid, forceless or thin, rapid pulse.

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Lonicera and Forsythia Powder

Action：Vents the exterior with acrid-cool, clears heat, and resolves toxin.

Indication：Yin Qiao San is indicated for the early stage of a warm disease. The symptoms are fever, slight aversion to cold, absent or inhibited sweating, headache, thirst, cough, and sore throat. The tip of the tongue is red with a thin, yellow coating, and the pulse is superficial and rapid.

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Universal Relief Toxin-Removing Beverage

Action：Clears heat, resolves toxins, scatters wind, and disperses swelling.

Indication：This formula is indicated for swollen-head infection (also referred to as massive head scourge). The symptoms are redness, swelling, and pain in the head and face, failure to open the eyes, red, swollen, and sore throat, aversion to cold with fever, thirst, a red tongue with a yellow coating, and a forceful rapid pulse.

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Diaphragm-Cooling Powder

Action：Drains fire, promotes defecation, clears heat from the upper, and discharges heat through the purgative method.

Indication：This formula is indicated for the heat that has been generated from the constraint of pathogens in the upper jiao and middle jiao. The symptoms are vexing heat in the chest and diaphragm, red complexion, parched lips, vexation and agitation, thirst, mouth and tongue sores, restless sleep, delirium, pharyngeal pain, spitting of blood, nosebleed, constipation, dark urine, and incomplete defecation. The tongue is red with a yellow coating, and the pulse is slippery and rapid.

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Mulberry Leaf and Chrysanthemum Beverage

Action：Dissipates wind and clears heat, ventilates the lung, and stops coughing.

Indication：Sang Ju Yin is indicated for the initial stage of a wind-warmth pattern. Coughing is the major symptom along with a low-grade fever, slight thirst, and a superficial rapid pulse.

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Sweet Dew Toxin-Removing Elixir

Action：Drains dampness and removes turbidity, clears heat and resolves toxins.

Indication：Gan Lu Xiao Du Dan is indicated for damp-warmth and seasonal epidemic. It is a pattern with equal dampness and heat pathogens in the qi level. The symptoms are fever and fatigue, chest distress and abdominal distension, aching pain of limbs, throat pain, yellow skin and eyes, maxillofacial swelling, thirst, scanty and dark urine, diarrhea, and turbid strangury. The tongue coating may be either white, thick and greasy or yellow and dry. The pulse is either soggy and rapid or slippery and rapid.

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Tea-Mix and Chuanxiong Powder

Action：Scatters wind and relieves pain.

Indication：Chuan Xiong Cha Tiao San is indicated for headaches caused by externally-contracted wind. The symptoms are headache in any part of the head, dizzy vision, and nasal congestion possibly accompanied by aversion to wind and fever. The tongue coating is thin and white, and the pulse is floating.

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