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Medicinal Evodia Immature Fruit

Medicinal Evodia Immature Fruit
Name
Medicinal Evodia Immature Fruit
Latin Pharmaceutical Name
Euodiae Fructus
Chinese Name
吴茱萸
Category
Fruits and seeds

Medicinal Evodia Immature FruitMore Info

Production Regions
Primarily produced in the Chinese provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan.
Macroscopic Features
Pentagonal flat spherical, 2~5mm diameter. Externally dark yellowish-green to brown, rough, with spotted protrusions or indented oil ducts. Apex has pentagonal cracks; base has remnants of fruit stem with yellow hairs. Hard and brittle texture. Potent aromatic odor, acrid, spicy and bitter taste.
Quality Requirements
Superior medicinal material is green, small, full, with potent aromatic odor.
Properties
Acrid, bitter, hot, little toxic.
Functions
Disperses cold, stops pain, downbears counterflow, stops vomiting. Apply to deficiency cold of liver and stomach, headache or abdominal pain induced by inversed yin turbid.
Technical Terms
‘Seed eyes’: This refers to numerous raised dots or indented gland spots on the surface of wu zhu yu medicinal material; these are oil ducts.
Origin
The dried nearly mature fruit of Evodia rutaecarpa (Juss.) Benth.(Rutaceae)

Medicinal Evodia Immature FruitHerbs in the formula

Channel-Warming Decoction

Channel-Warming Decoction

Action:Warms the channels and dissipates cold, dispels stasis and nourishes blood.
Indication:Wen Jing Tang is indicated for deficiency-cold of the chong and ren mai, obstructive blood stasis marked by menstrual spotting or purple menses with blood clots. There may be irregular menstruation such as advanced, delayed, or prolonged periods, or having a period twice a month. There may also be inhibited menses, fever at night, vexatious heat in the palms, dry lips and mouth, distention and fullness of the lower abdomen, a dark red tongue, and a thready, choppy pulse. Infertility due to deficient cold of the uterus may also manifest.
Evodia Decoction

Evodia Decoction

Action:Warms the center and supplements deficiency, directs counterflow downward and arrests vomiting.
Indication:Wu Zhu Yu Tang is indicated for patterns of liver and stomach deficiency-cold with the upward reversal of turbid yin. The pattern is characterized by nausea after meals, acid regurgitation, belching, drooling of cold frothy saliva, fullness in the chest, stomach pain, vertex headache, aversion to cold, cold limbs with reversal counterflow cold of the four limbs, diarrhea, vexation and agitation, restlessness, a pale white tongue body and a white, slippery tongue coating, and a deep, wiry or slow pulse.
Left Metal Pill

Left Metal Pill

Action:Clears and drains liver fire, directs counterflow downward, and arrests vomiting.
Indication:This formula is indicated for liver fire invading the stomach, which causes burning pain in the rib-side, vomiting and bitter taste in the mouth, epigastric upset and acid swallowing, a red tongue with yellow coating, and a wiry, rapid pulse.
Four Spirits Pill

Four Spirits Pill

Action:Warms the spleen and kidney, consolidates the intestines and arrests diarrhea.
Indication:Si Shen Wan is used to treat kidney diarrhea due to yang deficiency of the spleen and kidney. Chief symptoms include fifth-watch (diarrhea at dawn) diarrhea, reluctance to eat or drink, poor digestion and absorption, chronic unremitting diarrhea, abdominal pain, lumbar pain, cold limbs, mental fatigue, and lack of strength. Usually, the tongue is pale with a white and thin coating. The pulse is deep, slow and weak.
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