Figwort Root

Figwort Root
Name
Figwort Root
Latin Pharmaceutical Name
Scrophulariae Radix
Chinese Name
玄参
Category
Roots and rhizomes

Figwort RootMore Info

Production Regions
Primarily produced in the Chinese provinces of Sichuan, Chongqing, Shaanxi, Hubei, Jiangxi.
Macroscopic Features
Sub-cylindrical, middle is slightly thick or thick at the top and thin at the bottom, sometimes slightly curved, 6~20cm long, 1~3cm diameter. Externally grayish-yellow or grayish-brown, with irregular longitudinal grooves, horizontal lenticels and loose horizontal cracks and rootlet scars. Firm texture, hard to break, black fractured surface is slightly lustrous. Distinctively caramel-like odor, sweet, slightly bitter, salty taste.
Quality Requirements
Superior medicinal material is thick and strong, firm, with black fractured surface.
Properties
Sweet, bitter, salty, slightly cold.
Functions
Clears heat, cools blood, drains fire, resolves toxin, nourishes yin. Apply to damp evil entering construction and the pericardium, warm toxin inducing eruptions, heat disease damaging yin, dark red tongue and vexation, damage of fluid and constipation, bone steaming and over-strained cough, red eye, throat pain, scrofula, diphtheritic, swelling abscess and sore toxin.
Origin
The dried root of Scrophularia ningpoensis Hensl.(Scrophulariaceae)

Figwort RootHerbs in the formula

Liver-Sedating and Wind-Extinguishing Decoction

Liver-Sedating and Wind-Extinguishing Decoction

Action:Tranquilizes the liver and extinguishes wind, enriches yin and subdues yang.
Indication:Zhen Gan Xi Feng Tang is indicated for the pattern of apoplectic stroke. The symptoms are dizziness, vertigo, distension of eyes, tinnitus, headache with a warm sensation in the head, flushed face, and irritability; there may also be frequent belching, progressive difficulty in moving the extremities, and deviation of the mouth and eyes. In severe cases there is dizziness and falling down, unconsciousness, mental confusion with moments of clarity, and an inability to fully recover after loss of consciousness, and a wiry, long, and forceful pulse.
Yin-Nourishing and Lung-Clearing Decoction

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.
Humor-Increasing Decoction

Humor-Increasing Decoction

Action:Increases body fluids to moisten dryness.
Indication:Zeng Ye Tang is indicated for yangming warm-febrile disease with fluid inadequacy and constipation. The symptoms are constipation and thirst. The tongue is red and dry, and the pulse is thin and rapid or deep and forceless.
Purple Snow Elixir

Purple Snow Elixir

Action:Clears heat and opens the orifices, extinguishes wind and arrests convulsion.
Indication:Zi Xue Dan is indicated for heat invading the pericardium and excessive heat generating wind. The symptoms are high fever, vexation and agitation, unconsciousness and delirium, convulsion, syncope, thirst, drinking a lot, scorched lips, dry tooth, dark urine, and constipation. The tongue is crimson with a dry, yellow coating, and a wiry, forceful pulse. Zi Xue Dan is also indicated for infantile convulsion due to excessive heat.
Universal Relief Toxin-Removing Beverage

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.
Ying Level Heat-Clearing Decoction

Ying Level Heat-Clearing Decoction

Action:Clears heat from the ying level, resolves toxins, vents heat from the ying level, and nourishes yin.
Indication:This formula is indicated for the heat in the ying level. The symptoms are fever aggravated at night, vexation and sleeplessness, occasional delirious speech, thirst or not, inconspicuous macules and papules, crimson colored, dry tongue, and a thready, rapid pulse.
Lily Bulb Metal-Securing Decoction

Lily Bulb Metal-Securing Decoction

Action:Enriches and nourishes the lung and kidney, relieves cough and dissolves phlegm.
Indication:Bai He Gu Jin Tang is indicated for a pattern of lung-kidney yin deficiency with deficiency fire flaming upward. The symptoms are coughing, labored breathing, blood in the sputum, dry and sore throat, dizziness and blurred vision, afternoon tidal fever. The tongue is red with scanty coating, and the pulse is thready and rapid.
Celestial Emperor Heart-Supplementing Elixir

Celestial Emperor Heart-Supplementing Elixir

Action:Enriches yin and clears heat, nourishes blood and calms the mind.
Indication:Deficiency of yin and insufficiency of blood have lead to the disturbance of the mind. Symptoms include palpitations, vexation, insomnia, mental fatigue, forgetfulness, nocturnal emission, feverish feeling in palms and soles, aphtha, a sore mouth and tongue, and dry stool. The tongue is red with scanty coating, and the pulse is thin and rapid.
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