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Fragrant Solomonseal Rhizome

Fragrant Solomonseal Rhizome
Name
Fragrant Solomonseal Rhizome
Latin Pharmaceutical Name
Polygonati Odorati Rhizoma
Chinese Name
玉竹
Category
Roots and rhizomes

Fragrant Solomonseal RhizomeMore Info

Production Regions
Primarily produced in the Chinese provinces of Hunan, Henan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang.
Macroscopic Features
Long cylindrical, slightly flat, lack of branches, 4~18cm long, 0.3~1.6cm diameter. Externally yellowish-white or pale yellowish-brown, translucent, with longitudinal wrinkles and slightly bulging nodes, with white round spots of rootlet scar and disc-like stem scars. Hard and brittle or slightly soft texture, easily broken, fractured surface is horn-like or granular. faint odor, sweet taste, sticky when chewed.
Quality Requirements
Superior medicinal material is fat and strong, long, yellowish-white, smooth and glossy, translucent, sweet.
Properties
Sweet, neutral
Functions
Nourishes yin, moistens lung, nourishes stomach, engenders fluid. Apply to dry cough, strained cough, dry throat and thirst due to damage of yin and fluid caused by febrile disease, diabetes due to inner heat, and exterior disease due to yin deficiency, dizziness and vertigo, spasm pain of sinew.
Origin
The dried rhizome of Polygonatum odoratum (Mill.) Druce.(Liliaceae)

Fragrant Solomonseal RhizomeHerbs in the formula

Stomach-Boosting Decoction

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.
View DetailsDryness-moistening formulas
Solomon's Seal Variant Decoction

Solomon's Seal Variant Decoction

Action：Nourishes yin and releases the exterior.
Indication：Jia Jian Wei Rui Tang is indicated for the pattern of yin deficient with external contraction of wind-heat. The signs and symptoms are headache, fever, slight aversion to wind-cold, absence of or a little bit of sweat, cough, vexation, thirst, dry throat, a red tongue, and a rapid pulse.
View DetailsExterior-releasing formulas
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