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Oriental Waterplantain Tuber

Oriental Waterplantain Tuber
Name
Oriental Waterplantain Tuber
Latin Pharmaceutical Name
Alismatis Rhizoma
Chinese Name
泽泻
Category
Roots and rhizomes

Oriental Waterplantain TuberMore Info

Production Regions
Primarily produced in the Chinese provinces of Fujian, Sichuan.
Macroscopic Features
Tuberous rhizome is sub-spherical, oval or oval round shape, 2~7cm long, 2~6cm diameter. Externally yellowish-white or pale yellowish-brown, with irregular horizontal shallow ring grooves and numerous tiny raised rootlet scars, sometimes the base has verrucous sprout scars. Firm texture, yellowish-white fractured surface, powdery, with numerous thin holes. faint odor, slightly bitter taste.
Quality Requirements
Superior medicinal material is large, yellowish-white, smooth, with full and powdery texture.
Properties
Sweet, tasteless, cold.
Functions
Promotes urination, percolates dampness, drains heat, frees strangury. Apply to difficulty in urination, difficulty and pain while urinating induced by pyretic stranguria, edema and tumescence, diarrhea, dizziness induced by phlegm and retained fluid and emissions. Leaves: consumptive disease, cough, infrequent lactation, swellings and sores.
Technical Terms
'Ridged lines': This refers to transverse, irregular raised rings seen on the surface of the tuberous rhizome of ze xie, formed from the combination of jointed sections and thin, small raised rootlet scars.
Origin
The dried tuberous rhizome of Alisma orientalis (Sam.) Juzep.(Alismataceae)

Oriental Waterplantain TuberHerbs in the formula

Immature Bitter Orange Stagnation-Moving Pill

Immature Bitter Orange Stagnation-Moving Pill

Action:Promotes digestion, removes stagnation, clears heat, and removes dampness.
Indication:Food accumulation with damp-heat, marked by distending pain of the abdomen and stomach cavity, diarrhea, constipation, dark, scanty urine, a greasy yellow tongue coating, and a deep, forceful pulse.
Fluid-Replenishing Decoction

Fluid-Replenishing Decoction

Action:Warms the kidney and supplements essence, moistens the intestines to promote defecation.
Indication:This formula is indicated for deficiency of kidney yang, essence, and blood. The symptoms are dry stool, clear and profuse urine, soreness and weakness of lower back and knees, dizziness, a pale tongue with a white coating, and a deep, slow and weak pulse.
Gentian Liver-Draining Decoction

Gentian Liver-Draining Decoction

Action:Clears and drains excessive fire of the liver and gallbladder, and clears damp-heat in the liver channel.
Indication:1. Flaming up of excessive fire of the liver and gallbladder, which manifests as headache and red eyes, pain in the rib-side, bitter taste in the mouth, deafness, swelling of the ears, a red tongue with a yellow coating, and a forceful wiry, rapid pulse.
Polyporus Decoction

Polyporus Decoction

Action:Promotes urination, nourishes yin, and clears heat.
Indication:Zhu Ling Tang is indicated for patterns of binding water and heat. The symptoms are dysuria, fever, thirst with a desire to drink, vexation, insomnia, coughing, vomiting, nausea, and diarrhea. The tongue is red with a white or slightly yellow coating and the pulse is thready and rapid. It is also indicated for blood strangury marked by difficult, painful urination as well as pain and distension of the abdomen.
Flower of Kudzuvine Drunk-Relieving Decoction

Flower of Kudzuvine Drunk-Relieving Decoction

Action:Promotes urination and disperses to separate and remove the invisible alcohol-dampness pathogenic accumulation, regulates qi and fortifies the spleen.
Indication:This formula is indicated for spleen damage due to alcohol accumulation, marked by dizziness, vomiting, fullness and oppression of the chest and diaphragm, aversion to food, tiredness, dysuria, loose stool, a greasy tongue coating, and a slippery pulse.
Chinese Angelica Pain-Alleviating Decoction

Chinese Angelica Pain-Alleviating Decoction

Action:Drains dampness and clears heat, scatters wind and relieves pain.
Indication:Dang Gui Nian Tong Tang is indicated for patterns that arise due to a conflict between dampness and heat with concurrent external wind contraction. The symptoms are aching pain of limbs and joints, heavy sensation of the shoulder and back, swelling and pain of the feet, sores on the feet and knees. The tongue coating is white and greasy mixed with yellow and the pulse is wiry and rapid.
Kidney Qi Pill

Kidney Qi Pill

Action:Supplements the kidney and assists yang.
Indication:Shen Qi Wan is indicated for patterns of kidney yang deficiency manifesting lumbar pain, flaccidity of the lower limbs, cold sensation of the body below the waist, spasm of the lesser abdomen, dysuria or abnormally severe profuse urination at night, impotence, premature ejaculation, a pale, swollen tongue, and a deficient, weak pulse that is deep and thin at the chi position. It is also applicable for patterns of phlegm-retention, edema, xiao ke, beriberi, bladder colic, and dysuria during pregnancy, and so on.
Cinnamon and Poria Sweet Dew Beverage

Cinnamon and Poria Sweet Dew Beverage

Action:Clears summerheat, resolves heat, transforms qi, and drains dampness.
Indication:This formula is indicated for summerheat-dampness. The symptoms are fever with headache, vexation and thirst, inhibited urination, cholera, vomiting, and diarrhea.
Six-Ingredient Rehmannia Pill

Six-Ingredient Rehmannia Pill

Action:Supplements and nourishes the liver and kidney.
Indication:Liu Wei Di Huang Wan is indicated for liver-kidney yin deficiency. The symptoms are soreness of the waist and knees, dizziness, tinnitus, deafness, night sweat, seminal emission, xiao ke (wasting-thirst), steaming bone fever, feverish feeling in the palms and soles, a dry mouth and throat, loosening of the teeth, heel pain, dribbling of urine, and unclosed fontanel in children. The tongue is red with scanty coating and the pulse is deep, thready, and rapid.
Five Substances Powder with Poria

Five Substances Powder with Poria

Action:Promotes urination and percolates dampness, warms yang and promotes qi transformation.
Indication:Wu Ling San is indicated for water amassment syndrome due to dysfunction of bladder qi transformation. The symptoms are dysuria, headache with mild fever, thirst and desire to drink, vomiting as soon as drinking, throbbing below the navel, spitting, dizziness, shortness of breath, cough, edema, and diarrhea. The tongue coating is white and the pulse is either floating or floating and rapid.
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