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Common Lophatherum Herb

Latin Pharmaceutical Name

Lophatheri Herba

Chinese Name

淡竹叶

Category

Whole herbs

Common Lophatherum HerbMore Info

Production Regions

Primarily produced in the Chinese provinces of Jiangsu, Hunan, Hubei.

Macroscopic Features

Stem is cylindrical, 25~30cm long, 1.5~2mm diameter. Externally pale yellowish-green, joints have leaf sheaths; fractured surface has a hollow center. Leaves often wrinkled, lanceolate, 5~20cm long, 1~3.5cm wide; externally pale green or yellowish-green; parallel leaf veins with horizontal small veins, forming a long square lattice-like shape, which is obvious on lower surface. Leaf sheaths are about 5cm long, cracked open, with longitudinal lines on the exterior, and with white long soft hairs on the edge of leaf sheaths. Light, soft and pliable texture; faint odor; mild taste.

Quality Requirements

Superior medicinal material has large leaves, green, without roots and receptacles.

Properties

Sweet, tasteless; cold.

Functions

Clears heat and fire, eliminates vexation, stops thirsty, promotes urination, vents stranguria. Apply to pyreticosis and hydrodipsia and depression, hot feeling during urination, mouth and tongue ulcers.

Origin

The dried stem and leaves of Lophatherum gracile Brongn.(Poaceae).

Common Lophatherum HerbHerbs in the formula

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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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.

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Channel-Clearing Beverage

Action：Dispels summerheat and clears fire.

Indication：This formula is indicated for mild cases of summerheat with damage to the lung channel and qi level. The symptoms are moderate thirst, moderate dizziness, the feeling of moderate distention in the head, and a light red tongue body with a thin white coating.

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Summerheat-Clearing Qi-Boosting Decoction

Action：Clears summerheat, boosts qi, nourishes yin, and generates fluids.

Indication：This formula is indicated for patterns of summerheat with damage to both qi and fluids. The symptoms are fever with profuse sweating, thirst and vexation, scanty dark urine, fatigue and weak breathing, listlessness, and a deficient, rapid pulse.

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Lophatherum and Gypsum Decoction

Action：Clears heat and generates fluids, boosts qi and harmonizes the stomach.

Indication：Cold damage, warm disease, summerheat disease with residual heat, and damage of both qi and fluid. The signs include body fever, profuse sweating, chest distress and restlessness, nausea, dry mouth and polydipsia, low spirits and weak breathing, dry throat and lips, poor appetite, cough and choking, insomnia, a red tongue with little coating, and a weak and rapid pulse.

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Field Thistle Drink

Action：Cools blood and stanches bleeding, promotes urination and relieves strangury.

Indication：Blood strangury or bloody urine is due to the accumulation of heat in the lower jiao. This condition is marked by blood in the urine, and frequent painful urination that is hot with an unsmooth stream. The tongue is red and the pulse is rapid.

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Three Kernels Decoction

Action：Disperses and diffuses qi movement, clears and removes damp-heat.

Indication：San Ren Tang is indicated for the pattern of more dampness than heat in the early stage of damp-warmth and summerheat-warmth with dampness. The symptoms are headache, aversion to cold, heavy body, general pain, fatigue, a light yellow complexion, chest distress without hunger, afternoon fever, and no thirst. The tongue coating is white and the pulse is wiry, thin, and soggy.

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