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shb0112 |
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Scientific Name:
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Rhizoma Alismatis |
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English Name:
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Oriental Water Plantain Rhizome |
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Chinese Name:
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Ôóк |
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Source:
This herb is the tuber of Alisma orientalis (Sam.) Juzep. (family Alismataceae) which is produced mainly in Fujian and Sichuan provinces. It is collected in winter, sliced, dried in sunlight, and stir-baked with wheat bran or with salt water.
Properties:
sweet and tasteless in flavour, cold in property, acting on the kidney and urinary bladder channels.
Effects:
inducing diuresis, excreting dampness and expelling pathogenic heat.
Indications:
Dysuria, edema, diarrhea, stranguria with turbid urine,leukorrhagia, phlegm retention, etc This herb is sweet and tasteless in flavour and has the effects ol excreting dampness. It has the effect of inducing diuresis similar to poria and can be used for various syndromes of water and dampness retention. This herb is cold in property and can expel heat in the kidney and urinary bladder, so it is very suitable for expelling heat in the lower-jiao. For dysuria and edema, it is often used with poria and umbellate .pore-fungus, as in Umbellate Pore-fungus Decoction Zhuling Tang). For vertigo due to phlegm retention, it is usually used with white atractylodes rhizome, known as Oriental Water Plantain Decoction (Zexie Tang).
Dosage and Administration:
5-10g, decocted in water for an oral dose. It may lead to spermatorrhea if used in large dosage.
Modern Researches:| Rhizoma Alismatis induces diuresis and promotes excretion of soduim ions by prevent renal tubules from reabsorption of sodium ions and discharging of potassium ions. | 
Alisol A(ÔóкÝÆ´¼) |
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