Yin Chai Hu - Lanceolate Dichotomous Starwort Root【Net Wt: 73.5g(2.94g x 25 Sachets)】

NPN 80095407

【Macroscopic Features】
Cylindrical, straight or curved, often without branches, commercial pieces consist of small sections, 2`9cm long, 3~8mm diameter. Externally grayish-yellow to yellowish-brown, lustrous, rough, with longitudinal wrinkles and horizontal rings, brown where the cortex has fallen off. Upper apex has remnants of leaf, densely covered with scales that are reddish-brown, or semi-round node scars. Root scars are spotty, numerous near the nodes. Hard and brittle texture, easily to break and powdery when broken. Fractured surface has 4~7 vascular bundle spots arranged in circle. faint odor, very durably bitter taste.

【Properties】Sweet, slightly cold.

【Channels (meridians) entered】Liver and Stomach.

【Functions】
Clears heat, cools blood. Apply to steaming bone, chronic malaria with yin deficiency, infantile malnutrition and emaciated.