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Dan shen - Dan - shen Root【Net Wt: 100g】

Dan shen - Dan - shen Root【Net Wt: 100g】

Regular price $43.29 CAD
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NPN 80095464

Dan Shen

Macroscopic Features
Mostly are roots with rhizomes, rhizomes are thick and short with remnants of stem base, lower portion with numerous thin and long roots. Roots are cylindrical and slightly curved; externally erythrine, rough, with numerous longitudinal grooves or wrinkles, with scars of rootlets. Outer cortex has fallen off scale-like, some with cracks; 8~22cm long, 5~12cm diameter, firm and brittle texture, easily broken; fractured surface is uneven, loose with cracks; cortexes brown or erythrine, narrow. Cambium is obvious pale brown; xylem vascular bundle is grayish-yellow or yellowish-white, radial arrangement. faint odor; slightly bitter and astringent.

Properties】Bitter, slightly cold.

【Channels (meridians) entered】heart and liver

【Functions】
Invigorates the blood, regulates menstruation, dispels stasis, relieves pain, cools blood, relieves ulcer, clears the heart, eliminates vexation, nourishing the blood and calming mental state. Apply to irregular menstrual period, amenorrhea and painful menstruation, abdominal mass and food accumulation, chest and abdominal sting, pyretic arthralgia and pain, anthracia and swelling pain, dysphoria and insomnia, live and spleen swelling, angina pectoris.

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