Deng Xin Cao - Common Rush Pith or Herba【Net Wt: 100g】

NPN 80095466

【Macroscopic Features】
Thin cylindrical, up to 90cm long, 1~3mm diameter; externally white or pale yellowish-white. Observed with magnification, one can see raised thin longitudinal wrinkles and sponge-like thin little holes, slightly lustrous. Light and soft texture, flexible, easily broken when pulled; fractured surface is not smooth, white. faint odor.

【Properties】Sweet, tasteless; slightly cold.

【Channels (meridians) entered】heart, lung, and small intestine

【Functions】
Disinhibiting diuresis and relieving strangury, clearing heart fire. Apply to strangury, edema, difficulty of urination, oliguria and pain, damp-heat jaundice, insomnia due to vexation, nocturnal fretfulness in infants, throat impediment, sore of mouth and tongue, trauma.