Yuan Zhi - Thinleaf Milkwort Willd【Net Wt: 100g】
Yuan Zhi - Thinleaf Milkwort Willd【Net Wt: 100g】
NPN 80092288
【Macroscopic Features】
Cylindrical shape, slightly curved, 3~15cm long, 0.3~0.8cm diameter. Externally grayish-yellow to grayish-brown, with relatively dense and deep transverse wrinkles, longitudinal wrinkles and crack lines, old roots have relatively dense and deep transverse wrinkles, with a jointed appearance. Hard and brittle texture, easily broken, brownish-yellow cortex at fractured surface, and yellowish-white xylem, cortex is easily peeled off from xylem. faint odor, bitter, slight acrid taste, irritating to the throat when chewed.
【Properties】Bitter, acrid, slightly warm.
【Channels (meridians) entered】heart, kidney, and lung
【Functions】
Calms spirit, boosts mental faculties, dispels phlegm, disperses swelling. Apply to insomnia and dreaminess due to cardionephric disharmony, morbid forgetfulness and terror, absent-minded, uncomfortable expectoration, burns and scalds and swelling, mammary abscess and swelling pain.