Zhi Mu - Common Anemarrhena【Net Wt: 100g】

NPN 80092277

【Macroscopic Features】 Long strip-like, slightly curved, slightly flat, occasionally has branches, 3~15cm long, 0.8~1.5cm diameter, one end has pale yellow remnants of stem and leaf. Externally yellowish-brown to brown, upper side has one indented groove, densely arranged ring nodes, with dense remnants of yellowish-brown remnants of leaf base on nodes, growing upward from two sides of rhizome; lower side is bulging and slightly wrinkled, with indented or raised spotted root scars. Hard texture, easily broken, yellowish-white fractured surface. faint odor, slightly sweet, slightly bitter taste, sticky when chewed.

【Properties】 Bitter, sweet, cold.

【Channels (meridians) entered】Stomach, Large Intestine, Lung

【Functions】
Removing rheumatism, activate blood, clearing pus, engendering skin, relieving pain. Apply to headache, toothache, persistent turbid nasal discharge, anal fistula due to intestine wind, red and white leucorrhea, ulcer and sore, skin itch.