Elsholtzia (Xiangru)
Pharmaceutical Name: Herba Elsholtziae
Botanical Name: Elsholtzia splendens Nakai ex F. Maekawa
Common Name: Elshotzia, Aromatic madder
Source of Earliest Record: Mingyi Bielu
Part Used & Method for Pharmaceutical
Preparations: The entire plant, when it is ripe, is gathered, dried in the
sunshine and cut into pieces.
Properties & Taste: Pungent and
slightly warm
Meridians: Lung and stomach.
Functions: 1. To promote diaphoresis
and release the exterior; 2. To resolve dampness and harmonize the spleen and
stomach; 3. To promote water metabolism and release edema.
Indications & Combinations:
1. Wind-cold exterior syndrome occurring in
the summer season manifested as chills, fever, headache, absence of sweating,
abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea. Elsholtzia (Xiangru) is used with
Hyacinth bean (Biandou).
2. Edema and dysuria. Elsholtzia
(Xiangru) is used with White atractylodes (Baizhu).
Dosage: 3-10 g.
Cautions & Contraindications: This
herb is contraindicated in deficiency exterior syndrome with sweating.
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