The efficacy and function of Arisaema

After thousands of years of sedimentation and accumulation, the types and quantities of Chinese medicine have become quite astonishing. Therefore, choosing Chinese medicine to treat some difficult and complicated diseases always has a very good effect. Next, I will recommend a Chinese medicine, Gastrodia elata.

【English name】 ARISAEMA CUM BILE

[Source] This product is made by processing the fine powder of processed arisaema with cow, sheep or pig bile , or by fermenting the fine powder of raw arisaema with cow, sheep or pig bile.

【Properties】 This product is in the shape of a block or a cylinder. Brownish yellow, grayish brown or brownish black. Hard texture. It has a slightly fishy smell and a bitter taste.

【Identification】 (1) The powder of this product is light yellow-brown. The thin-walled cells are round and filled with gelatinized starch granules. The length of calcium oxalate needle crystal bundles is 20 to 90 μm. The diameter of the threaded and annular tubes is 8 to 60 μm.

[Preparation] Method 1): Grind Arisaema into powder, add appropriate amount of ox bile in a clay pot, mix into a paste (for every 200 jin of Arisaema, add the juice of 1,000 ox biles in 3 times), expose to the sun and dew at night until dry, then grind into powder, add bile and mix well into a paste. Repeat this process until all the bile is absorbed, the dish turns black and has no spicy taste.

【Nature and flavor】 Bitter, slightly spicy, cool.

[return through] return the lung, liver and spleen meridians.

【Functions and indications】 Clears away heat and resolves phlegm, calms wind and soothes convulsions. It is used for cough with phlegm and heat, yellow and thick sputum, stroke with phlegm, epilepsy and convulsions.

【Usage and Dosage】 3 to 6 g.

【Storage】Place in ventilated and dry place to prevent moth.

【Excerpt】 National Compendium of Chinese Herbal Medicines

Arisaema ciliata is a medicinal material that has existed for a long time. It is recorded in many Chinese medicine books, which shows that Arisaema ciliata does have good medicinal value.