Swallowwort Root (bai wei)
Radix Cynanchi Atrati
Properties:
Bitter and salty in flavour, cold in nature, it acts on
the stomach and
liver channels. The bitter and cold properties clear away
heat and the salty flavour enters the blood division.
Its moist nature can nourish Yin. So the herb is able to
clear away heat, cool the blood, expell excessive heat
in the blood division, reinforce Yin, remove hectic
fever due to Yin deficiency as well. In clinical
practice, the latter functions are followed as the
principal therapeutic measure. In addition, it is also
used to treat stranguria due to heat or complicated by
hematuria, because it possesses diuretic action.
Effects:
Clearing away heat, cooling blood, detoxicating, treating
stranguria.
Indications:
1. For
heat invasion of ying and blood division, high fever and
delirium due to excessive heat in blood division, it is
often used in combination with the drugs for clearing
heat, removing heat from blood, detoxicating and
arresting convulsion, such as rhinoceros horn and
scrophularia root. In cases of heat due to
Yin-deficiency, hectic and tidal fever, it is used in
combination with the drugs for clearing heat of
deficiency type, such as anemarrhena rhizome, rehmannia
root and wolfberry bark.
2. For
swollen and sore throat, suppurative infections on body
surface caused by noxious heat, it is used in
combination with the heat-clearing and detoxicating
drugs, such as viola herb, forsythia fruit and
capejasmine fruit.
In
addition, it is also used for stranguria due to heat and
complicated by hematuria.
Dosage and Administration:
6-12g.
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For the
convenience of customers, we offer the
Swallowwort Root (bai wei) as
the quick-dissolving granule made through modern
technology.
Directions:
Every
sachet is equivalent to raw herb 10 grams.
The dosage is for
adults, one sachet each time, twice a day. Please put
the granule into a cup, then put 50-100ml boiling
water into the cup and stir it with spoon. You will
get some tea, drink it when it is luke-warm. For
children, the dosage should be reduced according to
the weight.
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Swallowwort Root (bai wei)
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