[Variety Source]

It is a finished product made by placing the powdered Liquorice Root in a bamboo tube and soaking it in a human cesspit for a certain period of time. It is cylindrical in shape and brown in appearance. The cross-sections are dark yellow and rough. Liquorice Root fibers can be seen criss-crossing together. The texture is dense and slightly hard, and the surface is easy to peel off. Has a special smell.

[Property]

sweet; salty; cold. act on heart channel; act on stomach channel.

1. Bencao Beiyao: "sweet, cold, act on stomach channel."
2. "Yugui Medicine Solution": "act on hand shaoyin channel, act on heart channel, act on foot shaoyang gallbladder channel."
3. Bencao Huiyan: "bitter and slightly sweet, extremely cold, nontoxic."
4. Benjing Fengyuan: "sweet and salty, cold."
5. Bencao Qiuzhen: "Specializes in intestinal act on stomach channel, sweet, cold."
6. Bencao Fahui: "cool."
7. Bencao Mengquan: "Cold."

[Efficacy]

Clear away heat, cool blood, remove toxin

[Indications]

Indications: Tianxing Rebing, warm disease, spots, severe fever and polydipsia, smallpox, blood heat, erysipelas, sore and ulcer.

1. Used for Rebing, high fever, polydipsia, spots and vomiting. licorice products clearing heat and cooling blood, treating warm febrile disease, high fever and polydipsia. This product can be taken alone and mixed with sugar and boiled water, or combined with Gypsum, Coptis Rhizome, etc. Take the medicine together with decoction to enhance the effect of clearing heat and purging fire;
2. To treat heat toxin spots and dysphoria constipation, it can be used with Rhinoceros Horn and Unprocessed Rehmannia Root, paeonol bark and other heat-clearing and blood-cooling medicinals are combined;
3. If you want to treat hematemesis and upset patients with blood heat, you can use a combination of medicinals India Madder Root Roots and other hemostatic medicinal to enhance hemostatic effect.
4. In addition, licorice products have clearing heat and removing toxin effects and are often used together with clearing heat and purging fire removing toxin medicines such as Lonicera to treat surgical diseases such as sore and ulcer, erysipelas, etc.

[Usage and Dosage]

Oral administration: decoct in soup (cloth bag) 6 to 10 grams; or take into pills or powder.

[Precaution]

It is forbidden to use non-thermal Rebing. Bencao Jingshu: "Disease caused by cold pestilence should not be used by people with non-yangming and excessive heat; smallpox should not be used by people with non-fire heat stagnation and purple-black dry inward invasion."

[Processing and Storage]

Select thick Dyers Woad bamboo and cut it into sections, making it into a bamboo tube with one end blocked, and scrape off the outer layer of green tangerine peel. In addition, put the Liquorice Root powder into the bamboo tube and pestle until it is about 0.3 cm away from the mouth of the tube. Spread it with Bamboo Shavings silk, plug it tightly with a cork, then melt it with rosin and seal it. Hang it in a manure pit and soak it for 49 days, then take it out (generally It is mostly used for soaking in winter and taken out in the following spring), rinsed in long water from the river for 49 days, picked up, and left to dry in the sun and night for 7 days.

"Shiming" stuffs the end of Liquorice Root into a bamboo tube, seals both ends with bamboo and wood, puts it into a human excrement tank in winter, takes it out at the Beginning of Spring (1st solar term), and hangs it in a windy place to dry in the shade. Break the bamboo and take the powder of Liquorice Root and dry it in the sun.

[Selection of Prescriptions]

1. Biwen: No matter how many licorice products there are, rice is a pill, Mung Bean is a big one, and there are fifteen pills. (Songfeng Shuoyi licorice products pills)
2. To treat severe fever and thirst: mix licorice products with sugar and boiled water and take it. (Sichuan Chinese Materia Medica)
3. To treat pestilence heat: licorice products. Coptis Rhizome. Gypsum is decoction and taken. (Sichuan Chinese Materia Medica)
4. To treat hematemesis, spitting, upset, steaming bone fever: take licorice products as powder, take three qian each time, mix madder root juice, Bomboo Juice, ginger juice and take it evenly. (Danxi Xinfa)
5. Treatment of erysipelas: licorice products 6g, Lonicera 4.5g, paeonol 4.5g, raw gardenia 6g. Decocted with water, take three times a day. ("Modern and Practical Chinese materia medica")
6. Cure puffer fish, bacterial poisons and all malignant sores: licorice products, wine Rhubarb Rhizoma in equal parts. At the end of the period, if you drink ash-free wine, it will cause diarrhea in a moment, and the poison will come out immediately. Even if you are very thirsty, you cannot drink water. (Benjing Fengyuan)