This product is the rhizome of Neopicrorhiza (Neopicrorhiza scrophulariiflora (Pennell) D.Y.Hong), a perennial herbaceous plant of the Scrophularia Root family. It is native to the eastern Himalayas and Hengduan Mountains and is distributed in Nepal, Bhutan, China and other places; in China it is distributed in Tibet, Yunnan, Sichuan and other places. It mostly grows in alpine grasslands and rock piles in alpine areas with an altitude of 3600 to 4400 meters.

Neopicrorhiza was first recorded in Xinxiu Bencao, "Neopicrorhiza came out of Persia (today's Iran) and grew in sea fields and half land. It was picked in early August. The seedlings are like Prunella and the roots are like beaks. , the broken flesh is like a crane's eye." Su Song: "When it is born, it is like a reed, and when it is dry, it is like a willow branch. The heart is black and the outside is yellow. It is harvested at any time." Chen Cheng: "If the broken dust comes out like smoke, it is true." According to its properties and origin, it is the same as Neopicrorhiza used today.

bitter cold, act on heart, liver, stomach and large intestine channels.

• Tang Bencao: "extremely cold."
• Kaibao Bencao: "bitter, neutral, nontoxic."
• Leigong Paozhi Yaoxing Jie: "Act on liver, gallbladder and stomach channels."
• Bencao Huiyan: "Act on foot taiyin, foot yangming and jueyin channels."

[Efficacy]

Reduces deficiency heat, clears malnutrition heat, and removes dampness-heat.

[Indications]

1. For steaming bone fever tidal fever. This product is cold in nature and enters the blood aspect of the heart and liver meridians. It has the functions of reducing deficiency heat, removing steaming bone fever, cooling blood and clearing heat. Treat yin deficiency, steaming bone fever, often used with Starwort Root, Chinese Wolfberry Root-bark, such as Bone-Clearing Powder .
2. For use in children with malnutrition. This product can not only remove infantile malnutrition and heat, but also clear gastrointestinal dampness-heat, so it can be used for infantile malnutrition with accumulated fever, indigestion, abdominal distension and fullness, and low-grade fever that persists. Often used synonymously with Tangshen, White Atractylodes Rhizome, hawthorn fruit, such as Chubby Child Pill.
3. Used for dampness-heat diarrhea, hemorrhoids swelling and pain. This product is bitter and cold-settling, has the same effect as Coptis Rhizome, and is good at removing dampness-heat and lower energizer dampness fire accumulation in the gastrointestinal tract. It is a good medicine for treating dampness-heat diarrhea and hemorrhoids swelling and pain. To treat dampness-heat diarrhea, it is often used with Skullcap Root, Phelloendron Bark, chinese pulsatilla root. To treat hemorrhoids, hedgehog skin and musk can be used as pills, or Abalone Shell and Sophora Flower, Pangolin Scales are taken as pills.

[Documentation]

1. "Drug Justice": "Neopicrorhiza, alone enters the blood and clears away heat. Danxi cloud: steaming bone fever, all caused by accumulation, this can cool the blood and benefit yin, its function is only strong, if it is night, fever, During the day, it becomes clear that heat is in the blood. This combined with Xiong rhizome is classified as Erlian Decoction, which is wonderful for removing heat." Ulcer, blood stranguria, hematochezia and syphilis, etc., dampness fire agglomeration, otherwise it cannot directly reach the hospital, and it can also be used for infantile malnutrition with abdominal distension in children. "

[Usage and Dosage]

Take it orally as a decoction, 2-6g; or take it as pills or powder. For external use, grind it into powder and apply it or soak it in juice for eye drops.

[Precaution]

People with spleen-stomach weakness should use with caution.

[Modern Pharmacology]

This product contains Neopicrorhiza glycosides, Neopicrorhiza alcohol, Neopicrorhiza sterols, berberine, etc. The root extract has choleretic and antibacterial effects.