This product is the rhizome of the perennial herbaceous plant Acorus (Acorus tatarinowii Schott.) of the Arisaema family. It is distributed in all provinces south of the Yangtze River Basin in China and is mainly produced in Sichuan, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and other places. Excavate in autumn and winter, remove leaves, fibrous roots and mud, dry in the sun or use fresh.

Ancient literature calls Acorus "one inch with nine knots is good", so this product is also called irkutsk anemone rhizome. However, the modern term irkutsk anemone rhizome is the rhizome of Altai anemone (Anemone altaica Fisch.), a perennial herbaceous plant of the japanese buttercup herb family, and should not be confused with Acorus.

Acrid and bitter, warm. act on heart and stomach channels.

[Efficacy]

resuscitation peace of mind, resolving dampness and stomach.

[Indications]

1. Used for phlegm-dampness and unconsciousness of seven orifices. This product is pungent, bitter, dry, warming, and fragrant. It not only has the effect of resuscitation, calming the mind and calming the mind, but also has the effects of resolving dampness, eliminating phlegm, and eliminating filth. It is good at rejuvenating orifices, removing dampness and turbidity, and awakening the mind. Therefore, it is suitable to be used to treat confusion caused by phlegm-dampness, filthy turbidity, seven orifices. If it is used to treat patients with phlegm, heat, high fever, unconsciousness and delirious speech, it is often combined with Curcuma Root, Pineilia, Bomboo Juice and other medicinals. , such as Acorus Curcuma Root Soup, can also treat phlegm-heat epilepsy convulsion, and can be combined with Immature Orange Fruit, Bamboo Shavings, Coptis Rhizome and other combinations of medicinals, such as clearing heart Gallbladder-Warming Decoction ; used to treat dampness turbidity, dizziness, somnolence, amnesia, tinn itus, deafness and other diseases, and often In combination with Poria, Milkwort Root, Fossil Bone and other medicinals, such as Spirit-Tranquillizing Mind-Stabilizing Pill . In recent years, α-Asarum ether extracted from Acorus has been used to treat epilepsy and status epilepticus effectively.
2. Used for dampness obstruction, middle energizer, abdominal distension and fullness, stuffiness and pain. This product has a spicy aroma, resolving dampness and turbidity, refreshing the spleen and appetizing, and reducing bloating after eating. Used to treat dampness turbidity, abdominal distension and fullness, often combined with Villous Amomum Fruit, Atractylodes Rhizome, Magnolia Bark, etc. The products of resolving dampness and moving qi can be used together. Used to treat dampness-heat poison, dysentery and food-denial dysentery that cannot tolerate water and grains. It is also used with Coptis Rhizome, Lotus Fruit, Poria and other combinations of medicinals, such as Closed-Mouth Opening Powder.
3. In addition, it can also be used for hoarseness, wind-dampness, Yongju scabies, bruises and injuries.

[Documentation]

1. Benjing: "Maintains wind-cold-dampness impediment, cough with dyspnea, opens heart orifice, supplements five zang-organs, clears nine orifices, improves hearing and vision, and produces sound. Long-term use "Lighten your body, don't forget, don't get confused, and prolong your life."
2. Bencao Gangmu: "Treatment of attack of noxious factor sudden death, infantile fright epilepsy, lower metrorrhagia, calming fetus fistula disease, and loose carbuncle. "Swelling."
3. Bencao Congxin: "Hard and warm, fragrant and dispersing, opening the heart orifice, benefiting nine orifices, improving ears and eyes, making sounds, removing dampness and wind, removing phlegm and eliminating accumulation, appetizing. Kuanzhong, cures mouth poisoning and dysentery."

[Usage and Dosage]

Decoct and take, 5~10g. Double the amount of fresh food. Appropriate amount for external use.

[Modern Pharmacology]

This product contains 0.11 to 0.42% volatile oil, which is mainly β-Asarum ether, α-Asarum ether, Asarum ether, etc. It also contains amino acids, organic acids and sugars. Acorus decocted with water agent, volatile oil, or Asarum ether, β-Asarum ether all have sedative effects; Acorus decocted with water agent has anticonvulsant effect; it has a strong antispasmodic effect on the isolated trachea and ileum of guinea pigs. Decoction can promote the secretion of digestive juices and prevent abnormal gastrointestinal fermentation. High-concentration leachate has an inhibitory effect on common skin fungi that cause nature of disease.