This product is the fruit of Puncturevine Caltrop Fruit (Tribulus terrestris L.), an annual or perennial herbaceous plant of the Puncturevine Caltrop Fruit family. Mainly produced in Northeast, North China and Northwest China. Harvest in autumn when the fruits are ripe. Cut off the whole plant, dry it in the sun, break the fruit, grind off the hard thorns and remove impurities. Stir-frying to yellow or salt-fried.

[Property]

bitter and acrid, neutral. act on liver channel.

[Efficacy]

Soothing liver, dispelling wind and improving vision.

[Indications]

1. Used for ascendant hyperactivity of liver yang, dizziness and dizzy vision. This product is bitter, enters the liver, and has the effect of calming liver yang. Often used with Uncaria, Nacre, Chrysanthemum Flower to enhance its liver-calming effect.
2. It is used for liver depression, stagnation, chest distending pain and breast distending pain. This product is a pungent powder that enters the liver and has the effects of soothing the liver and relieving depression. It can be used with Bupleurum, Cyperus, green tangerine peel and other combinations of medicinals to treat distending pain in the chest and ribs. This product can be ground into powder and taken alone or combined with Pangolin Scales, Cowherb Seed and other medicinals to treat postpartum liver depression, agalactia and breast distending pain.
3. Used for wind-heat attack and red eye nebula barrier. Its taste is pungent, and it dissipates the wind-heat in the liver meridian and reduces nebula. It is used to treat symptoms such as wind-heat, red eye swelling and pain, excessive tearing and eye discharge, or nebula membrane covering the eyes. It is often used with Chrysanthemum Flower, Cassia Seed, Chastetree Fruit A combination of medicinals, such as Puncturevine Caltrop Fruit powder.
4. For rubella cutaneous pruitus, vitiligo. This product is pungent and powdery, dispelling wind and relieving itching. To treat rubella cutaneous pruitus, it is often combined with dispelling wind antipruritic drugs such as Saposhnikovia Root, Schizonepeta, belvedere fruit, etc.; Qianjin Fang Use this product alone to grind it into powder and flush it into the eyes to treat Vitiligo.

[Documentation]

1. Benjing: "Maintains bad blood, breaks the key points of abdominal mass, pharyngitis, and breast difficulty. Taking it for a long time can grow muscles and improve vision."
2. Bielu: "Cure body wind-heat sore (pityriasis rosea), headache."
3. Bencao Qiuzhen: "Dispel wind evil in the liver meridian. Red eye, swollen nebula, and nebula are seen due to excessive wind. If you have vitiligo all over your body and itching, it will be cured by taking this medicine."

[Usage and Dosage]

Decoct and take, 6~15g.

[Modern Pharmacology]

This product contains fatty oil and a small amount of volatile oil, tannins, resins, alcohols, potassium salts, saponins, trace alkaloids, etc. Water leaching solution and ethanol leaching solution have a hypotensive effect on anesthetized animals. Has diuretic effect. Both alkaloids and water-soluble parts can inhibit the growth of Staphylococcus aureus and large intestinal bacteria.