This product is the rhizome of Lesser Galangal Rhizome (Alpinia offinarum Hance), a perennial herbaceous plant of the Zingiberaceae family. Also known as Galangal. Mainly produced in Guangdong, Guangxi, Taiwan and other places. In late summer and early autumn, excavate rhizomes that have grown for 4 to 6 years, remove above-ground stems, fibrous roots and residual scales, wash, cut into sections, and dry in the sun. For raw use.

[Property]

acrid, hot. act on spleen and stomach channels.

[Efficacy]

dissipating cold to relieve pain, warming middle and arresting vomiting.

[Indications]

1. For stomach cold cold pain. This product is pungent and warm, good at dissipating cold to relieve pain. It is a commonly used medicine to treat stomach cold and abdominal cold pain. It is often used with Blast-Fried Ginger for mutual reinforcement, such as Erjiang Pills. If it is used to treat stomach cold liver depression, abdominal distension and fullness pain, it is often used in combination with Cyperus to soothe liver and relieving depression, dissipating cold to relieve pain, such as Lesser Galangal and Cyperus Pill.
2. For stomach cold vomiting syndrome. This product has the effect of warming and dispersing cold evil and downbearing counterflow to stop vomiting. It can be used equally with Pineilia and Fresh Ginger Rhizome. If treating deficiency and cold vomiting, it can be used equally with Tangshen, Poria, White Atractylodes Rhizome.

[Documentation]

1. Bielu: "Maintains severe cold, coldness in the stomach, cholera abdominal pain."
2. Bencao Gangmu: "Shiquan dialect: heart and spleen For cold pain, use Lesser Galangal Rhizome, stir-fry until fine, take 1 penny of rice drink, and stop immediately. "
3. Bencao Congxin: "Warm the stomach and dispel cold, eliminate food and sober up, and treat cold stomach. pain."

[Usage and Dosage]

Decoct and take, 3-10g; grind into powder and take, 3g each time.

[Modern Pharmacology]

This product contains volatile oil. The main components in the oil are 1,8-phyllin and cassia bark acid methyl ester. In addition, it also contains Lesser Galangal Rhizome, Lesser Galangal Rhizome phenol, etc.

• The 0.25%~0.75% decocted with water agent of this product has an excitatory effect on the isolated intestine; the 1%~1.25% decocted with water agent and the saturated water solution of volatile oil have an inhibitory effect.
• This product decoction has varying degrees of inhibitory effects on anthrax bacilli, diphtheria bacilli, hemolytic streptococci, Bacillus subtilis, pneumococci, Staphylococcus aureus, human subcutaneous node bacilli, etc.