This product is the dried product of common carpesium root (Carpesium abrotanoides L.), a perennial herbaceous plant of the Asteraceae family, or wild carrot (Daucus carota var. carota), a biennial herbaceous plant of the Umbelliferae family. Ripe fruit. The former is mainly produced in various parts of North China, and is called Northern Carpesium Fruit, and is the authentic product recorded in materia medica books; the latter is mainly produced in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Hubei, Sichuan and other places, and is called wild carrot fruit. Harvest the fruits when they are ripe in autumn and dry them in the sun. Use raw or fried.

bitter and acrid, neutral; slightly toxic. act on spleen and stomach channels.

[Efficacy]

killing worms and releasing malnutrition.

[Indications]

Used for abdominal pain due to insect infestation. This product is hard and slightly poisonous, and has the effect of killing worms and releasing malnutrition. It is effective against roundworms, pinworms and tapeworms, expelling pathogens from exterior and abdominal pain. It can be taken alone as pills or powder; it can also be used with Areca Seed and Quisqualis Fruit to enhance the effect of killing worms, such as Yifang Jijie Parasite-Exterminating Pill.

1. Xinxiu Bencao: "For roundworms and pinworms, use it as powder. Take fat meat juice and take it with a square-cun spoon; it can also be taken as pills or powder."
2. Benjing Fengyuan: "Good at regulating adverse qi, curing phlegm stagnation and killing worms."

[Usage and Dosage]

3~9 grams.

[Processing and Storage]

1. Pure preparation: remove impurities and sieve to remove debris ("Pharmacopoeia 63").
2. Stir-fry: Take Carpesium Fruit, stir-fry with mild fire until fragrant and yellowish, and sift away the ash ("Integration").

[Modern Pharmacology]

The common carpesium root fruit contains valerian root acid, n-caproic acid, oleic acid, d-linolenic acid, trimonane, stigmasterol, common carpesium root lactones, common carpesium root ketones and other lactone compounds. Wild carrot fruit contains volatile oil, containing Asarum ether, sweet myrrhene, Croton Fruit acid, Asarum aldehyde. Common carpesium root has tapeworm-repelling effects; wild carrot has foxtail millet-like alkaline effects.