| common name | Common Carpesium Fruit |
| alias | Carpesium Fruit, Common Carpesium Fruit, Common Carpesium Fruit, Common Carpesium Fruit |
This product is the dried mature fruit of the perennial herbaceous plant of the Asteraceae family, common carpesium root (Carpesium abrotanoides L.), or the biennial herbaceous plant of the Apiaceae family, wild carrot (Daucus carota var. carota). The former is mainly produced in various regions of North China and is known as Northern Carpesium Fruit, which is recorded as the authentic product in materia medica texts. The latter is mainly produced in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Hubei, and Sichuan, and is known as wild carrot fruit. The fruits are harvested when mature in autumn and then dried. They can be used raw or stir-fried.
bubble_chart Properties and Meridians
Bitter and acrid, neutral; slightly toxic. act on spleen and stomach channels.
Killing worms and releasing malnutrition.
Used for abdominal pain caused by worm accumulation. This product is pungent and bitter, slightly toxic, and has the effects of killing worms and releasing malnutrition. It is effective against abdominal pain caused by roundworms, pinworms, and tapeworms. It can be taken alone in pill or powder form; it can also be used with Areca Seed, Quisqualis Fruit, etc., to enhance the effect of killing worms, such as Yifang Jijie Parasite-Exterminating Pill.
- Xinxiu Bencao: "Mainly for roundworms and pinworms, used as a powder, mixed with fatty meat broth, take a square-cun spoonful; also used in pills and powders."
- Benjing Fengyuan: "Good at regulating rebellious qi, treating phlegm stagnation and qi stagnation throughout the body, killing worms."
3 to 9 grams.
bubble_chart Processing and Storage
- Purification: Remove impurities and sift out mud debris to obtain the desired product (Pharmacopoeia 63).
- Stir-frying: Take Carpesium Fruit, stir-fry with mild fire until fragrant and slightly yellow, then sift out ash debris (Compilation).
bubble_chart Modern Pharmacology
The fruit of common carpesium root contains valerianic acid, n-hexanoic acid, oleic acid, dextro-linolenic acid, hentriacontane, stigmasterol, and lactone compounds such as common carpesium root lactone and common carpesium root ketone. The fruit of wild carrot contains volatile oils, including asarum ether, sweet myrrhene, crotonic acid, and asarum aldehyde. Common carpesium root has anthelmintic properties against tapeworms, while wild carrot exhibits effects similar to those of foxtail millet alkaloids.