This product is a large Puff-Ball (Calvatia gigantra (Batsh ex pers.) Loly) and a purple Puff-Ball (Calvatia lilacina of the Puff-Ball family). Dried fruiting bodies of I> (Mont et Berk.) Lloyd) and peeling Puff-Ball (Lasiosphaera fenzlii Renzlii Reich.). Mainly produced in Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Jilin, Liaoning and other provinces. Harvest in autumn and remove the outer hard skin. Cut into cubes or grind into powder.

[Property]

acrid, neutral. act on lung channel.

[Efficacy]

clearing heat and removing toxin, disinhibiting benifiting the pharynx and stopping bleeding.

[Indications]

1. It is used for wind-heat, lung fire, sore throat, cough loss of voice. The taste is pungent and light, and enters the lung meridian. It can not only dissipate wind-heat in the lung meridian, but also clear and purge excess fire in the lung meridian. It is good at removing toxin disinhibiting benifiting the pharynx. It is a commonly used medicine for treating sore throat. For mild cases, it can be ground into powder and swallowed alone, or combined with Lonicera, Forsythia, Skullcap Root and other medicines. For severe cases, Mentha, Great Burdock Achene and Scrophularia Root, Coptis Rhizome, Isatis Root is used equally, and plays the role of releasing exterior with pungent-cool, clearing heat and removing toxin, such as Universal Relief Decoction for Eliminating Toxin.
2. Used for hematemesis, epistaxis, and traumatic bleeding. This product has hemostatic properties and is used to treat fire pathogens, lung compression, bleeding caused by blood heat, epistaxis, etc. It can be used alone or in combination with other blood-cooling hemostatic medicinals; used to treat traumatic bleeding, Puff- Ball powder is applied to wounds to stop bleeding.

[Usage and Dosage]

3 to 6 grams. Decoct and take. Appropriate amount for external use.

[Precaution]

It should not be used by those with cough caused by wind-cold and loss of voice.

[Modern Pharmacology]

This product contains Puff-Ball reagents, urea, ergot sterols, leucine, and a large amount of sodium phosphate. Peeling Puff-Ball has a hemostatic effect and has a significant hemostatic effect on oral and nasal bleeding. Decoction has inhibitory effects on Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Proteus and Diplococcus pneumoniae, as well as a few pathogenic fungi. Puff-Ball is an anti-cancer substance that has inhibitory effects on throat cancer and lung cancer in animal clinical experiments.