This product is the root of Scrophularia Root (Scropularia ningpoensis Hemsl.), a perennial herbaceous plant of the Scrophularia Root family. Produced in the Yangtze River Basin of my country and Shaanxi, Fujian and other provinces, both wild and domestic species are found. The Beginning of Winter (19th solar term) is excavated from front to back, repeatedly piled and sun-dried until the inside is black, dried and sliced. For raw use.

The plant of the same genus, Northern Scrophularia Root (S. buergeriana Miq.), is also used for this product in parts of Hubei, Inner Mongolia, Northeast China, and North China.

Bitter, sweet, salty, cold. Returns to the lung, stomach and kidney meridians.

[Efficacy]

clearing heat and cooling blood, enriching yin and removing toxin.

[Indications]

1. It is used for the invasion of warm evil into the camp, inward invasion of the pericardium, warm toxin disease, and constipation of body fluid injury. This product is bitter, sweet, salty, cold and moist in texture. It has the functions of clearing heat and cooling blood, nourishing yin and moistening dryness, clearing heat and removing toxin. To treat warm disease, heat enters the nutrient aspect, fever aggravated at night, upset stomach, red tongue and rapid pulse, often used with Unprocessed Rehmannia Root and Ophiopogon Tuber. Such as Nutrient-Clearing Decoction; it treats warm disease, pericardium, unconsciousness and delirious speech. It is often used with Ophiopogon Tuber and Forsythia heart. , such as Palace-Clearing Decoction; if warm febrile disease blazing of both qi and blood, spots and rashes, often associated with gypsum, Anemarrhena is used as Ecchymosis-Dissipating Decoction.
2. For sore throat, scrofula subcutaneous nodule, carbuncle and sore. This product is salty and cold, has the effect of clearing heat and cooling blood, removing toxin, disinhibiting benifiting the pharynx and reducing swelling. Treat external contraction, heat toxin congestion, sore throat, swollen-head infection, and Mentha, Forsythia, Isatis Root can be used equally, such as Universal Relief Decoction for Eliminating Toxin; to treat sore throat caused by yin deficiency with effulgent fire, it can be used with Ophiopogon Tuber and Platycodon Root and Liquorice Root are used together, such as Xuanmai Licorice and Platycodon Decoction; to treat phlegm fire stagnation, scrofula subcutaneous nodule, often used with Fritillaria Bulb and oyster shell are used together, such as Scrofula-Eliminating Pill; used to treat sore and ulcer swelling and poison, it is often used with Forsythia, Forsythia, Tokyo Violet Herb can be used equally; if used with Forsythia, Liquorice Root, Chinese Angelica, can cure digital gangrene, add Four Wonderful Herbs Resting Hero Decoction.
3. In addition, this product can be used with Lily Bulb, Unprocessed Rehmannia Root, Tendrilleaf Fritillary Bulb to treat chronic cough. hemoptysis; used with Chinese Wolfberry Root-bark, Starwort Root, Danpi, etc., to treat steaming bone fever; Used equally with Ophiopogon Tuber, Schisandra Fruit, Barbary Wolfberry Fruit, it can also cure consumptive thirst due to internal heat. All have the effect of clearing heat and cooling blood, nourishing yin and moistening dryness.

[Documentation]

1. Benjing: "Maintains cold in the middle, hot abdominal mass, women with lactation problems, supplements kidney qi, and makes eyesight."
2. Bielu: "Going into the water, quenching thirst, dispersing the subcervical core and carbuncle."
3. Bencao Gangmu: "nourishing yin and reducing fire, detoxifying the freckles, disinhibiting benifiting the pharynx throat, clearing the throat. Little bloody stool."

[Usage and Dosage]

Decoct and take 10-15g.

[Precaution]

This product is cold and stagnant in nature, and should not be taken by those with deficiency-cold of spleen and stomach, or those who eat less and have loose stools. Counter false hellebore .

This product contains alkaloids, sugars, sterols, amino acids, carotene, etc.

• Water infusion, alcohol infusion and decoction all have blood pressure lowering effects, and the antihypertensive effect is more obvious in dogs with renal hypertension.
• It also has a slight blood sugar lowering effect.
• A small dose of the infusion has a slight cardiotonic effect, but an increased dose will cause poisoning.
• It also has the effect of dilating blood vessels, promoting local blood circulation and eliminating inflammation. It can be used for thrombotic vessel inflammation obliterans.
• It has an inhibitory effect on a variety of skin fungi; it also has an inhibitory effect on Pseudomonas aeruginosa; it has the effect of neutralizing diphtheria toxin in vitro.