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common nameLicorice Products
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categoryHeat-Clearing and Fire-Purging
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Place Liquorice Root powder inside a bamboo tube and soak it in a human cesspit for a certain period of time. The resulting product is cylindrical in shape, with a brown exterior and a dark yellow cross-section. The texture is relatively rough, with visible interwoven Liquorice Root fibers densely packed together, making it slightly hard and compact. The surface is prone to flaking. It has a distinctive odor.

bubble_chart Properties and Meridians

Sweet; salty; cold. Act on heart meridian; act on stomach meridian.

  1. Bencao Beiyao: "sweet, cold. Act on stomach meridian."
  2. "Yugui Medicine Solution": "act on hand shaoyin meridian. Act on heart meridian. Act on foot shaoyang gallbladder meridian."
  3. Bencao Huiyan: "bitter and slightly sweet, extremely cold, nontoxic."
  4. Benjing Fengyuan: "sweet and salty, cold."
  5. Bencao Qiuzhen: "Specializes in intestinal act on stomach meridian, sweet, cold."
  6. Bencao Fahui: "cool."
  7. Bencao Mengquan: "Cold."

bubble_chart Efficacy

Clearing heat, cooling blood, removing toxins.

bubble_chart Indications

It is used to treat epidemic diseases, high fever with irritability and thirst, and skin eruptions with bleeding. Licorice products clear heat and cool blood, and are used to treat warm febrile diseases with high fever and irritability. It can be taken alone by infusing it with sugar in hot water, or decocted together with Gypsum and Coptis Rhizome to enhance the effects of clearing heat and purging fire.

  • To treat heat toxin-induced skin eruptions and dysphoria with constipation, it can be combined with Rhinoceros Horn, Unprocessed Rehmannia Root, and other heat-clearing and blood-cooling medicinals.
  • For hematemesis due to reckless movement of blood heat accompanied by irritability, it can be combined with hemostatic medicinals such as India Madder Root to strengthen the hemostatic effect.
  • In addition, licorice products have the effect of clearing heat and removing toxins, and are often used with heat-clearing, fire-purging, and toxin-removing medicinals such as Lonicera and Gardenia to treat external diseases such as sores, ulcers, and erysipelas.

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    bubble_chart Usage and Dosage

    For internal use: decoct 6-10 grams (wrapped in cloth) in water; or prepare into pills or powder.

    bubble_chart Cautions and Contraindications

    Non-heat type Rebing is contraindicated. Bencao Jingshu: "Cold-damage disease pestilence should not be used in cases without Yangming excess heat; smallpox should not be used in cases without fire heat stagnation causing purple-black dry inward invasion and inverted scabs."

    bubble_chart Processing and Storage

    Select thick Dyers Woad bamboo and cut it into sections to form bamboo tubes with one end closed. Scrape off the outer layer of green tangerine peel. Then, fill the bamboo tube with Liquorice Root powder and compact it until it is about 0.3 cm from the tube opening. Lay Bamboo Shavings on top, seal tightly with a wooden plug, and use melted rosin to seal the opening. Hang the tube in a manure pit and soak for 49 days (usually done in winter and taken out the following spring). After taking it out, rinse it in long river water for 49 days, then lift it out and expose it to sun and dew for 7 days to obtain the final product.

    "Explanation of Names": Fill the bamboo tube with Liquorice Root powder, seal both ends with bamboo or wood, and immerse it in a human manure vat during winter. Take it out at the Beginning of Spring (1st solar term), hang it in a windy place to dry in the shade, then break the bamboo to retrieve the Liquorice Root powder, and dry it in the sun.

    bubble_chart Selected Prescriptions

    1. Preventing epidemic: Licorice products, any amount, made into pills with rice, the size of mung beans, take fifteen pills. (Songfeng Shuoyi Licorice Products Pill)
    2. Treating severe fever and thirst: Licorice products mixed with white sugar and taken with boiled water. (Sichuan Chinese Materia Medica)
    3. Treating severe pestilence heat: Licorice products, Coptis Rhizome, and Gypsum decocted and taken. (Sichuan Chinese Materia Medica)
    4. Treating hematemesis, spitting phlegm, and steaming bone fever with vexation: Licorice products ground into powder, take three qian each time, mixed with madder root juice, bamboo juice, and ginger juice. (Danxi Xinfa)
    5. Treating erysipelas: Licorice products 6g, Lonicera 4.5g, peony bark 4.5g, raw gardenia 6g. Decocted with water, taken three times a day. (Modern Practical Chinese Medicinals)
    6. Treating pufferfish poisoning, mushroom poisoning, and all malignant sores: Licorice products and wine-processed Rhubarb Rhizoma in equal parts. Ground into powder, taken with ash-free wine, causing diarrhea shortly after, expelling the poison. Even if very thirsty, do not drink water. (Benjing Fengyuan)

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