This product is the root of the perennial herbaceous plant of the Asteraceae family, Aucklandia Root (Aucklandia lappa Decne.), and common vladimiria root (Vladimiria souliei (Franch.) Ling). Aucklandia Root produced in Yunnan and Guangxi is called Yunnan Aucklandia Root, while that produced in India and Myanmar is called Guang Aucklandia Root. Common vladimiria root is mainly produced in Sichuan, Tibet, and other regions. It is harvested in autumn and winter, then dried. It can be used raw or roasted.

bubble_chart Properties and Meridians

Acrid and bitter, warm. Act on spleen, stomach, large intestine, gallbladder and triple energizer meridians.

bubble_chart Efficacy

Moving qi to relieve pain

bubble_chart Indications

1. is used for spleen-stomach disharmony pattern. This product is pungent, bitter, and warm, and is good at promoting the movement of qi in the spleen and stomach, making it an essential medicine for moving qi to relieve pain. It is used to treat spleen and stomach qi stagnation, abdominal distension and fullness, and can be combined with Dried Tangerine Peel, Villous Amomum Fruit, sandalwood, etc. For spleen deficiency qi stagnation, abdominal distension and fullness, poor appetite, and loose stool, it can be combined with Tangshen, White Atractylodes Rhizome, Dried Tangerine Peel, etc., such as Cyperus, Amomum and Six Gentlemen Decoction.
2. It is used for diarrhea with tenesmus. This product is pungent and bitter, and is good at promoting the movement of qi in the large intestine, making it an essential medicine for treating dampness-heat diarrhea with tenesmus. It is often combined with Coptis Rhizome, such as Aucklandia and Coptis Pill. For abdominal distension and fullness due to food accumulation, constipation, or diarrhea with incomplete evacuation, it can be combined with Areca Seed, green tangerine peel, Rhubarb Rhizoma, etc., such as Aucklandia and Areca Pill.
3. It is used for abdominal pain, hypochondriac pain, and jaundice. This product can both move qi and strengthen the spleen, as well as regulate the liver and gallbladder, making it suitable for treating abdominal distension and fullness, hypochondriac pain, and jaundice caused by dampness-heat stagnation and qi movement obstruction due to spleen dysfunction and liver stagnation. It can be combined with Curcuma Root, Rhubarb Rhizoma, Virgate Wormwood, etc. Modern use includes treating gallstones and biliary colic, with certain efficacy.

bubble_chart Documentation

1. Rihuazi Bencao: "Treats all qi in the heart and abdomen, bladder cold pain, vomiting and regurgitation, cholera diarrhea dysentery, invigorating spleen and promoting digestion, calming fetus."
2. Bencao Gangmu: "Aucklandia Root is a medicine for the triple energizer qi aspect, capable of regulating the rise and fall of various qi."

bubble_chart Usage and Dosage

Decoct and take 3-10g. When used raw, it has a strong effect on moving qi; when roasted, it has a milder effect on moving qi and is more commonly used to stop diarrhea.

bubble_chart Modern Pharmacology

Aucklandia Root contains volatile oils. The components of the oil include α-pinene, α-ionone, aucklandia lactone, α- and β-aucklandia hydrocarbons, aucklandia lactone, dihydrodehydroaucklandia lactone, aucklandia acid, aucklandia alcohol, phellandrene, among others. Additionally, it contains aucklandia alkaloids. Aucklandia Root has a bidirectional effect on the gastrointestinal tract, either stimulating or inhibiting it. It promotes the secretion of digestive juices, relaxes tracheal smooth muscle, and inhibits cold-damage disease bacilli, dysentery bacilli, large intestine bacilli, and various fungi. It also has diuretic effects and promotes the dissolution of fibrin.