Name: Caulis Clematidis armandii

Category: eliminating dampness through diuresis medicine

Pinyin: CHUAN MU TONG

Latin: Caulis Clematidis Armandii

Alias: Huai Akebia

Medicinal parts: dried cane

Medicinal properties: This product is long and cylindrical, slightly twisted, length 50 ~ 100cm, 2 ~ 3.5cm in diameter. Surface yellowish brown or yellow-brown, with a longitudinal concave groove and ridge; section is expanded, with leaf scars and collateral. The remaining skin tear. Qualitative hard, not easy to be broken. Slice thickness of 0.2 ~ 0.4cm, irregular edge, the remaining skin yellowish brown, yellowish brown or light yellow wood, yellow-white radial texture and fracture, which is full of the catheter hole, pith is small, white or yellowish brown, with cavity. Odorless, tasteless.

Main points of cultivation:

Origin: Guizhou, Hunan, Sichuan

Recovery processing: spring, autumn two season of harvest. Remove rough skin, dry, or while fresh sliced, dried.

Authentic history:

Tropism of taste: bitter cold; light, heart, lung, intestine.;, the bladder; a small drug

Functions: diuresis, milk. For edema, gonorrhea, urination, joint arthralgia, amenorrhea breast small.

Usage & Dosage: orally taken decoction, 3 ~ 6G.

Taboo: gas weak Jin injury, fine slip enuresis, piss off and pregnant