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Rhizome of Common Amarrhe; Common Anemarrhena Rhizome
Rhizome of Common Amarrhe; Common Anemarrhena Rhizome. Class: Fire Purging Drugs. Properties: Bitter; Sweet; Cold. Meridians: Lung; Stomach; Kidney
🌿 Names
Pinyin Name
Zhi Mu
中文名 (Chinese)
知母
Latin Name
Anemarrhenae Rhizoma; Rhizoma Anemarrhenae
English Name
Rhizome of Common Amarrhe; Common Anemarrhena Rhizome
Alias Names
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☯ TCM Properties
Properties (性味)
Bitter; Sweet; Cold
Meridians (归经)
Lung; Stomach; Kidney
Part Used
Rhizome
Therapeutic Class (EN)
Fire Purging Drugs
功效分类 (CN)
清热泻火药
🩺 Clinical Profile
Function (功能)
To remove heat and quench fire, and to promote the production of body fluid and relieve dryness syndromes.
Indication (主治)
Diabetes mellitus, warm heat disease, ardent fever with vexation and thirst, cough and asthma, dry cough, constipation, steaming bone tidal fever, vacuity vexation and insomnia, strangury-turbidity.
Clinical Manifestations
1. its extract can lower b.coli induced fever in rabbits.2. bacteriostatic and fungistatic.3. its infusion can lower the blood sugar level in normal rabbits, particularly in rabbits suffering from alloxan diabetes, but its alcoholic extract raises the blo
🔗 External References
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