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Plus 6,743 TCM formulas connecting herbs together

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🌿 Herb

Arc Shell

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🌿 All Herb data fields for Arc Shell

🌿 Names

Pinyin Name

Wa Leng Zi

中文名 (Chinese)

瓦楞子

Latin Name

Concha Arcae; Arcae Concha

English Name

Arc Shell

Alias Names

蚶壳; 瓦屋子; 瓦垄子; 蚶子壳; 花蚬壳; 瓦垄蛤皮; 血蛤皮; 毛蚶皮

☯ TCM Properties

Properties (性味)

Salty; Calm

Meridians (归经)

Lung; Stomach; Liver

Part Used

Shell

Therapeutic Class (EN)

Phlegresolving Medicine

功效分类 (CN)

化痰药

🩺 Clinical Profile

Function (功能)

To eliminate phlegm, to remove blood stasis, to soften hard masses and dissolve lumps, and to relieve gastric pain by reducing acid.

Indication (主治)

Treatment of retention of sticky phlegm difficult to expectorate, goitre, scrofula, masses in the abdomen, gastric pain with acid regurgitation.

🔗 External References

HERB DB

HERB005602 ↗

SymMap

408 ↗

TCMID

2915

TCMSP

408

TCM-ID

2156

🔍 Raw view — every non-empty column on this row (30 fields)

name

Arc Shell

chinese name

瓦楞子

pinyin name

Wa Leng Zi

latin name

Concha Arcae; Arcae Concha

english name

Arc Shell

properties english

Salty; Calm

meridians english

Lung; Stomach; Liver

use part

Shell

symmap herb id

408

tcmid id

2915

tcmsp id

408

herb id str

HERB005602

function text

To eliminate phlegm, to remove blood stasis, to soften hard masses and dissolve lumps, and to relieve gastric pain by reducing acid.

indication

Treatment of retention of sticky phlegm difficult to expectorate, goitre, scrofula, masses in the abdomen, gastric pain with acid regurgitation.

therapeutic en class

Phlegresolving Medicine

therapeutic cn class

化痰药

tcm id id

2156

alias name

蚶壳; 瓦屋子; 瓦垄子; 蚶子壳; 花蚬壳; 瓦垄蛤皮; 血蛤皮; 毛蚶皮

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How relationships are computed

Clinical Trials / Meta-Analyses / References: direct foreign-key link via subject_entity_id (Phase 2d wireup)
Formula ↔ Herbs: text bridge via formulas.herbs_in_pinyin matching herbs.pinyin_name
Herb ↔ Ingredient: ACTIVE — direct link via herb_ingredients
Ingredient ↔ Target: ACTIVE — direct link via ingredient_targets
Target ↔ Disease: ACTIVE — direct link via target_health_topics
Herb → Target → Disease (full chemical spine): ACTIVE — joins all three link tables