TCMBANKHE000850 |
Radix Rehmanniae |
生地黄 |
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Treatment of exogenous heat invading at the nutritive and blood levels manifested as dry mouth and deep red tongue proper with scanty coating. Fresh rehmannia root (Shengdihuang) is used with Scrophularia (Xuanshen), Rhinoceros horn (Xijiao) and Ophiopogon root/1. Its decoction exerts a protective effect on experimental hepatitis of mice induced by carbon tetrachloride.2. Gastric feeding or injection of its decoction, water infusion or alcoholic extract can lower the blood sugar level in rabbits (this result is controversial in the recent years).3. Intravenous injection of its extract exerts a hypertensive and diuretic effect in rabbits and dogs.4. Its alcoholic extract shortens the blood coagulation time in rabbits.5. Its water infusion inhibits the growth of some pathogenic fungi. |
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TCMBANKHE008532 |
Radix Rehmanniae Preparata |
熟地黄 |
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To nourish n and replenish blood, reinforce the essence of life and marrow./Blood vacuity with yellow complexion, dizziness and palpitation, menstrual disorder [=menoxenia], incessant flooding and spotting, liver-kidney yin depletion, tidal fever with night sweat, impotence and emission, sterility and infertility, limp aching lumbus and knees, tinnitus and deafness, dizzy head and vision, premature graying in beard and hair, diabetes mellitus, constipation, kidney vacuity hasty asthma. |
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TCMBANKHE008565 |
Rehmannia glutinosa [Syn. Rehmannia glutinosa f. huechingensis] |
干地黄 |
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To enrich yin and clear heat, cool blood and supplement blood, lower blood sugar levels./Diabetes mellitus, dermatitis, rheumatism, diphtheria, acute tonsillitis, febrile diseases with vexation and thirst, steaming bone taxation fever, warm disease macular eruption, blood ejection due to blood heat, spontaneous external bleeding due to blood heat, flooding and spotting due to blood heat, hematuria due to blood heat, hematochezia due to blood heat, anemia with yellow complexion, palpitation and dizziness, blood depletion and amenorrhea. |
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