Stemona root or Radix Stemonae,Stemona sessilifolia Miq. applications and characters.

Contents

• Botanical Info of Stemona root.
• Plant Descriptions:Stemona sessilifolia and Its relatives.
• Collection,Identification and Preparations of Stemona Root.
• Constituents and Phytochemicals:Stemona Roots.
• Stemona Roots Pharmacological Effects.
• Archeology and Variety Identifications:Stemona Roots.
• Stemona Roots Administrations and Suggestions.
• Clinical Applications:Stemona Roots.
• Research Update:Stemona root.

Stemona Roots Administrations and Suggestions.:

Toxicity:

 Stemona root alkaloids over dosage to reduce excessive excitatory respiratory center, resulting in paralysis of respiratory center.

 Effects and Functions:

 Taste bitter and light warm,enter lung.

 Main For:lung disease,lice,bugs.Nurish lung and stop cough,killing bugs and lices.Main for acute and chronic cough,lung disease,Pertussis;enterobiasis; body lice; ringworm scabies.

 Cautions:forbidden for heat of spleen and stomach.

 Suggestive Dosages: decoction,3 to 10 grams;topical proper quantity,water decoction wash;or powdered applications.
 


 Classical Note:

 Bao Pu Zi noted:treat cough and killing worms.
 Bie Lu noted:main for cough and asthma.
 Tao Hongjing noted:Bai Bu fried with fire and extract with liquor,drink and treat cough,main for drive away lices.also for acute serious cough.
 Yao Xing Lun noted:treat lung heat,cough,main nurishing lung.
 Ben Cao Shi Yi noted: fried with fire and extract with liquor,drink with an empty stomach,drive away bug,Scabies and sores.
 Ri Hua Zi Ben Cao noted:killing Roundworm,inch white worm, pinworm
 Dian Nan Ben Cao noted:benefit lung,treat lung heat,cough,smooth phlegm,killing worms.
 Zhong Guo Zhi Yao Zhi noted: boil with pig feet,treat Rheumatoid.
 

 Chang Yong Zhong Cao Yao Shou Ce noted:treatment for Whooping cough, tuberculosis, bronchitis, dermatitis, eczema, urticaria, amoebic dysentery.

 Gang Mu noted:Bai Bu,similar as tian meng dong class,treat lung disease and killing worms,but bai bu taste warm and not cooling,better take it when cough induced by coldness;tian men dong character cold and not heat,better taken when cough induced by heat,thus the difference.

 Ben Cao Jing Shu noted:bai bu gen,Shu Ben noted its light cold,Ri Hua Zi noted its bitterness,Ben Jing noted its warm characters all false.Bitter and boost stool,thus good in downing,lung qi flying thus cough happens,thus better to treat cough and up going qi.Able to drive away heat in lung,thus Yao Xing Lun notes it main for lung nurishment.And its character good for killing worms,it is said bogy braizing and fatigue main for worms,so bai bu treat this.Heat from worms,such as Roundworm, inch white worm, pinworm,all killed.Bai Bu taste bitter,people with weak spleen and stomach better take it with combination of stomach protection herbs,so no harm stomach qi.

 Ben Cao Xin Bian noted:Bai Bu,killing worms but no wasting qi and blood,benefit people,but its power light,better take more,and must be combined with ginseng,poria,astragalus,cang zhu,bai bu dosage suggested from 5 grams,bigger dose 15 to 20 grams,benefit spleen and lung stomach qi,also killing worms.Thus is people suffering from lung disease and worms togethor, better combines with wolfberry root bark,sha cen,dan pi,shu di,shan zhu yu better.

Reference:

• 1.Stemona root or Radix Stemonae,Stemona sessilifolia Miq. applications and characters.

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♣ last edit date:27th,Oct.2010.