Calamus
【Variety source】The dried rhizome of the Asteraceae plant Calamus. Digging in autumn and winter, removing roots and sediment, and drying in the sun.
【Aliases】Calamus leaf, calamus, water sword grass, calamus, medicinal calamus.
【Sexual taste】Bitter, bitter, warm.
【Gui Jing】 Gui Heart, liver, and spleen meridians.
【Effect】Enlighten, open phlegm, regulate qi, activate blood, disperse wind, remove dampness.
【Application】
- Constant treatment of tumors
It is often used to treat gastric cancer, colon cancer, cranial glioma, esophageal cancer, acute myeloid leukemia, oral cancer and other tumors.
- Other apps
Treatment of snake bites: an appropriate amount of calamus, pounded externally.
【Precautions for use】Yin deficiency and yang, irritability and sweating, coughing, vomiting blood, and smooth people should take with caution.
【Literature Discussion】
"Compendium of Materia Medica": Calamus temperature, those who lack mental qi use it, and the deficiency makes up for their mother. The liver is anxious, and it is necessary to make up for it.
"Materia Medica": Stone calamus, good qi and know-how, such as because of phlegm and fire two evils, causing qi is not smooth, the trick is not clear, it is appropriate to serve. If the qi is insufficient, the spirit is discouraged, the qi is not yang qi for the movement and does not understand, it is common to use ten complete soup to play a lot, and the stone calamus does not need to ask.