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Zhejiang shellfish

FRITILLARIAE THUNBERGII BULBUS

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This product is a dried mackerel stem of the lily family Plant Fritillaria thunbergii Miq.

Correlation name

Big shell, big shellfish, Zhejiang shellfish, Zhejiang shellfish, pearl shell, yuan baby, plate shell, elephant shell, elephant shellfish, elephant mountain shellfish

Origin

It is mainly produced in Ningbo, Zhejiang. It is also produced in Jiangsu, Anhui and Hunan. Multi-lineage cultivation.

Harvesting and processing

Dig up and wash when the plants wilt in early summer. The size is separated, and the large one removes the core bud, which is called "big shell"; the small one does not go to the core bud, and is called "pearl shell". Rub separately, remove the outer skin, mix with the forged shell powder, suck off the pulp juice, dry; or take the stalk, the size is separated, washed, remove the core buds, cut into thick slices, washed, dried, known as "Zhejiang shell slices".

Trait identification

The large shell is a single-lobed salmon leaf on the outer layer of the bulb, slightly crescent-shaped, 1 to 2 cm tall and 2 to 3.5 cm in diameter. The outer surface is white to pale yellow, and the inner surface is white or light brown, covered with a white powder. Hard and brittle, easy to break, white to yellow-white, pinkish. The smell is slight, the taste is slightly bitter.

The pearl shell is a complete stalk, flattened and rounded, 1 to 1.5 cm high and 1 to 2.5 cm in diameter. The surface is white, the outer layer of the salmon leaves 2 petals, hypertrophic, slightly kidney-like, hugging each other, with 2 to 3 small scales and shrunken stems.

Zhejiang shellfish flakes are slices cut from single-lobed salmon leaves on the outer layer of the scorpion stem. Oval or quasi-circular, diameter 1 to 2 cm, edge surface pale yellow, cut surface flat, pink white. Brittle, easy to break, white and powdery.

Sexual taste is attributed to the scriptures

Bitter, cold. Belong to the lungs and heart meridians.

Performance characteristics

This product is bitter cold and discharged into the lungs and heart meridians, and is a product for clearing heat and venting. Similar to Chuanbeimu, it is longer than clearing heat and evil, opening depression and scattering knots, and is mostly used for phlegm fever, wind fever cough and fistula sore swelling.

efficacy

Clears heat and dissolves phlegm, loosens knots and reduces swelling.

Principal medical certificate

(1) Lung fever cough and wheezing, wind fever cough.

(2) Fistula, sores, cradle carbuncles, pulmonary carbuncles.

Dosage

Internal use: decoction, 3 ~ 9g; or into the pills scattered.

Use caution

This product is bitter cold, so wind chill or cold phlegm cough is contraindicated, and those with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold are cautious. Anti-aconitum should not be used with appendages, Chuanwu, Chuanwu, Caowu, and Caowu.

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