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Prunella Spike
Spica Prunellae
This drug is the spike or whole plant of the perennial
herb, Prunella vulgaris L. (Family Labiaceae), grown in
the regions throughout China, mainly produced when its
spikes become withered, and dried in the sunlight.
Properties: Bitterness
and pungent in flavour, coldness in nature, it acts liver and
gallbladder channels. Its bitter flavour and cold
property clear the heat and fire, and the pungency
resolves the hard lumps. The herb can clear the
excessive fire from liver and gallbladder to improve
vision, and reduce the phlegm- fire stasis to remove
scrofula. It is an important herb for treating
conjunctival congestion, headache, and scrofula caused
by phlegm-fire stasis.
Effects: Clearing
up liver-heart, purging fire, subduing swellings, and
resolving hard lumps.
Indications:
1. For treating
intense fire in the liver channel, liver fire,
conjunctival congestion, dizziness and headache, it is
used in combination with the drugs for clearing
liver-fire, and improve vision, such as capejasmine
fruit and chrysanthemum flower. For treating deficiency
of liver-yin, blurred vision, it is used together with
wolfberry fruit and cassia seed to nourish liver and
improve vision.
2. For treating
the scrofula caused by stasis of phlegm fire, it is used
in combination with the drugs such as scrophularia root,
oyster shell and kelp (laminaria) for softening and
resolving hard lumps, resolving phlegm and eliminating
scrofula.
Dosage and
Administration:10-15g. Decocted in water for an oral
dose of prepared as adhesive plaster.
Precautions:
The water and alcohol extracts of this herb can lower
the blood pressure. Its decoction has inhibiting effects
of varying degrees on such bacteria such as Shigella
dysen teriae, Salmonella typhi, Vibrio cholerae,
Escherichia coli, Mycobacterium tuberculosis var.
hominis, and staphylococci. It also has an anti-neoplastic
effect.
Air ship 500 grams (about 1.1 pound)
of Prunella
Spike
(xia ku cao) for your personnel use now for
US$21.60. 
Note: Before using it, please contact us about how to
use it and the dosage.
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