Collecting and processing, digging in autumn, drying in the sun, removing fibrous roots, moistening and slicing. Raw or roasted.
Pungent and sweet in nature, cold in nature and non-toxic.
Efficacy: Indications: headache due to wind-heat eruption, and poor penetration of measles; Heat-clearing and detoxicating, sores, swelling and toxin, and other heat-toxic syndromes; Lifting yang, loss of fat, and uterine prolapse.
The attached prescription is used for treating headache caused by wind-heat in head and face (Yangming headache), and it can be used as gypsum of Angelica dahurica. Measles is not well transmitted, and it is often combined with Radix Puerariae, such as Cimicifuga Radix Puerariae Decoction.
This product is used for clearing away heat and toxic materials, such as treating swollen gums and sores on the tongue due to excessive stomach fire. It is often combined with Radix Rehmanniae, Rhizoma Coptidis and Gypsum Fibrosum, such as Qingwei Powder. For sore throat, it can be combined with Radix Scrophulariae and Radix Platycodi. For carbuncle, swelling, sores and macula, it is compatible with Flos Lonicerae, Fructus Forsythiae, Folium Isatidis and Radix Paeoniae Rubra.
This product can promote yang qi, and is used for qi deficiency and subsidence, proctoptosis and uterine prolapse. It is often combined with Dangshen, Huangqi and Chaihu, such as Buzhong Yiqi Decoction.