Tiger ginger (《陕西中草药》)
拼音名 Láo Hǔ Jiānɡ
异名白药子(《宁夏中草药手册》), panlong qi (盘龙七), abacus qi (算盘七), chicken head ginseng (鸡头参) and shanjian jiang (《陕西中草药》),惹涅 (藏名).
Origin is the rhizome of Curly Leaf Yellow Essence, family Liliaceae.
Botanical Forms Curly Leaf Yellow Essence, also known as: Verticillium.
Perennial herb, 80 to 150 centimeters tall.
The rhizome is plump, in the form of irregular nodular lumps, resembling ginger, with distinctive stem scars in the form of discs.
The stem is cylindrical, striated, with curved tips.
Leaves in whorls of 3 to 8, linear-lanceolate, 7.5 to 12 centimeters long, apex curled, powdered below.
Flowers small, white, green or purplish, each common pedicel bearing 1 to 4 flowers in whorls; bracts lanceolate, white, membranous; perianth tube, apex 6-lobed, clefts papillose-pubescent; stamens borne above the middle of the perianth tube, filaments ciliate; style as long as the ovary.
Berry globose, black when ripe.
Born in alpine forest margins.
Distributed in Ningxia, Xizang, Xinjiang, Shaanxi, Gansu, Hubei, Sichuan, and NE China.
It is also cultivated in Shandong and other places.
The rhizome of this product is also used as yellow essence.
Collection pounding. The rhizome is dug in the fall.
Remove the stems, leaves and roots, wash, slice, and dry in the sun.
The properties are sweet, pungent and flat.
①"Shaanxi Chinese Herbal Medicine": sweet and slightly pungent, warm in nature, with a small poison.
② "Ningxia Chinese Herbal Medicine Manual": pungent, flat.
③Tibet Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicine: flat in nature, sweet in flavor.
Functions and Indications-Tiger Ginger moistens the lungs and nourishes the yin, strengthens the spleen and benefits the qi, expels phlegm and stops bleeding, and subdues swellings and detoxifies the toxin.
Treating consumption and cough, dizziness, hypophagia, spermatorrhea, night sweating, leaking, postpartum deficiency, hematemesis, epistaxis, traumatic hemorrhage, sore throat, sores, scrofula.
①Shaanxi Chinese Herbal Medicine: tonifying the spleen and moistening the lung, nourishing yin and tonifying the kidney, promoting qi and activating blood circulation, astringing and stopping bleeding, and pulling out toxins and sterilizing bacteria.
Treating spleen deficiency with little food, lung deficiency with cough, dizziness and body pain, spermatorrhea and night sweating, leakage and leucorrhea, sores at the beginning of boils, scrofula.
②Ningxia Chinese Herbal Medicine Manual: expectorate and stop bleeding, reduce swelling and detoxification.
To cure coughing and vomiting blood, nosebleed, traumatic bleeding, sore throat, sores and poisons.
③Tibet Commonly Used Chinese Herbs: tonifying the spleen and stomach, moistening the lungs and generating fluids.
Treatment of deficiency, consumptive cough, impotence and weakness of muscles and bones.
④Nanchuan Manual of Commonly Used Traditional Chinese Medicines: tonifying the kidney and lungs, benefiting qi and nourishing yin.
Treating weakness of qi and blood after childbirth.
Use and dosage Internal use: decoction, 2-5 qian; grinding or soaking in wine.
Externally: pounding compresses or applying water-ground juice.