English name ARISAEMA CUM BILE

Source This product is made from the fine powder of Rhizoma Arisaematis preparata and bile of cattle, sheep or pigs, or from the fine powder of Rhizoma Arisaematis raw and bile of cattle, sheep or pigs by fermentation.

Characteristics This product is square or cylindrical. Brown, grayish brown or brownish black. Hard. The smell is slightly fishy and bitter.

differentiate

(1) The powder of this product is yellowish brown. Thin-walled cells are round and filled with gelatinized starch granules. The needle crystal bundle of calcium oxalate is 20 ~ 90μ m long. The diameter of threaded and annular conduit is 8 ~ 60μ m..

(2) Take 0.2g of this product powder, add 5ml of water, shake and filter, take 2ml of filtrate and put it in a test tube, and add 0.5ml of new furfural solution (1→100).

Add 2ml sulfuric acid along the pipe wall, and the junction of the two liquids will show a brownish red ring.

prepare medical herbs by parching

1 method): grind Rhizoma arisaematis into powder, add appropriate amount of bovine bile into a earthen pot, mix into paste (every 200 Jin of Rhizoma arisaematis, add it in three times with the juice of 1000 bovine bile), dry in the sun and night, then grind into powder, add bile and mix well to make paste. This is repeated until the bile is completely drained, and the color is black and there is no spicy taste.

Method 2): pulverize Rhizoma arisaematis into powder per 130 kg, mix it with 1000 bovine bile aqueous solution (you can first boil bile in a copper pot, about 100 kg into 5 kg, and dilute it with appropriate amount of water when used), and leave it outside in the sun and night dew1~.

Now, the 1 kg fine powder is made of cow bile 10, and the juice is about 40 Liang. Mix the concentrated bile with it and make it into small pieces of sun dew until it is dry.

Method 3): 60 kg of rhizoma arisaematis and 420 pieces of ox gall. Washing Rhizoma Arisaematis with water, drying in the sun, grinding into powder, adding bovine bile into a jar, mixing uniformly, sunning (in a warm room in winter), and constantly stirring to ferment Rhizoma Arisaematis, placing in a special two-layer steamer after half a month, adding 120 bovine bile into two pots separately, steaming for 3 days, cooling, taking out of the pot, and fermenting again; After 1 month, steam it again, put the juice of 90 cows' gall, steam it for 3 days (no water is allowed to flow in), put it into a special large aluminum plate or enamel plate, dry it, steam it for 12 hours, put it on a slate, make it into a spherical block, and put it into the cow's gall to dry.

The taste is bitter, slightly pungent and cool.

Meridian, lung, liver and spleen meridians.

Functions: clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, calming wind and calming convulsion. Used for phlegm-heat cough, yellow and thick expectoration, apoplexy with phlegm confusion, and epilepsy.

Usage and dosage 3 ~ 6g.

Store in a ventilated and dry place to prevent moth.

Excerpt from "National Compilation of Chinese Herbal Medicine"