English name RHIZOMASMILACISGLABRAE
Source This product is the dried rhizome of SmilaxglabraRoxb. of Liliaceae. Digging in summer and autumn, removing fibrous roots, washing and drying, or slicing and drying while fresh.
Characteristics This product is slightly cylindrical, slightly flat or irregular, with nodular uplift and short branches, with a length of 5 ~ 2～5cm and a diameter of 2 ~ 5 cm. The surface is yellowish brown or grayish brown, uneven, with hard fibrous root residues, round bud marks at the top of branches, irregular cracks on some skins and residual scales; Hard. Slices are oblong or irregular, with a thickness of1~ 5 mm and irregular edges; The section is white to reddish brown, powdery, with punctate vascular bundles and most small bright spots; It is slightly tough, with dust flying when it is broken, and it feels sticky and slippery after being wetted with water. Odorless, slightly sweet and astringent.
Processing to remove impurities; If not sliced, soak, wash, moisten thoroughly, slice and dry.
Sexual taste and meridian tropism are sweet, light and flat. Liver and stomach meridians entered.
Function and indications: dehumidification, detoxification and joint dredging. Used for limb contracture and muscle pain caused by damp-heat stranguria, leukorrhagia, carbuncle swelling, scrofula, scabies, syphilis and mercury poisoning.
1, syphilis. Use four liang of Smilax glabra and seven seeds of Gleditsia sinensis to decoct water instead of tea.
2, bone contracture carbuncle leakage (pain in bones and muscles, festering into carbuncle, accumulating for years, becoming a lifelong disease). Use one or two of Smilax glabra, add Scutellaria baicalensis and Coptidis Rhizoma for heat, add Sijunzi decoction for qi deficiency, add Siwu decoction for blood deficiency, and decoct water instead of tea. Another prescription: use four or two pieces of Smilax glabra, one or two pieces of Siwutang, seven pieces of Fructus Gleditsiae Abnormalis, forty-nine pieces of Sichuan pepper and seven pieces of lampwick, and decoct water instead of tea.
3, ulceration. Slice Rhizoma Smilacis Glabrae, or grind it into powder, decoct it in water, or eat it in porridge. It is better to eat more.
Usage and dosage15 ~ 60g. Store in a ventilated and dry place.
Remind you: Smilax glabra, a Chinese herbal medicine, comes from the Internet. Please follow the doctor's advice before using it.