Phellodendron Bark is used for clearing heat and drying dampness, removing fire and detoxification, removing bone vapor and clearing heat. Phellodendron Bark is used for damp-heat diarrhea, jaundice, hyperemesis gravidarum, feverish drenching, foot fungus, impotence, bone vapor, night sweating, spermatorrhea, sores and swelling, eczema and itching. Phellodendron Bark nourishes yin and reduces fire. Phellodendron Bark is used for yin deficiency and fire exuberance, night sweating and bone vaporization.
Expanded informationThis product is plate-like or shallow groove, length and width vary, 1 ~ 6mm thick. outer surface yellow-brown or yellow-brown, flat or with longitudinal grooves, some visible lenticel marks and the remnants of gray-brown rough skin; inner surface dark yellow or light brown, with fine longitudinal ribbing. The body is light, hard, the section is fibrous, lobed and layered, dark yellow. Gas faint, taste very bitter, chewing viscous.
"Handbook of Commonly Used Clinical Chinese Medicines": Huangbai is bitter, cold and subdued, clearing heat and drying dampness, with strong power of fire-dissolving and detoxification, and is attributed to the Kidney and Urinary Bladder meridians, and is long in clearing dampness and heat in the lower Jiao.
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Baidu Encyclopedia-Phellodendron Barkhorn