Half-summer

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Half-summer, Tennessee family of medicinal plants, medicinal parts for the tuber. It is harvested in the summer and fall when the stem and leaves are in full bloom, and the outer skin and roots are removed and dried in the sun, which is the raw half-summer. Because of its greater toxicity, more than the use of concocted, according to the different methods of concocting half-summer, ginger half-summer, Qing half-summer and so on. Its flavor is pungent, warm and toxic; it belongs to the spleen, stomach and lung meridians. Its functions include drying dampness and removing phlegm, harmonizing the middle and strengthening the stomach, lowering the rebelliousness and stopping vomiting, eliminating lumps and dispersing knots, and reducing swellings and relieving pain when used externally.