Chinese Pharmacopoeia:Dibasic bark

SourceThis product is the dried root bark of Lycium chinense Mill. or Lycium barbarum L. of the family Solanaceae. The roots are harvested in early spring or after fall, washed, stripped of the root bark and dried in the sun.

Traits of this product is cylindrical or grooved, 3-10cm long, 0.5-1.5cm wide, 0.1-0.3cm thick. the outer surface is gray-yellow to brown-yellow, rough, with irregular longitudinal cracks, easy to peel off as scales. The inner surface is yellowish-white to grayish-yellow, relatively flat, with fine longitudinal lines. Light, brittle, easy to break, the section is not flat, the outer layer is yellowish brown, the inner layer is grayish white. The flavor is slightly sweet and bitter.

Concocted to remove impurities and residual wood core, washed, dried.

Sweet and cold in nature.

Attributed to the lung, liver and kidney meridians.

Functions and IndicationsCooling the blood and removing steam, clearing the lung and lowering fire. It is used in treating yin deficiency and tidal fever, bone vapor and night sweating, lung-heat cough, hemoptysis, epistaxis, and internal heat and thirst.

Dosage 9~15g.

Store in a dry place.

Remarks (1) It can clear and drain the heat of the lungs, and if the heat of the lungs is removed, the lung qi will be cleared and purified, and the wheezing and coughing can be reduced, and it is often used together with Sangbaipi. It is often used with Sang Bai Pi. It is used for vomiting blood, epistaxis, etc., and can be used with Bai Mao Gen and Sai Bo Ye. It is often used in combination with Artemisia annua, Bupleurum, Vitex, etc. in cases of yin deficiency, fever and low-grade fever.

Excerpted from Chinese Pharmacopoeia

For reference only.