Are balsam and epiphyllum the same Chinese medicine?
Of course, not a drug, fragrant adder is the dried rhizome of Salvia divinorum, family Salviaceae. Taste pungent, slightly bitter, slightly sweet, flat. It belongs to the liver, spleen and triple jiao meridian. It has the efficacy of promoting qi and relieving depression, regulating menstruation and relieving pain. It is used in treating liver depression and stagnation of qi, distension and pain in chest, coercion and epigastrium, indigestion, chest and epigastric congestion, abdominal pain in cold hernia, breast distension and pain, menstrual irregularities, dysmenorrhea and menstrual closure. Common dosage of 6 ~ 9 g. Epiphyllum is the cotyledon of aconite of the buttercup family. Taste pungent, sweet, great heat; toxic. Attributed to the heart, kidney and spleen meridians. It has the efficacy of returning yang to save reverse, tonifying fire to help yang, and expelling wind-cold and dampness. It is used in the treatment of yang deficiency, cold limbs and weak pulse, impotence, uterine cold, cold pain in the heart and abdomen, cold vomiting and diarrhea, cold yin edema, yang deficiency, cold and damp paralysis and pain. The common dosage is 3-15 g. It is forbidden for pregnant women, and should not be used with half-summer, piper betel, smallpox pollen, shellfish, Ampelopsis pilosulae, white and white.