Hua Jiao [1]

Posted by : admin on Feb 23, 2008 - 12:34 AM
Chinese Medicine Herbs / Warm the Interior And Expel Cold [2]

The prickly ash peel is gathered in autumn and dried in the sun.


1 TASTEPungent, hot and slightly toxic


2 MERIDIANSSpleen, stomach and kidney


3 FUNCTIONS1. To warm the spleen and stomach; 2. To stop pain;3. To kill parasites


4 INDICATIONS1. Yang deficiency of the spleen and stomach manifested as epigastric and abdominal cold pain, vomiting and Diarrhea [3]. Prickly ash peel(Huajiao) is used with Pilose asiabell root (Dang Shen [4]), Dried ginger (Ganjinag) and Malted barley (Yi Tang [5]) in the formula Da Jinzhong Tang.2. Roundoworm  manidested as abdominal pain and vomiting Prickly ash peel (Huajiao) is used with Black plum (Wu Mei [6]),Dried ginger (Gan Jiang [7]) and Coptis root (Huang Lian [8]) in the formula Wumei Wan.


5 DOSAGE2-5g


Hua Jiao

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