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Kingdom: Plant

Origin in unofficial sources: Elaeagnus pungens Thunb.

Use: Medicinal

Category: Phlegm-transforming cough-relieving panting-calming agents / Cough-relieving panting-calming agents

Properties: Sour*; slightly warm*; nontoxic*.

Actions and indications:

• Relieves cough and calms panting: Lung vacuity cough and panting.
• Stanches bleeding: coughing of blood; bleeding from external injury.
• Resolves toxin: Welling- and flat-abscesses (yōng jū); painful swollen hemorrhoids.

Dosage and method: Oral: Decoct 9–15g; or use powdered form (2–3g).

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