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Alternate English names: charred dried Chinese foxglove [root]

Alternate Chinese names: 地黄炭 dì huáng tàn

Kingdom: Plant

Origin in PRC Pharmacopoeia: Rehmannia glutinosa Libosch. (PRC Pharmacopoeia)

Origin in unofficial sources: Rehmannia glutinosa (Gaertn.) Libosch.*; Rehmannia glutinosa (Gaertn.) Libosch. f. hueichingensis (Chao et Schih) Hsiao

Use: Medicinal

Actions and indications: Stanches bleeding.

Notes: This is 干地黄 that has been char-fried in a wok or heated over a low flame in a mud-sealed pot. The original heat-clearing blood-cooling action is weakened in the process.

See: Shēng dì huáng (生地黄 Rehmanniae Radix Exsiccata seu Recens, dried/fresh rehmannia [root])

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