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Rehmanniae Radix Recens

Fresh rehmannia [root]

鲜生地 〔鮮生地〕 xiān dì huáng

Alternate English names: fresh Chinese foxglove [root]

Alternate Chinese names: 鲜生地 xiān shēng dì; 鲜生地黄 xiān shēng dì huáng

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

Properties: Sweet and bitter; cold; nontoxic.✽

Channel entry: Heart, liver, and kidney channels.

Actions and indications: Clears heat, cools the blood, and engenders liquid. Treats damage to yīn in warm disease with great heat effusion with vexation thirst, crimson tongue, and clouded spirit; vomiting of blood (blood ejection) and nosebleed (nǜ xuè); vacuity taxation steaming bone; coughing of blood; dispersion-thirst (xiāo kě); constipation.

Dosage and method: 15‒60g.

Production area: Hénán, Zhèjiāng, Jiāngsū, Héběi, Shaǎnxī, Gānsū, Húnán, Húběi, Sìchuān, Shānxī.

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

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