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Latin pharmacognostic name: Rehmanniae Radix Recens

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

Use: Medicinal

Category:

Properties: Sweet and bitter; cold; nontoxic*.

Channel entry: Heart, liver, and kidney channels.

Indications:

Clears heat, cools the blood, and engenders liquid.

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 & Method: 15‒60g.

Product Area: Hénán, Zhèjiāng, Jiāngsū, Héběi, Shaǎnxī, Gānsū, Húnán, Húběi, Sìchuān, Shānxī.

See also: Gān dì huáng (干地黄 Rehmanniae Radix Exsiccata, dried rehmannia [root])

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