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Ban Lan Gen 500g Indigowoad Root Radix Isatidis Isatis Indigotica Fort.
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板蓝根
Naming
Ban Lan Gen (Radix Isatidis)——Xin Xiu Ben Cao (Newly Revised Materia Medica)
Ban Lan Gen Indigowoad Root 板藍根 Radix Isatidis
The Processing of 板蓝根
Origin
The root of biennial herbaceous plant Isatis indigotica Fort. of family Cruciferae.
Location
Shaanxi, Hebei, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui provinces, etc. of China.
Harvest
Collected in autumn.
The actual smell and taste
Light smell, slightly sweet, bitter and astringent taste.
Best quality
Straight, thick and even root, solid body with enough mealiness.
Processing
Sliced and unprocessed.
The Effect of 板蓝根
Property
Bitter, cold; lung, stomach, heart and liver meridians entered.
Actions
Clear heat and remove toxicity, cool blood, alleviate sore throat.
Indications
A. Warm disease and external contraction of wind-heat
Ban Lan Gen and Da Qing Ye are both from the same plant-Isatin, but the medicinal parts are different. They are similar in aspects of properties and effects: clearing heat and purging fire when entering qi system, and clearing heat and cooling blood when entering blood system as well; both of them are widely indicated for each stage of warm diseases, and exterior syndrome of external contraction of wind-heat; they are also commonly combined together in treating mumps, erysipelas and fever with swollen head due to warm-toxicity for mutual reinforcement. Although its action of cooling blood and removing macula is not as good as that of Da Qing Ye, it is specialized in removing toxicity to alleviate sore throat and relieve swelling, so it is suitable for treating initial warm diseases or external contraction of wind-heat characterized by fever and sore throat. For example, it is used in Gan Mao Tui Re Chong Ji from Pharmacopoeia of the People's Republic of China published in 1990; and also it is often combined with herbs good at dispersing wind-heat to improve the effect, such as Bo He, Jin Yin Hua and Lian Qiao, etc. For warm diseases in stage of dual blazing of both qi and blood or heat entering nutrient-blood manifested as high fever and macula, it has the action of clearing heat and removing toxicity, cooling blood and removing macula, and it is often combined with other toxicity-removing and blood-cooling herbs to take effects of clearing heat from both qi and blood systems. For example, it is combined with Huang Qin, Zi Cao and Sheng Di Huang in Shen Xi Dan from Wen Bing Tiao Bian.
B. Swollen and sore throat
It is good at clearing heart and removing toxicity, clearing heat from lung and stomach to alleviate sore throat and dissipate nodulation, and is commonly used in treating red swollen and sore throat, red swelling and pain of both cheeks which are all caused by interior excessive heat-toxicity, attack by epidemic toxicity or wind-heat. It can be used singly or combined with wind-heat-dispersing, toxicity-removing, and sore-throat-alleviating herbs, such as Niu Bang Zi, Xuan Shen and Jie Geng, as in Pu Ji Xiao Du Yin from Dong Yuan Shi Xiao Fang (Dongyuan's Effective Prescription).
In addition, for its actions of clearing heat, removing toxicity, and cooling blood, it is also suitable for treating sores and swollen and pain abscess, red eyes, hematemesis and epistaxis due to blood heat.
Dosage and Administrations
Decoct 15~30 g, or 60~120g as the large dose; or make into pills, powder. Proper dosage is for topical administration.
Quality Assurance
This bulk herb Ban Lan Gen 板蓝根 Indigowoad Root Radix Isatidis Isatis Indigotica Fort. is of premium quality. Our bulk Chinese herbs are mostly wild harvested but some herbs are farm grown to protect their natural habitats and meet incremental market demands. The harvests of right species at proper maturity are identified by experienced professionals, cleaned, cut or sliced, and dried. Cases, special processing methods such as soaking with rice wine, steaming, roasting are applied as mandated by traditional Chinese medicine traditions to prepare the Chinese herbs to achieve desired properties, enhance efficacy, and reduce toxicity.
Warning
In the course of formulas to enhance each other's desirable action and to minimize any potential side effect. In TCM, Chinese herbs are mostly combined in the context of formulas to enhance each other's desirable action and to minimize any potential side effect.
板蓝根
Naming
Ban Lan Gen (Radix Isatidis)——Xin Xiu Ben Cao (Newly Revised Materia Medica)
Ban Lan Gen Indigowoad Root 板藍根 Radix Isatidis
The Processing of 板蓝根
Origin
The root of biennial herbaceous plant Isatis indigotica Fort. of family Cruciferae.
Location
Shaanxi, Hebei, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui provinces, etc. of China.
Harvest
Collected in autumn.
The actual smell and taste
Light smell, slightly sweet, bitter and astringent taste.
Best quality
Straight, thick and even root, solid body with enough mealiness.
Processing
Sliced and unprocessed.
The Effect of 板蓝根
Property
Bitter, cold; lung, stomach, heart and liver meridians entered.
Actions
Clear heat and remove toxicity, cool blood, alleviate sore throat.
Indications
A. Warm disease and external contraction of wind-heat
Ban Lan Gen and Da Qing Ye are both from the same plant-Isatin, but the medicinal parts are different. They are similar in aspects of properties and effects: clearing heat and purging fire when entering qi system, and clearing heat and cooling blood when entering blood system as well; both of them are widely indicated for each stage of warm diseases, and exterior syndrome of external contraction of wind-heat; they are also commonly combined together in treating mumps, erysipelas and fever with swollen head due to warm-toxicity for mutual reinforcement. Although its action of cooling blood and removing macula is not as good as that of Da Qing Ye, it is specialized in removing toxicity to alleviate sore throat and relieve swelling, so it is suitable for treating initial warm diseases or external contraction of wind-heat characterized by fever and sore throat. For example, it is used in Gan Mao Tui Re Chong Ji from Pharmacopoeia of the People's Republic of China published in 1990; and also it is often combined with herbs good at dispersing wind-heat to improve the effect, such as Bo He, Jin Yin Hua and Lian Qiao, etc. For warm diseases in stage of dual blazing of both qi and blood or heat entering nutrient-blood manifested as high fever and macula, it has the action of clearing heat and removing toxicity, cooling blood and removing macula, and it is often combined with other toxicity-removing and blood-cooling herbs to take effects of clearing heat from both qi and blood systems. For example, it is combined with Huang Qin, Zi Cao and Sheng Di Huang in Shen Xi Dan from Wen Bing Tiao Bian.
B. Swollen and sore throat
It is good at clearing heart and removing toxicity, clearing heat from lung and stomach to alleviate sore throat and dissipate nodulation, and is commonly used in treating red swollen and sore throat, red swelling and pain of both cheeks which are all caused by interior excessive heat-toxicity, attack by epidemic toxicity or wind-heat. It can be used singly or combined with wind-heat-dispersing, toxicity-removing, and sore-throat-alleviating herbs, such as Niu Bang Zi, Xuan Shen and Jie Geng, as in Pu Ji Xiao Du Yin from Dong Yuan Shi Xiao Fang (Dongyuan's Effective Prescription).
In addition, for its actions of clearing heat, removing toxicity, and cooling blood, it is also suitable for treating sores and swollen and pain abscess, red eyes, hematemesis and epistaxis due to blood heat.
Dosage and Administrations
Decoct 15~30 g, or 60~120g as the large dose; or make into pills, powder. Proper dosage is for topical administration.
Quality Assurance
This bulk herb Ban Lan Gen 板蓝根 Indigowoad Root Radix Isatidis Isatis Indigotica Fort. is of premium quality. Our bulk Chinese herbs are mostly wild harvested but some herbs are farm grown to protect their natural habitats and meet incremental market demands. The harvests of right species at proper maturity are identified by experienced professionals, cleaned, cut or sliced, and dried. Cases, special processing methods such as soaking with rice wine, steaming, roasting are applied as mandated by traditional Chinese medicine traditions to prepare the Chinese herbs to achieve desired properties, enhance efficacy, and reduce toxicity.
Warning
In the course of formulas to enhance each other's desirable action and to minimize any potential side effect. In TCM, Chinese herbs are mostly combined in the context of formulas to enhance each other's desirable action and to minimize any potential side effect.
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