WH Acupuncture & Herbs Centre

This medicinal is the dried root tuber of Peseudostellaria heterophylla(Miq.)Pax ex Pax et Hoffm. (Fam. Caryophyllaceae). It is harested in summer when most leaves have withered away. After removal of its rootlets, it is dried by natural sunlight immediately or after slightly scalding in boiling water and then utilized in its unprocessed form.

[ Medicinal Properties ]: Sweet, slightly bitter, neural; relate to spleen and lung meridians.

[ Medicinal Efficacies ]: Tonify spleen qi ; promote fluid production and nourish lung.

[ Clinical Application ]: 1. Spleen deficiency syndrome, lassitude and anorexia      It is a moderate tonic. To treat anorexia, lassitude, dry mouth and tongue, due to weakness of spleen qi and deficiency of stomach yin, it is combined with Shanyao and Shihu.

2. Insufficiency of qi and yin after disease      To treat spontaneous sweating, thirst, due to insufficiency of qi and yin after febrile disease, it is used in combination with Shengdihuang and Zhimu. For palpitations, insomnia, hyperhydrosis with deficiency-heat, due to deficiency of heart qi and heart yin, it is combined with Wuweizi and Suanzaoren.

3. Dry cough due to lung insufficiency      In this case, it is combined with Beishashen and Maidong.

[ Usage and Dosage ]: 9-30g.

太子参为石竹科植物异叶假繁缕Peseudostellaria heterophylla (Miq.)Pax ex pax et Hoffm.的块根。主产于江苏、安徽、山东等省。夏季茎叶大部分枯萎时采挖，除去须根，置沸水中略烫后晒干或直接晒干，生用。