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Chebula fruit (Hezi)
Pharmaceutical Name: Fructus Chebulae
Botanical Name: 1. Terminalia chebula Retz.;
2. Terminalia chebula Retz. var. tomentella
Kurt.
Common Name: Terminalia fruit, Chebula fruit
Source of Earliest Record: Yaoxing Lun
Part Used & Method for Pharmaceutical
Preparations: The ripe fruit is gathered from
July to August and dried in the sun.
Properties & Taste: Bitter, sour, astringent
and neutral
Meridians: Lung and large intestine
Functions:
1. To astringe the intestines;
2. To astringe the lungs
Indications & Combinations:
1. Chronic diarrhea, chronic dysentery and
prolapsed anus: a) heat syndromeChebula fruit
(Hezi) is used with Coptis root (Huanglian)
and Costus root (Muxiang) in the formula Hezi
San; b) deficiency and cold syndromeChebula
fruit (Hezi) is used with Dried ginger (Ganjiang)
and Poppy capsule (Yingsuqiao).
2. Cough and asthma due to deficiency in
lungs or chronic cough with hoarse voice.
Chebula fruit (Hezi) is used with Platycodon
root (Jiegeng), Licorice root (Gancao) and
Apricot seed (Xingren).
Dosage: 3-10 g (The raw herb is used for
hoarse voice, the baked herb for diarrhea.)
Cautions & Contraindications: This herb
is contraindicated in cases with exterior
syndrome and during accumulation of damp-heat
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