Broom Cypress Fruit (Difuzi)

Broom Cypress Fruit (Difuzi)

Pharmaceutical Name: Fructus Kochiae
Botanical Name: Kochia scoparia (L.) Schrad.
Common Name:Kochia fruit
Broom cypress fruit
Source of Earliest Record: Shennong Bencao Jing
art Used & Method for Pharmaceutical Preparations: When the fruit ripens in autumn, it is gathered and dried in the sun.
Properties and Taste: Bitter and cold
Meridian: Urinary bladder
Functions: Heart, spleen and lung
Indications and Combinations: 1.     Damp-heat in the urinary bladder manifested as dysuria, painful urination, frequent urination and urgency of micturition.
*Use with herbs that clear heat and promote urination, including Talc (Huashi), and Plantain seed (Cheqianzi).

2.  Eczema and scabies.
*Use with Phellodendron bark (Huangbai), Flavescent sophora root (Kushen) and Dittany bark (Baixianpi).
Dosage: 10-15 g