Chebula Fruit (Hezi)
| Pharmaceutical Name: | Fructus Chebulae |
| Botanical Name: | Terminalia chebula Retz. Terminalia chebula Retz. Var. tomentella Kurt. |
| Common Name: | Terminalia fruit Chebula fruit |
| Source of Earliest Record: | Yaoxing Lun |
| art Used & Method for Pharmaceutical Preparations: | The ripe fruit is gathered from July to August and dried in the sun. |
| Properties and Taste: | Bitter, sour, astringent, and neutral |
| Meridian: | Lung and large intestine |
| Functions: | To astringe the intestines To astringe the lungs |
| Indications and Combinations: | 1. Chronic diarrhea, chronic dysentery and prolapsed anus: a) Heat syndrome. *Use with Coptis root (Huanglian) and Costus root (Muxiang) in the formula Hezi San. b) Deficiency and cold syndrome. *Use with Dried ginger (Ganjiang) and Poppy capsule (Yingsuqiao). 2. Cough and asthma due to deficiency in lungs or chronic cough with hoarse voice. *Use 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: | This herb is contraindicated in cases with exterior syndrome and during accumulation of damp-heat in the interior. |