Gua Di瓜蒂
Pedicellus MeloMelon Stalk
- Légèrement toxique
Autres nomsPedicellus Cucumeris · Melon Pedicle
- Catégorie
- ** Herbs that Relieve Coughing and Wheezing (Anti-Asthmatics) **Herbs that Induce Vomiting (Emetics)**
- Nature
- froid
- Saveur
- amer
- Tropisme
- Estomac
- Posologie
- 1.5–6 g
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Doses usuelles
- Posologie
- 1.5–6 g
- Pills
- 0.3–1 g
Actions & indications
- Induces vomiting to relieve Phlegm-Heat or retained food
- Accumulation above the diaphragm when vomiting is the preferred treatment, including Phlegm-Heat that is constrained in the chest with seizures, mania, throat Bi, wheezing, irritability and/or insomnia
- Retained food in the Stomach with distention and chest and epigastric pain (may be used alone)
- Dispels Damp-Heat and relieves jaundice
- Damp-Heat jaundice when Dampness predominates
- Intranasally, it treats recalcitrant jaundice of the face and eyes with headache and nasal congestion due to Dampness constrained in the head
Contre-indications
- Contraindicated in pregnancy and the postpartum period.
- Contraindicated in debilitated patients.
- Contraindicated in hematemesis or hemoptysis.
- Avoid unless there is Excess or Excess Heat present.
- Contraindicated in bleeding due to Deficiency.
Associations
Induces vomiting to treat Phlegm or retained food above the diaphragm; also for the very earliest stage of food poisoning and for Hot Phlegm
Long-standing rhinitis
- Rock Brown Sugar
Enhances the vomiting effect
Notes
- This herb is used specifically to induce vomiting and provoke salivation and tearing, giving a pathogenic influence a route out of the body.
- It may be used by itself for Food Stagnation.
- Bensky's earlier edition placed this herb in the "Herbs that Expel Phlegm by Inducing Vomiting" category.
- Should vomiting become continuous, 0.1-0.15g of Moschus She Xiang serves as the antidote.