lei gong teng

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Yehuda & everyone else:

 

from my _New Century Chinese-English Dictionary of

_ (Beijing: People's Military Medical

Press, 2004):

 

lei gong teng:

Common threewingut root (Caulis Fibraureae). The

wooden part of the root of Tripterygium wilfordii

Hook. f. Flavor: bitter & pungent. Property: cool &

noxious. Meridian tropisms: the liver & kidney.

Effects: expelling wind & dampness, activating blood

circulation, removing obstruction from the meridians,

relieving swelling, checking pain & killing parasites.

Indications: RA, rheumatic arthritis, glomerular

nephrosis, glandularis erythematosa, dry snydrome of

the eyes & mouth, eczema, psoriasis, leprosy, scabies,

stubborn tinea.

 

According to the Mayway herb website, the FDA has

banned its importation into the States.

 

--chris

 

> Message: 1

> Wed, 24 Nov 2004 19:28:29 -0800

> Yehuda L Frischman <

> lei gong teng

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>

> Alon,

>

> I found lei gong teng (Thunder god vine, Tripterygii

> Wilfordi Radix,

> Folium et Flos) in my Wiseman " Dictionary of Chinese

> Medicine " , but I

> neither found it in Bensky, nor in Yeung. Can you

> tell us about it?

>

>

>

> " When you see someone doing something wrong, realize

> that it was brought

> before

> you because you did something similar. Therefore,

> do not judge him,

> judge yourself. "

>

> The Baal Shem Tov Hakodesh

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[Guest guest]

lei gong teng:

Common threewingut root (Caulis Fibraureae). The

wooden part of the root of Tripterygium wilfordii

Hook. f. Flavor: bitter & pungent. Property: cool &

noxious. Meridian tropisms: the liver & kidney.

>>>>>If I am not mistaken lei gong teng is a newly added herb to the

pharmacopoeia and I always wandered who came up with its TCM properties and

channel tropism's