puerela should be Pueraria Rx-Gegen ?

[Guest guest]

Hi R Cooper

 

> My Chinese doctor made up a formula for me last week and as he usually

> does, he translated for me the names of the herbs from Chinese to

> English. He wrote one down as " peurela " . This is not a mispelling as

> he has used this one in the past and written it the same way. Does

> anyone know of a different name for this herb? I can't find it in any

> of my books. Thanks, R. Cooper

 

Google found no herb called " puerela " .

 

Your doctor probably has written the name incorrectly - did he mean

Pueraria Rx - Gegen? See:

http://www.pharmun.com/products2/ArticleShow.asp?ArticleID=480

 

Pinyin Name: Gegen; Fenke, Fenge, Gange, Gegen; Yege

 

Latin Name: Peurariae Rx; Puerariae montanae / lobatae / thunbergianae /

pseudohirsutae / thomsonii / tuberosae / mirificae Rx; Dolichos lobatus

 

Common Name: Pueraria; Pueraria Rx; Kudzuvine Rx; Japanese Arrowroot,

Kudsu, Kudzu Vine, Kwaao Khruea, Mealy Kudzu; Part used : Dried Rx

 

Herb Class: Release Exterior~ Cool+Acrid; Scatter Wind Heat

 

Nature: Cool; Acrid; Sweet

 

Channels: SJM-SP-ST; LU

 

Dose: As Dec: 6-15g; Rx is eaten as food

 

has Isoflavone, Isoflavones;

 

Actions: (1) Release Exterior; Clear Heat; Antifever; Scatter Wind Heat;

Make Sweat; Release Muscle; Envoy to neck/nape; (2) Nourish Fluid;

Generate Fluids; Stop Thirst; (3) Clear Heat, Nourish SP; Raise Yangqi;

Raise SJM-SP-ST Qi; (4) Scatter Wind Heat; Vent Rashes; Vent Measles;

Accelerate rash~early stage; (5) Envoy to Yangming Channel; Stop

Diarrhoea; Hypotensor

 

Indications: EPF Attack w fever, headache & neck/nape stiffness & pain;

also used in hypertensive cerebropathy & to relieve S & Ss like headache (1)

Heat/Wind Heat/Wind Cold EPF Attack w fever, cold, flu, sinusitis, myalgia,

muscle spasm, headache, back~pain/stiff, esp back~upper~pain/stiff &

neck~pain/stiff; Damp Heat dysentery/diarrhoea~acute; fever; (2) diabetes w

Fluid Xu & Thirst in Xiaoke (wasting & thirst); Fluid Dryness w Thirst dt ST

Heat; (3) Heat w SP Xu/SJM-SP-ST Qi Sinking w diarrhoea, dysentery;

Yangqi Sinking/SJM-SP-ST Qi Sinking w diarrhoea~acute/chronic dt SP

Qixu; (4) Wind Heat w measles~early stage/unerupted; Wind Heat dysentery

w Heat~Interior; GB~cholelithiasis pain; urticaria, pruritus & psoriasis ; (5)

Yangming (LI-ST) Channel DysFx; HT~CHD/ hypertension w neck/nape stiff

& painful, headache, migraine, dizziness, angina pectoris, arrhythmia,

deafness, tinnitus; Orally, alone/w other Hbs for alcohol hangover

(headache, ST upset, gastritis, dizziness & emesis); manage alcoholism &

drunkenness; hypohidrosis; traumatic injuries;

 

Combos: (1) Exterior Pattern w fever, anhidrosis, headache, stiffness of

neck/nape & back; Gegen+Mahuang, Guizhi, Baishao, etc for

Cold/chilliness~severe; Gegen+Chaihui, Huangqin, Shigao, etc for high

fever; (2) Gegen alone / combined w Hbs to Scatter Heat & Generate Fluids

for Exterior Pattern of febrile disease w thirst / diabetes; (3)

Gegen+Shengma, Baishao, etc for measles~early stage/unerupted; (4)

Gegen+Dangshen, Baizhu, Fuling, etc for diarrhoea dt SP Qixu;

Gegen+Huanglian, Huangqin, etc for diarrhoea / dysentery dt Heat w

Exterior Pattern;

 

Best regards,

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

>

> Your doctor probably has written the name incorrectly - did he mean

> Pueraria Rx - Gegen? See:

>

 

 

Yes, the doctor had misspelled the word. It was ge gen.

 

R.Cooper