Overview of Arisaema

Arisaema consanguineum is the name of a Chinese herbal medicine. This product is produced by processing the superfine powder of processed arisaema and the bile of cattle, sheep or pigs, or by fermenting the superfine powder of raw arisaema and the bile of cattle, sheep or pigs. The effects and functions are: clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, calming wind and calming the nerves. It is used for cough due to phlegm heat, yellow and thick bloody sputum, stroke with phlegm, mania and epilepsy.

Arisaema ciliata is made from the superfine powder of Arisaema ciliata and the bile of cattle, sheep or pigs, or is made from the superfine powder of raw Arisaema ciliata and the bile of cattle, sheep or pigs through fermentation. Arisaema consanguineum is in the form of small square or cylindrical pieces, yellow-brown, gray-brown or black-brown, hard in texture, with a slightly fishy smell and a slightly bitter taste.

Arisaema consanguineum has the functions of clearing away heat and resolving phlegm. Arisaema consanguineum is bitter and cool in nature. The bitterness can remove dampness, relieve cough and resolve phlegm, while the coldness can clear away heat and detoxify. It can be used to treat cough due to phlegm and fire, dizziness due to headache, phlegm congestion caused by stroke, drowsiness in the elderly, palpitations after childbirth, insomnia due to phlegm and fire, and other symptoms.

Arisaema consanguineum can reduce heat, relieve cough, resolve phlegm, and calm epilepsy. It is used to treat stroke, phlegm, epilepsy, cough with phlegm and fire, and dizziness caused by headache.

For treating wind-cold, wind-heat and toxic congestion in children, stagnation of the diaphragm, cooling the heart and calming the nerves: 50g of Starch Starch, 10 pieces of gold and silver foil, 7.5g of Cinnabar, one character each of borneol and Sanguisorba officinalis. Grind them together into a very fine powder, add refined honey and make into pills as big as a chicken head. Take one pill each time, dissolve it in bamboo leaf water.

Descending Qi, relieving cough and reducing phlegm, relieving cough and relieving asthma: Arisaema (fried with sand) 30g, Apricot kernel 60g, Pinellia (fried with sand) 60g, Citrus aurantium (fried) 60g, Bupleurum (fried with wine) 60g, Fritillaria 30g, Linderae scabra (fried) 30g, Platycodon grandiflorum 60g, Perilla seed 30g, Trichosanthes seed 60g, Poria 60g, Radish seed (fried) 30g, Coltsfoot flower (fried) 30g, Coix seed 60g, Licorice root 30g. For oral administration, take 6g of water-honey pills each time, or 1 large honey pill each time, twice a day.

For treating children who are unconscious due to phlegm, drooling, cramps in hands and feet: 75g of Chen Danxing, 50g each of rhinoceros horn and antelope horn, 35g of raw dragon tooth, 25g of white mustard seed, and 5g of cinnabar. Old rice soup balls, gold foil paper clothes. For clinical use, rub one pill on the chest, back and navel.

To treat asthma caused by phlegm and saliva: 15 grams each of Arisaema consanguineum and Rhizoma Dictamni, 2.5 grams of realgar, 2.5 grams of cinnabar, 2 grams each of bezoar and Sanguisorba officinalis. Grind them into powder, and make into pills with licorice water, as big as sycamore seeds. Take two pills each time, with slightly cooled ginger and sugar water.

Put the raw Arisaema in cold water and rinse repeatedly until the spicy smell is gone, then grind it into fine powder. Also, take an equal amount of ox bile that has been filtered out and poured into a copper pot, and mix it with Arisaema powder. After the bile is completely digested and absorbed, and dried in the sun, put it into a mortar and beat it. Cut it into small pieces and expose it to wind, sun and dew at night until there is no fishy smell. One method is to take 1 jin of arisaema powder, add 1 jin of ox bile, stir, dry in the sun and wind, boil, and cut into small pieces. In the second year, add another pound of ox bile, stir, expose to the sun and dry. In the third year, add 500 grams of ox bile, stir, and expose to the sun to dry. The color gradually turns black and the fishy smell gradually fades away.