Bing Lang
| Bing Lang in TCM:Explore the properties of Bing Lang according to Chinese
Nutrition and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM):
Factoids:
English Name: areca seed, betel nut
Pharmaceutical Name: Semen Arecae
Properties: acrid, bitter, warm
Temperature: warm
Channels: LI, ST
Flavors: bitter, pungent
Special Properties:
circulates qi, expels parasites, resolves food stagnation
Actions / Indications:
- Kills Parasites (best for tapeworms - especially
numbs the head of tape worm, also for intestinal flukes, pinworms, roundworms,
hookworms, blood flukes: downward draining action helps to expel intestinal
parasites)
- Promotes movement of qi; reduces accumulations (food
accumulation, stagnant qi with abdominal distension or bloating; constipation,
dysentary, tenesmus)
- Soothes Nausea, Promotes urination; checks malarial disorders
(relieves N&V to improve patient compliance with taking herbs; damp
leg qi; symptoms of damp-phlegm malarial disorders; used in combination
for edema)
Special Notes:
- Pharmacologically, Bing Lang is considered to be antiparasitic, antihypertensive,
and gastrointestinal (increases gastric acid and appetite)
- Herb-drug interaction with antipsychotics: extrapyramidal effects
may occur
- Bing Lang is used to reduce nausea from Chang Shan when combined with
Bing Lang to treat malaria
Contraindications:
- (cc: pregnancy)
- (cc: caution in sinking of middle jiao qi)
- (note: often used with nan gua zi)
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