Goat egg

Goat egg

(selected Chinese herbal medicines from Simao, Yunnan)

[synonym] egg ginseng.

[source] it is the tuberous root of Alpinia sibiricum.

[plant morphology] egg

Herbs perennial, twining, slender, with milk. The root tubers are fleshy, white and ovoid. Leaves simple, alternate or opposite, broadly linear lanceolate, 3-5 cm long and 0.5-1 cm wide, apex acuminate, base rounded. Flowers solitary at the top of stem, blue, bell shaped; calyx, petals each 5-lobed; stamens 5; ovary inferior. Capsule.

Born in pine forest, miscellaneous wood forest. It is distributed in Yunnan and other places.

[collection] collection in winter. Wash and dry or steam to dry.

Sweet and smooth.

Functions and indications: moisten the lung, generate fluid and benefit the spleen and stomach. After treatment, postnatal weakness, tuberculosis, tracheitis, loss of appetite, palpitation and sweating.

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang.

[selection] body deficiency and palpitation after treatment: one or two eggs. Stewed lean pork.