Phragmites communis

Background

Ganlugen ¸É«¸ù Huolugen »î«¸ù Weigen έ¸ù Weijing έ¾¥ Xianlugen ÏÊ«¸ù Chinese Name (pinyin): Lugen

Chinese Name  :

Common Name  :Reed Rhizoma

Specific Name  : Rhizoma phragmitis

Scientific Name:
Collection  : The drug is collected all year round, removed from buds, fibrous root and membranaceous leaf. It is use in fresh or dried in the sun.

Description  : Rhizoma Phragmatis (fresh): Long cylindrical, some slightly compressed, varying in length. 1 - 2 cm in diameter. Externally yellowish white, lustrous, the peel loose and exfoliated. Nodes annular, bearing remains of roots and bud scars. Texture light and tough, flexible. Fracture yellowish white, hollowed, walls 1 - 2 mm thick ,showing small pores arranged in a ring. Odorless and taste sweetish.Rhizoma Phragmatis (dried): Compressed cylindrical. Nodes relatively hard, internodes longitudinally wrinkled.

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Processing  : Eliminate foreign matter, wash clean, cut into sections or dry in the sun after cutting.

Action  : To remove heat, to promote the production of body fluid, to relieve emesis, and to alleviate dysuria.

Indication  : intense thirst in febrile diseases; vomiting or retching due to heat in the stomach; heat in the lung with cough; lung abscess; urinary tract infection with difficult painful urination

Precautions  :

Dosage  : 15 to 30 g; 30 to 60 g of the fresh rhizome to be decocted or pounded for juice.

Storage  : Preserve in a dry place for dried drug, or in wet sand for fresh drug.

Evidence or the Use of Phragmites communis in the Treatment of Epilepesy

1st Five Results: pubmed search

Min Fang, Ling-Yao Kong, Guang-He Ji, Feng-Lan Pu, You-Zhu Su, Yu-Fei Li, Michael Moore, Merlin Willcox, Jeanne Trill, Xiao-Yang Hu, Jian-Ping Liu
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Front Pharmacol: 2024, 15;1242525
[PubMed:38510651] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P e)

Kunthida Phutthacharoen, Syeda J Khalid, Hedda Schrey, Kevin D Hyde, Marc Stadler, Sherif S Ebada
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ACS Omega: 2023, 8(44);41689-41695
[PubMed:37970032] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I e)

Yuxuan He, Jin Qian, Yuanyuan Li, Peifang Wang, Bianhe Lu, Yin Liu, Yuhang Zhang, Feng Liu
Responses of Phragmites communis and its rhizosphere bacteria to different exposure sequences of molybdenum disulfide and levofloxacin.
Environ Pollut: 2023, 335;122273
[PubMed:37506800] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Zehao Zhang, Jingkuan Sun, Tian Li, Pengshuai Shao, Jinzhao Ma, Kaikai Dong
Plants changed the response of bacterial community to the nitrogen and phosphorus addition ratio.
Front Plant Sci: 2023, 14;1168111
[PubMed:37051075] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P e)

Shanshan Zhai, Jianqiang Qian, Qun Ma, Zhimin Liu, Chaoqun Ba, Zhiming Xin, Liang Tian, Lu Zong, Wei Liang, Jinlei Zhu
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Plants (Basel): 2022, 11(23);
[PubMed:36501231] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P e)