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[English Name] Obscured Homalomena Rhizome
[Chinese Name] 千年健  
[Pinying Name] Qiannianjian  
[Latin Name] Homalomenae Rhizoma  
[Genera] Araceae
[Efficacy] qufengshiyao
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[Alias]  
[Source]  
[Plant morphology]  
[Distribution]  
[Gathering and processing]  
[Characteristics]  
[Ecology]     It grows in the valley and jungle prose forest hillside and bushes, at the altitude between 80 to 1100 metres.  
[Chemical composition]  
[Pharmacological activities]

1. Antihistamine: Alcohol extract can antagonismt tracheal smooth muscle contraction induced by histamine[1].

2. Anticoagulation: Water extract show anticoagulated blood action[2].

3. Antibiosis and Antiviruses: Volatile oil inhibit brucella groeth[3]. Water extract show antiviruses on herpes simplex virus[4].

4. Anti-inflammatory and Analgesia: Methanolic extract show anti non-specificity inflammation and analgesia activity. Its wines show similar activity also[5,6].

5. Other Effect: It can inhibit Calcium Channel Blockers acceptors and Angiotensin Receptors[7].

 
[Clinical trial]

Qiannianjian (homalomena occulta)

Heel pain: qiannianjian(homalomenaocculta) 15g, fuzi(monkshood) 15g, niuxi(radix achyranthis bidentatae) 10g,white wine 100ml. Add 500ml water in a enamel basin, join fuzi(monkshood) inand boiling 20 min(high heat), add radix achyranthis bidentatae, homalomenaocculta boiling 10 min(slow fire), then add50ml white wine to make " Warm meridian lotion". Soak 15 min, 2times a day. Each agent served 3days, thenext use of the warm meridian lotion after the first time heated to boil andadd white wine 10mL. 9 daysa course.1-3 courses of a treatment. Treat 46 cases, cured 16 cases, significanteffective in 22 cases, effective in 6 cases, and 2 cases were invalid. Thetotal effective rate was 96% [1].

 
[Properties]  
[Medical and other Uses]  
[Dosage]  
[Cautions]  
[Traditional usage] Pain, spam and numbness on tendons and bones due to wind-cold  
[Toxicological studies]  
[Pharmaceutical preparations]  
[References]

Pharmacologic Actions:

[1] Xiang Rende, Yao Zhicheng, Fu Xiaohong, et al. Chinese Traditional and Herbal Drugs, 1985,16(2):22.

[2] Ou Xingchang, Zhang Jianxing. Chinese Traditional and Herbal Drugs, 1987,16(4):21.

[3] Institute of Materia Medica,Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. The Chinese Materia Medica vol 2. 2ed. Beijing: People’s Medical Publishing House,1982:253.

[4] Zheng Minshi, Li Hua, Han Jiping. Modern Journal of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, 1990,10(1):39.

[5] Yi Jianwen. Journal of Chinese Medicinal Materials, 1993,16(10):37.

[6] Chen Guangliang. Liu Lixin. Chinese Journal of Primary Medicine and Pharmacy, 2000,7(4):283.

[7] Wang Xu, Han Guiqiu, Li Rongzhi, et al. Journal of Peking University(Health Sciences), 1986,18(1):31.