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白蒺藜
Naming
Ji Li (Fructus Tribuli)——Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (Shen Nong’s Herbal)
Ji Li Puncturevine Caltrop Fruit Bai Ji Li 蒺藜 Fructus Tribuli
The Processing of 白蒺藜
Origin
The dry ripe fruit of Tribulus terestris L. of family Zygophyllaceae.
Location
Henan, Hebei and Shandong provinces and so on in China.
Harvest
Collected in autumn when fruit is ripe.
The actual smell and taste
No bad smell, bitter, pungent taste.
Best quality
Even, full, firm and pale.
Processing
Cut the plant, dry in the sun, take fruit, grind off hard thorns and remove impurities. Stir-bake until it turns yellow or stir-baked with salt water.
The Effect of 白蒺藜
Property
Bitter, pungent, slightly salty; liver meridian entered.
Actions
Pacify liver and soothe liver, dispel wind and improve vision.
Indications
A. Syndrome of liver yang hyperactivity
It has actions of pacifying liver for the hyperactivity of liver yang. For dizziness, headache due to liver yang hyperactivity, it is often combined with herbs to pacify liver, such as Gou Teng, Ju Hua and Zhen Zhu Mu and so on.
B. Stagnation of liver qi
Being pungent, dispersing and with liver meridian entered property, it can soothe liver. For liver qi stagnation, distending pain in chest and hypochondria, it is often combined with herbs to reinforce the actions of soothing liver, regulating qi and alleviating pain, such as Chai Hu, Xiang Fuand Qing Pi and so on. For agalactia, distending pain in breast due to stagnation of liver qi, it is used singly in powder, or combined with meridian-dredging and lactation-promoting herbs, such as Chuan Shan Jia and Wang Bu Liu Xing and so on.
C. Blood-shot eyes, nebula, vision disturbed ophthalmopathy due to wind-heat invasion
For blood-shot eyes with swelling and pain, hyperdacryosis and profuse eye secretion due to wind-heat or nebula and vision-disturbed ophthalmopathy, it is often combined with liver-clearing and vision-improving herbs, such as Ju Hua, Jue Ming Zi and Man Jing Zi and so on.
D. Rubella with pruritus Jing Zi and so on.
It can dispel wind and relieve itching. For rubella with pruritus, it is often combined with wind-dispelling and itching-relieving herbs, such as Fang Feng, Chan Tui and Ku Shen and so on. For dryness of skin and pruritus due to blood deficiency with generation of wind, it is combined with herbs to nourish blood, moisten dryness, dispel wind and relieve itching, such as He Shou Wu, Dang Gui and Fang Feng and so on.
Dosage and Administrations
Decoct 6~10g.
Quality Assurance
This bulk herb Bai Ji Li 白蒺藜 Puncturevine Caltrop Fruit Fructus Tribuli is of premium quality. Our bulk Chinese herbs are mostly wild harvested but some herbs are farm grown to protect their natural habitats and meet incremental market demands. The harvests of right species at proper maturity are identified by experienced professionals, cleaned, cut or sliced, and dried. Cases, special processing methods such as soaking with rice wine, steaming, roasting are applied as mandated by traditional Chinese medicine traditions to prepare the Chinese herbs to achieve desired properties, enhance efficacy, and reduce toxicity.
Warning
In the course of formulas to enhance each other's desirable action and to minimize any potential side effect. In TCM, Chinese herbs are mostly combined in the context of formulas to enhance each other's desirable action and to minimize any potential side effect.