Re: Couldn't handle gas/bloating, took some Dexamethazone

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Also Known As:
Areca Nut, Betel Nut, Betel Quid, Pinag, Pinlag. Areca catechu.

Properties: PUNGENT, BITTER - WARM
Meridian: LARGE INTESTINE, STOMACH
Dosage: Dosage: 6 – 12g -USED ALONE 120g.

- kills parasites, tape worms, pinworms, round worms,
blood flukes, helps expel bodies of worms as well
- promote movement of Qi, reduce stagnation – drains down
and unblocks bowels, food accumulation, abdominal distention,
constipation, tenesmus
- promote urination – damp phlegm and malarial disorders

Characteristics

Seed semi-spherical, 1.5-3.5 cm long, base 1.5-3.0 cm in diameter. Surface of spermoderm grey-yellow to red-brown, with reticular grooves; base depressed a prominent hilum visible on the lateral margin. Hard in texture. Prepared as slices, the section showing curved patterns brown alternating with white. Bitter and acrid in taste, warm in nature, and attributive to stomach and large intestine channels.

Pharmacological Action

- As a neurotoxin for tapeworms.
- Arecaidine hydrobromide for eyedrop cau~ miosis.
- Accelerating the secretion of digestive juices and promoting appetite.

REFERENTIAL ADVICE

1.Destroying paracites and removing food stagnancy

The drug can be used in treating various intestinal parasitic diseases such as teniasis, ascariasis, enterobiasis, fasciolopsiasis, etc., with better therapeutic effect on teniasis.It can also be used in combination with other anthelmintics.

2.Descending the adverse flow of Qi and loosing the bowels

The drug can be used in treating stagnation of food and stasis of Qi, abdominal distention and pain, constipation, or tensmus following diarrhea or dysentery, etc., and is often used in combination with Radix et Rhizoma Rhei, Radix Aucklandiae,etc.

3.Inducing diuresis to alleviate edema.

The drug can be used in treating flaccidity of lower limbs and is often used in combination with Fructus Perillae, fructus Euodiae, Rhizoma Zingiberis Recens, etc. In addition, the drug can also be used in treating malaria.

TIPS
Also used in malaria.