The difference between Tennantia and Semen Armeniacae is reflected in the source of medicinal materials, sexual flavor and attribution, efficacy, indications, precautions and so on.
1. Source of herbs: Tennant is a traditional Chinese medicine made from the dried tubers of Tennantiaceae, Tennantia heterophylla, or Tennantia northeasternis; Semen xia is a traditional Chinese medicine made from the dried tubers of Semen xiaceae, Tennantiaceae.
2. Flavor and Meridian: Tennant is bitter, pungent, warm and toxic, and can be applied to the lung, liver and spleen meridians; Semixia is pungent, warm and toxic, and can be applied to the spleen, stomach and lung meridians.
3. Effects: Tiannanxing has the effect of dispersing lumps and subduing swelling; Hanxia has the effects of drying dampness and resolving phlegm (dispelling dampness by drying dampness and dissolving phlegm), subduing rebelliousness and stopping vomiting (stopping the upward flow of gastric qi, stopping vomiting), and subduing plaques and dispersing knots (eliminating knots and lumps in the body).
4. Indications: Tiannanxing is used externally to treat carbuncles and swellings, snake and insect bites; Bianxia is used in the treatment of damp phlegm and cold phlegm, wind phlegm and vertigo, phlegm-convulsive headache (headache caused by phlegm obstructing the qi), coughing and wheezing with excessive phlegm and phlegm-drinking, phlegm-drinking and vertigo palpitations (vertigo and palpitations due to phlegm-drinking and evil qi upward), chest and epigastric congestion, vomiting and regurgitating, prune-belly qi (a kind of pharyngeal allergic disease), as well as the treatment of carbuncles and swellings, and phlegm nuclei externally.
5. Precautions: Tiannanxing should be used cautiously in pregnant women; Bianxia should not be used with Chuanwu, Zhichuanwu, Caowu, Zhichaowu and Pseudostemma. In addition, the raw products of both should be taken internally with caution.
If the above symptoms occur, it is recommended to go to the hospital in a timely manner, follow the doctor’s instructions for treatment, do not blindly use drugs, so as not to delay the condition.