桂林西瓜霜

桂林西瓜霜

Chinese

		Cinnamonum cassia; Guangxi Autonomous Region (abbrev.)	woods; forest	west	melon; claw; gourd melon; claw; gourd; squash	frost
simp. and trad. (桂林西瓜霜)		桂	林	西	瓜	霜

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): guìlín xīguāshuāng

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄟˋ ㄌㄧㄣˊ ㄒㄧ ㄍㄨㄚ ㄕㄨㄤ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: guìlín xīguāshuāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄟˋ ㄌㄧㄣˊ ㄒㄧ ㄍㄨㄚ ㄕㄨㄤ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gueylin shiguashuang
    • IPA ^(key): /ku̯eɪ̯⁵¹ lin³⁵ ɕi⁵⁵ ku̯ä⁵⁵ ʂu̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

Noun

桂林西瓜霜

1. A grey-green powder used orally or externally in traditional Chinese medicine "to remove toxic heat, to promote subsidence of swelling and alleviate pain when there is painful swelling of the throat, ulcers in the mouth and on the tongue, painful swelling or bleeding of the gingiva, tonsillitis, aphtha, children’s thrush, scald and light fire burns, bleeding due to injury, acute and chronic laryngopharyngitis, tonsillitis, stomatitis and ulcer in the oral cavity".

Guilin Xiguashuang has the following herbal ingredients:

Name	Chinese (S)
Mirabilitum Citrulli Preparatum	西瓜霜
Borax (calcined)	硼砂 (煅)
Cortex Phellodendri	黄柏
Rhizoma Coptidis	黄连
Radix Sophorae Tonkinensis	山豆根
Rhizoma Belamcandae	射干
Bulbus Fritillariae Thunbergii	浙贝母
Indigo Naturalis	青黛
Borneolum Syntheticum	冰片
Fructus Sapindi (charred)	无患子皮 (炭)
Radix et Rhizoma Rhei	大黄
Radix Scutellariae	黄芩
Radix Glycyrrhizae	甘草
Mentholum	薄荷脑

References

• State Pharmacopoeia Commission of the PRC (2005). "Pharmacopoeia of The People's Republic of China (Volume I)". Chemical Industry Press. →ISBN.