In this method, a laser destroys hair follicles with heat. Lasers are prescription devices that should be used only under the direction of a licensed practitioner. If a topical anesthetic product is recommended before a laser hair removal procedure to minimize pain, FDA recommends that consumers discuss with a medical professional the circumstances under which the cream should be used, and whether the use is appropriate.
Those who decide to use a skin-numbing product should follow the directions of a health care provider and consider using a product that contains the lowest amount of anesthetic drugs possible. FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research has received reports of serious and life-threatening side effects after use of large
amounts of skin-numbing products for laser hair removal.
Side effects of laser hair removal can include blistering, discoloration after treatment, swelling, redness, and scarring. Sunlight should be avoided during healing after the procedure.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Fructus Hordei Germinatus
Resource: The germinant fruit of Hordeum vulgare L.,family Gramineae.
Characteristic: Fruit small shuttle-shaped,8-12 mm long,3-4 mm in diameter;surface covered by yellowish husk,with longitudinal veins;a long-lanceolate plumule and several fibrous roots appearing at one end.Sweet in taste,warm in nature,and attributive to spleen and stomach channels.
Pharmacodynamics: 1.Strengthen the stomach and improve digestion:For dyspepsia of starches,vomiting of milk in infants caused by improper feeding,and anorexia due to deficiency of spleen and stomach. 2.Lactifuge:For galactostasis and as lactifuge for breast-feeding women.
Pharmacological: Its decoction promotes the secretion of pepsin and gastric juice.
Usage: Decoction:10-15g;60-120g of fresh sample for lactifuge.
Characteristic: Fruit small shuttle-shaped,8-12 mm long,3-4 mm in diameter;surface covered by yellowish husk,with longitudinal veins;a long-lanceolate plumule and several fibrous roots appearing at one end.Sweet in taste,warm in nature,and attributive to spleen and stomach channels.
Pharmacodynamics: 1.Strengthen the stomach and improve digestion:For dyspepsia of starches,vomiting of milk in infants caused by improper feeding,and anorexia due to deficiency of spleen and stomach. 2.Lactifuge:For galactostasis and as lactifuge for breast-feeding women.
Pharmacological: Its decoction promotes the secretion of pepsin and gastric juice.
Usage: Decoction:10-15g;60-120g of fresh sample for lactifuge.
Radix Ephedrae
Resource: Root of Ephedra sinica Stapf and E.intermedia Schrenk et C.A.Mey.,family Ephedraceae.
Characteristic: Root terete,slightly curved,8-25 cm long,0.5-1.5 cm in diameter.Cortex surface grey-brown,coarse,easily separated,with olngitudinal wrinkles and fibrous root scars;apex sometimes with remained stem base.Cross section showing radial marks.Sweet in taste,mild in nature,and attributive to heart and lung channels.
Pharmacodynamics: Arrest sweating:For spontaneous perspiration,usually used together with Radix Astragali seu Hedysari and Radix Angelicae Sinensis,for night sweat,usually used together with Os Draconis,Concha Ostreae and Radix Rehmanniae;for postpartum sweating,prepared as powder with Concha Ostrae for external use.
Pharmacological: 1.Its extract and its components ephedradine A,B,C and ephedrannin A exert a hypotensive effect and cause Peripheral vasodilatation. 2.Inducing muscular contraction of intestines and uterus.
Usage: Decoction:3-10g.External use:Appropriate amount.
Characteristic: Root terete,slightly curved,8-25 cm long,0.5-1.5 cm in diameter.Cortex surface grey-brown,coarse,easily separated,with olngitudinal wrinkles and fibrous root scars;apex sometimes with remained stem base.Cross section showing radial marks.Sweet in taste,mild in nature,and attributive to heart and lung channels.
Pharmacodynamics: Arrest sweating:For spontaneous perspiration,usually used together with Radix Astragali seu Hedysari and Radix Angelicae Sinensis,for night sweat,usually used together with Os Draconis,Concha Ostreae and Radix Rehmanniae;for postpartum sweating,prepared as powder with Concha Ostrae for external use.
Pharmacological: 1.Its extract and its components ephedradine A,B,C and ephedrannin A exert a hypotensive effect and cause Peripheral vasodilatation. 2.Inducing muscular contraction of intestines and uterus.
Usage: Decoction:3-10g.External use:Appropriate amount.
Semen Sojae Praeparatum
Resource: The fermented seeds of Glycine max(L.)Merr.,family Leguminosae.
Characteristic: The prepared seeds elliptical,somewhat compressed,shrunken,and black in colour,soft.Acrid,sweet and slightly bitter in taste,cold in nature,and attributive to lung and stomach channels.
Pharmacodynamics: 1.Expel the exogenous evils from the body surface:For common cold of wind-heat type,used together with Flos Lonicerae,Herba Menthae,etc.;and with Bulbus Allii Fistulosi for wind-cold type. 2.Get rid of vexation:For later stage of febrile diseases with chest upset and restlessness.
Pharmacological:
Usage: Decoction:10-15g.
Characteristic: The prepared seeds elliptical,somewhat compressed,shrunken,and black in colour,soft.Acrid,sweet and slightly bitter in taste,cold in nature,and attributive to lung and stomach channels.
Pharmacodynamics: 1.Expel the exogenous evils from the body surface:For common cold of wind-heat type,used together with Flos Lonicerae,Herba Menthae,etc.;and with Bulbus Allii Fistulosi for wind-cold type. 2.Get rid of vexation:For later stage of febrile diseases with chest upset and restlessness.
Pharmacological:
Usage: Decoction:10-15g.
Pumex
Resource: The rock from the volcano eruption or the skeleton of Costazia aculeata Canu et Bassler,family Celle
Characteristic: Volcano Rock:Irregular masses,1-7 cm in diameter,surface coarse,grey-white to grey-yellow-brown,occasionally reddish,with pores of unequal sizes.Light in texture,floating on the water.Skeleton:Irregular masses,branching like corals,1-4 cm long,grey-white to greyyellow,surface with small pores,floating on the water.Both are sour in taste,mild in nature,and attributive to lung channel.
Pharmacodynamics: 1.Clear away lung-heat and eliminate phlegm:For cough of phlegm-heat type with yellow and thick sputum,or chronic cough of lung-heat type with bloody sputum. 2.Soften and disperse the lumps:For subcutaneous nodule and scrofula. 3.Promote diuresis and relieve stranguria:For stranguria caused by urinary stone.
Pharmacological:
Usage: Decoction:6-9g.
Characteristic: Volcano Rock:Irregular masses,1-7 cm in diameter,surface coarse,grey-white to grey-yellow-brown,occasionally reddish,with pores of unequal sizes.Light in texture,floating on the water.Skeleton:Irregular masses,branching like corals,1-4 cm long,grey-white to greyyellow,surface with small pores,floating on the water.Both are sour in taste,mild in nature,and attributive to lung channel.
Pharmacodynamics: 1.Clear away lung-heat and eliminate phlegm:For cough of phlegm-heat type with yellow and thick sputum,or chronic cough of lung-heat type with bloody sputum. 2.Soften and disperse the lumps:For subcutaneous nodule and scrofula. 3.Promote diuresis and relieve stranguria:For stranguria caused by urinary stone.
Pharmacological:
Usage: Decoction:6-9g.
Fructus Gardeniae
Resource: Fruit of Gardenia jasminoides Ellis var.radicans(Thunb.)Makino,family Rubiaceae.
Characteristic: Fruit elliptical,1.5-3.5 cm long,red-yellow,with six winged longitudinal angularities;remnant of sepal at the top;base acuminate and thin,with remnant of fruit stalk.Three pseudo-membranes seen when cut open.Seeds flat-ovate,depp red,numerous and gathering into masses.Bitter in taste,cold in nature,and attributive to liver,lung,stomach and triple-jiao channels.
Pharmacodynamics: 1.Purge sthenic fire to relieve vexation:For febrile diseases with irritability,insomnia,and even high fever,coma and delirium. 2.Clear away heat and promote diuresis:For jaundice and stranguria of dampness-heat type. 3.Clear away heat and toxic materials:For skin infection of intense heat type,erysipelas,burn and conjunctivitis. 4.Cool the blood and stop bleeding:For heat-syndrome with hematemesis,hemoptysis,epistaxis,hematuria,hemafecia,metrorrhagia,etc. 5.Remove blood stasis and alleviate pain:For trauma with local swelling and pain(external use).
Pharmacological: 1.The active components such as crocin,crocetin,genipin,or alcoholic extract protect the liver from carbon tetrachloride and increase biliary secretion.Oral use of its decoction in duce gallbaladder contraction. 2.Oral or intraperitoneal use of its decoction and alcoholic extract exerts a sustained hypotensive effect in anaesthetized and un-anaesthetized animals. 3.Hemostatic.
Usage: Decoction:3-9g.External use:Appropriate amount.
Characteristic: Fruit elliptical,1.5-3.5 cm long,red-yellow,with six winged longitudinal angularities;remnant of sepal at the top;base acuminate and thin,with remnant of fruit stalk.Three pseudo-membranes seen when cut open.Seeds flat-ovate,depp red,numerous and gathering into masses.Bitter in taste,cold in nature,and attributive to liver,lung,stomach and triple-jiao channels.
Pharmacodynamics: 1.Purge sthenic fire to relieve vexation:For febrile diseases with irritability,insomnia,and even high fever,coma and delirium. 2.Clear away heat and promote diuresis:For jaundice and stranguria of dampness-heat type. 3.Clear away heat and toxic materials:For skin infection of intense heat type,erysipelas,burn and conjunctivitis. 4.Cool the blood and stop bleeding:For heat-syndrome with hematemesis,hemoptysis,epistaxis,hematuria,hemafecia,metrorrhagia,etc. 5.Remove blood stasis and alleviate pain:For trauma with local swelling and pain(external use).
Pharmacological: 1.The active components such as crocin,crocetin,genipin,or alcoholic extract protect the liver from carbon tetrachloride and increase biliary secretion.Oral use of its decoction in duce gallbaladder contraction. 2.Oral or intraperitoneal use of its decoction and alcoholic extract exerts a sustained hypotensive effect in anaesthetized and un-anaesthetized animals. 3.Hemostatic.
Usage: Decoction:3-9g.External use:Appropriate amount.
Radix Linderae
Resource: The root ruber of Lindera strychnifolia(Sieb.et Zucc.)Vill.,family Lauraceae.
Characteristic: Root tuber cambiform or catenulate,6-15 cm long,1-3 cm in diameter;cork yellow-brown with remains of fibrous roots or their scars.Prepared by crosscutting,section showing light brown and reddish,many annular striae and radial vascular bundles.Aromatic in odour.Acrid in taste,warm in nature,and attributive to stomach,kidney and urinary bladder channels.
Pharmacodynamics:
1.Activate vital energy circulation,expel cold and alleviate pain:For stagnation of cold and vital energy with fullness and pain in the chest and abdomen,dysmenorrhea and colic of cold type.
2.Warm the kidney and eliminate bladder-cold:For deficiency-cold of kidney and urinary bladder with frequency of micturition and discharge of whitish and turbid urine,usually used together with Rhizoma Dioscoreae,Fructus Alpiniae Oxyphyllae(Pill for Decreasing Urination).
Pharmacological: 1.Promoting the secretion of digestive fluid. 2.Accelerating blood coagulation.
Usage: Decoction:3-9g.
Characteristic: Root tuber cambiform or catenulate,6-15 cm long,1-3 cm in diameter;cork yellow-brown with remains of fibrous roots or their scars.Prepared by crosscutting,section showing light brown and reddish,many annular striae and radial vascular bundles.Aromatic in odour.Acrid in taste,warm in nature,and attributive to stomach,kidney and urinary bladder channels.
Pharmacodynamics:
1.Activate vital energy circulation,expel cold and alleviate pain:For stagnation of cold and vital energy with fullness and pain in the chest and abdomen,dysmenorrhea and colic of cold type.
2.Warm the kidney and eliminate bladder-cold:For deficiency-cold of kidney and urinary bladder with frequency of micturition and discharge of whitish and turbid urine,usually used together with Rhizoma Dioscoreae,Fructus Alpiniae Oxyphyllae(Pill for Decreasing Urination).
Pharmacological: 1.Promoting the secretion of digestive fluid. 2.Accelerating blood coagulation.
Usage: Decoction:3-9g.
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