Storax

 Styrax Liquidus

Common Name: Storax - Styrax is a genus of about 130 species of large shrubs or small trees in the family Styracaceae, mostly native to warm temperate to tropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with the majority in eastern and southeastern Asia, but also crossing the equator in South America. Common names include styrax, or the more ambiguous storax, snowbell, and benzoin.

• Scientific Name: Styrax Liquidus
• Latin Name: Liquidambar orientalis Mill
• Chinese Name: Su He Xiang
• Family: Hamamelidaceae
• Type: plant
• Natural Distribution: Africa, India and Turkey
• Collection.Time: anytime

Preparation: the resin is squeezed out, dissolved in alcohol, filtered and made into refined storax after distilling off the alcohol

Storage: stored in air-tight containers and kept in a dark cool place

Part Used: resin

• Nature.Flavour: pungent
• Nature.Property: warm
• Class: medicines for inducing resuscitation
• Meridians: heart and spleen
• Actions: inducing resuscitation, removing the pathogens of fetid odour, dispersing cold and alleviating pain
• Indications - Symptom: sudden faint
• Indications - Symptom: cold pain in the chest

Related Drugs - Ulcers, Herpes outbreaks: Musk, Clove and Benzoin

Related Drugs Parts used with - Pain: Cyperus rhizome, Corydalis tuber

Dosage and administration: 0.3-1g, used in pill or powder

Warning: should not be used in heat blockage syndrome

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