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Xạ can is a "heat-clearing and detoxifying" medicine that is bitter in taste, cold in nature, slightly toxic, and enters the two Liver meridians of Foot Jueyin and Lung meridians of Hand Taiyin.

The fan palm tree is often grown as an ornamental plant or medicine everywhere in our country. Its scientific name is Belamcanda sinensis (L) DC. It is a herbaceous shrub with long rhizomes that grow close to the ground and are about 0.5m high.

The leaves grow straight and are arranged in two rows on a flat surface like a "fan", the flowers are orange-yellow with red spots. The capsules have horizontal stripes, the seeds are dark green, spherical, and shiny.

According to oriental medicine, the medicinal herb "Xạ can" is the rhizome of the fan palm tree, usually dug up in spring or autumn; cut off the small roots, dry them in the sun or oven, when using, soak in rice water for one or two days to soften; slice thinly, dry them in the sun or oven and use gradually. Xạ can is a "heat-clearing and detoxifying" medicine with a bitter taste, cold properties, slightly toxic, entering the two meridians of the Liver, Foot-Jueyin, and Lung, Hand-Taiyin. It has the effect of clearing heat, detoxifying, dispersing blood, expectorating, sore throat, and coughing up phlegm; used to treat sore throat, phlegm in the throat. Use 3-6g per day in the form of a decoction. Or pound 10-20g of fresh root with a few grains of salt, squeeze out the juice, swallow it gradually; apply the residue externally. Xạ can is slightly toxic, so people with weak spleen and stomach, children under 7 years old, and pregnant women should not use it. Below are some medicinal recipes of Xạ can:

-Treatment of chronic pharyngitis, granular pharyngitis:Take a big toe-sized fan root, wash it, roast it (if not roasted it will burn your throat), crush it with about 10g of salt, then put it in a tightly sealed jar. Take it out and hold it in your mouth 3-5 times a day; continuously for 3-5 days; you can chew and swallow both the pulp and the juice.

-Treatment of acute pharyngitis:Xạ can (8-10g), boil in water, divide into several times to drink during the day; when drinking, you can add sugar or honey to make it easier to drink; at the same time, pound the root or leaves and apply to the painful area on the neck.

-Treatment of sore throat:Xạ can (4 g), kinh giới (16 g), kim ngan, scrophularia, sinh dia (12 g each); peppermint, eclipta, tangerine peel (8 g each). Boil and drink one dose per day.

-Treat sore throat, cough with phlegm:Xạ can (6 g), sâm đại hành (15 g), ophiopogon (15 g), cát cánh (6 g). Boil and drink one dose per day.

-Treatment of acute tonsillitis:Atractylodes Rhizome (6 g); honeysuckle, Eclipta prostrata, dandelion, each (16 g); Scrophularia ningpoensis, Rehmannia glutinosa, and Chinese clematis root (12 g); Mint, Arctium lappa, each (8 g); Platycodon grandiflorum (6 g). Boil and drink one dose per day.

-Treatment of symptoms of ascites, large abdomen, malaise, dark skin:Fresh musk, crushed, squeezed to get the juice to drink, only when it helps with urination.

-Treatment of cough, asthma, cold cough:Atractylodes Rhizome (10 g), Pinellia (10 g), Atractylodes Rhizome (10 g), Fritillaria (10 g), Chinese date (10 g), fresh ginger (10 g), Ephedra (7 g), Schisandra (3 g), Asarum (3 g). Boil in water to drink.

According to Vietnam Agriculture - NT