| Modern Application: 現代應用： | Treating chyluria: she gan 15 g, boiled with water and add some sugar to taste. Make into 3 serving per day. Or make it into pills with water. Take 4 g each time, 3 times per day. 10 days is one therapy period. For chronic sickness, add chuan xiong 9 g, chi shao 12 g. For blood in the urine add sheng di, xian he cao 15 g each. Result: Treated 104 patients. Healed: 94 patients. Not effective: 10 patients. Among the healed, 9 had relapses within 1 to 6 months. After continuing with the above formula for one therapy period, all healed and no relapses. 治療乳糜尿：射幹15 克，水煎，加白糖適量。每天分三次服。或制成水丸。每次服4克。每 天三次。10天為一療程。病程長者加川芎9克，赤芍12克；血尿者加生地，仙鶴草各15克。共治療乳糜尿104例，痊愈94例，無效10例。痊愈 者之中有9例1～6月復發。繼續服上藥一療程後未再復發。[1] |
Pharmaceutical name: 英文藥名﹕ | Rhizoma belamcandae |
Botanical name: 學名﹕ | Belamcanda chinensis (L.) DC. |
Pron. in Japanese: 日語發音﹕ | yakan |
Pron. in Korean: 韓語發音﹕ | sagan |
Pron. in Cantonese: 粵音﹕ | se6 gon3 |
Other Names: 別名 ﹕ | wu shan 烏扇，wu pu 烏蒲 ，huang yuan 黃遠 ，wu sha 烏萐 ，ye gan 夜幹 ，wu sha 烏翣，wu chui 烏吹，cao jian 草薑，gui shan 鬼扇 ，feng yi 鳳翼，xian ren zhang 仙人掌，zi jin niu 紫金牛 ，ye xuan hua 野萱花，bian zhu 扁竹 ，di bian zhu 地萹竹 ，jiao jian cao 較剪草，huang hua bian xu 黃花扁蓄，ka hou jian 開喉箭，huang zhi mu 黃知母 ，jiao jian lan 較剪蘭，jian dao gu 剪刀梏 ，leng shui dan 冷水丹，leng shui hua 冷水花 ，bian zhu lan 扁竹蘭 ，jin hu die 金蝴蝶，jin jiao jian 金絞剪 ，zi liang jiang 紫良薑，tie bian dan 鐵扁擔 ，liu jia hua 六甲花，san ba cao 扇把草，yu ci cao 魚翅草 ，san pu san 山蒲扇，jian dao cao 剪刀草，lao jun san 老君扇，gao shou shan 高搜山，feng huang cao 鳳凰草 處方名：射幹，寸幹 Prescription names: she gan 射幹，cun gan 寸幹. |
Common Name: 英文名﹕ | blackberry lily rhizome |
Distribution: 產地﹕ | |
Properties (characteristics)﹕ 性味﹕ | cold, bitter, slightly toxic. 寒 ，苦，有小毒。 |
Channels (meridians) entered: 歸經﹕ | lung 肺 |
| Medical functions: 藥理﹕ | |
Actions & Indications: 主治﹕ | being used in swollen and painful throat, cough with wheezing, abundance of phlegm, tuberculosis of lymph nodes, carbuncles and boils.[2] 治咽 喉腫痛，咳逆上氣，痰涎壅盛，瘰鬁結核，瘧母，閉經，癰腫瘡毒。 |
Chemical ingredients: 化學成份﹕ | |
Dosage: 用 量﹕ | |
Samples of formulae: 處方 舉例﹕ | yin qiao san 銀翹散 |
Modern Research: 現代研究﹕ | Phytoestrogens Derived from Belamcanda Chinensis Have an Antiproliferative Effect on Prostate Cancer Cells in Vitro 在體外實驗，射干的根莖中提取的鳶尾黃素可抑制前列腺癌細胞的生長。在動物實驗 中，鳶尾黃素也能起到減緩前列腺癌細胞擴散的作用。
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Toxicity & Cautions: 毒素與禁忌﹕ | this herb may cause diarrhea. Not to use during pregnancy or no infection with heat, or in cases of pixu (spleen deficient) with diarrhea. 本品易致瀉。孕婦忌用，無實火，脾 虛便溏者不 宜用。 |