The exterior of good Lajiao is very lustrous. It is dark red or yellowish-red. (TN)
Official compendium
JP XVIII, CP (2020 ed.)
Clinical application
As a skin stimulator, Lajiao is applied externally for neuralgia and muscle ache. It is used as a spice and a raw material for red pepper tincture (stomachic) or red peeper salicylate extract (hair growth tonic).
Medical system
Folk medicine
Drug effect in traditional medicine
Beneficial effect
[Property & Flavor] Hot; pungent.
[Meridians Tropism] Heart and spleen meridians.
[Actions] To warm the middle energizer to dissipate cold, increase the appetite and promote digestion.
[Indications] Cold stagnation with abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea and dysentery, frostbite.
Chemical constituent
Other aliphatic and related compounds (*C1):
Capsianside A
JP18: The 18th edition of the Japanese Pharmacopoeia.
CP2020: Pharmacopoeia of the People's Republic of China 2020 edi.
C1) The Encyclopedia of Wakan-Yaku with Color Pictures Vol. I, pp 197-199.
Remarks
Lajiao originally came from Central America. There are many domesticated species.