Properties: Sweet, cold, salty
Meridans Entered:
Primary: Heart and Liver
Traditional Actions/Indications:
- Sedates the Heart, quiets the Spirit, calms the Liver, extinguishes Wind, settles convulsions, stops spasms, clears Heat and resolves toxicity
High fevers, impaired consciousness, incoherent speech, mania, delirium and collapse from Warm pathogen diseases, Liver Yang Rising, or Phlegm-Heat Obstructing the Orifices
- Calms and anchors Liver Yang
Dizziness from Liver Yang Rising Recently used for hypertension from Liver Yang Rising or Liver Fire
Suggested Daily Dosage: 9-15g in decoction.
Cautions: It is contraindicated for deficiency-cold without fire-toxin.
Animal products are prohibited from use in the UK under the Medicines Act 1968 ch. 67 which restricts herbalists to the use of plant products only.
Turtles may also act as viral reservoirs and have been proposed as the potential intermediate host for coronavirus between bats and humans (Liu et al., 2020).
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Reference Notes:
Individual herb information has sourced mainly from TCM Wiki and American Dragon for basic data and then updated manually with my own notes. Zhou, Xie and Yan (2011): Encyclopedia of Traditional Chinese Medicines, Vol. 5, and A+ Medical Encyclopaedia have been used for entries not available from those sources with additional material searched for and filled in where available. Western herbs not appearing in the Chinese literature have used Ross (2010): Combining Western Herbs and Chinese Medicine: A Clinical Materia Medica, White Rabbit Institute of Healing and therapeutika.ch. Choices of which source to use or combine have been my own.
These pages are intended to assist clinicians and are not intended for self-diagnosis or treatment for which a qualified professional should be consulted. Actions and indications are taken from traditional uses and do not necessarily reflect the evidence base which should be researched independently. Dosages are for guidance only and will vary dependening on the potency of the batch and the tolerance of the individual so should be evaluated by a professional based on individual needs.
