Properties: Sweet, cold
Meridans Entered:
Primary: Heart and Lung
Extraordinary Vessels: Yang Qiao
Traditional Actions/Indications:
- Clears Heat and resolves toxicity
Sores and skin eruptions
- Dispels Wind-Dampness, soothes the sinews and unblocks the channels
Wind-Damp-Heat-Bi
- Cools the Blood
Adjunctively for hot abdominal pain, early periods Excess bleeding and mastitis
- Relieves abdominal pain due to inflammation
Blood Heat dysentery
- Clears Damp-Heat from the Lower Jiao
Damp-Heat in the Lower Jiao
- Expels Wind-Heat
Wind-Heat
- Expels Corpse Evils
Unexplained wasting due to Transmitted Corpse Consumption (傳屍癆) (Wilcox, 2024)
Suggested Daily Dosage: 10-30g in decoction.
Cautions: It is contraindicated for frequent diarrhea and deficiency-cold in spleen and stomach.
Appears in 3 formulae listed on this site: (click to display)
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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, has 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.
