INDIVIDUAL HERBS

Pharmaceutical Latin: Folium Eucalypti
Common English: Eucalyptus Leaf
Herbs that Transform Phlegm and Stop Coughing (Antitussives): Cool Herbs that Transform Hot Phlegm
Taste Temperature Entering Meridians Dosage
Acrid
Slightly Bitter
Cool
Lung
Large Intestine
Urinary Bladder
4-10g
Tincture:2-4ml
Essential Oil: 1-2 drops encapsulated with olive oil
Actions Indications/Syndromes

Promotes expectoration, resolves Phlegm-Heat and Dryness, relieves coughing, tonifies Lung Yin and relieves the bronchi

Phlegm-Heat in the Lungs with cough, sore throat, purulent green-yellow sputum or fetid bloody pus. Treats bronchitis, emphysema, pneumonia and Lung abscess.

Phlegm-Dryness in the Lungs with coughing up plugs of sputum, difficult expectoration and wheezing. Treats allergic asthma.

Lung Yin Deficiency with low-grade afternoon fever, dry mouth and throat and cough with expectoration of thick or bloody sputum. Treats pulmonary tuberculosis.

Promotes sweating, expels Wind-Heat, reduces fever, promotes eruptions, opens the sinuses and relieves pain

Wind-Heat Invades the Lungs with sore throat, aches and pains, cough and possible fever. Treats common cold and influenza.

Damp-Heat with nasal and head congestion and pain and watery nasal discharge. Treats sinusitis, rhinitis, post nasal drip, otitis media. remittent fevers and eruptive fevers.

Wind-Damp-Heat Bi with joint pain and redness, and muscle aches. Treats rheumatism, arthritis and neuralgia.

Clears Damp-Heat, reduces infection and inflammation, stimulates immunity, stops discharge and expels parasites

Treats viral and bacterial respiratory infections and throat infections

Bladder and Kidney Damp-Heat with urgent, burning cloudy urination. Treats Uro-genital infections.

Genitourinary Damp-Heat with purulent vaginal discharge and painful urination, Treats cervical erosion, chronic peptic ulcer and parasites.

Promotes tissue repair, reduces inflammation, benefits the skin and repel insects

Treats burns, injuries, ulcers and abscesses.

Treats skin eruptions.

Use topically as an insect repellant

Supports the pancreas and lowers Blood sugar

Treats hyperglycemia and diabetes
CONTRAINDICATIONS
  • Th9is herb works best with sub acute or chronic inflammations.
INCOMPATIBILITIES
HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

 

 

 

 

  • This herb has proved invaluable in treating acute External infections, respiratory syndromes and malarial conditions.
  • It is a major Western botanical for Wind-Heat.