INDIVIDUAL HERBS
Taste | Temperature | Entering Meridians | Dosage |
Bitter Acrid |
Cold |
Liver Spleen Kidney Bladder Lung Small Intestine Large Intestine |
3-15g Fresh: 15-30g Blood Tonic 1.2-1.5g |
Actions | Indications/Syndromes |
Clears Heat, promotes diuresis, resolves swelling and removes toxicity |
Dysentery, jaundice due to Damp-Heat, traumatic injury, sores, abscesses and boils, hematuria, sore throat, rubella, pinkeye, scabies, epistaxis, urolithiasis, diarrhea due to Summerheat, abdominal pain due to eruptive disease |
Invigorates the Blood, reduces swelling and stops pain |
Traumatic injuries |
Clears Damp-Heat |
Enteritis, abdominal pain |
Cools the Blood and stops bleeding |
Bleeding due to Heat in the Blood, hematemesis, hemoptysis |
Clears the Liver and brightens the eyes |
Night blindness in children, eye inflammation, cataracts, glaucoma |
CONTRAINDICATIONS |
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INCOMPATIBILITIES |
HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS |
Hb. Taraxaci |
Flos Chrysanthemi |
Rz. Belamcandae |
Sores and abscesses due to Blazing Heat Toxin. |
Red eyes from Wind-Heat. |
Acute red, swollen, painful throat. |
Hb. Plantaginis |
Olibanum |
Hb. Pteris |
Hesitant, painful urination. |
Pain from trauma. |
Enteritis and abdominal pain. |
Hb. Pteris |
Hb. Pteris |
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Dysentery. |
Summerheat stroke.. |
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- This herb is said to treat skin eruptions and urinary tract infections.
- One source says it activates the Blood and acts as a sedative.
- One source says that this herb treats tidal fevers at midnight and noon, dizziness, aversion to Cold, aching in the limbs and trunk with an encumbered sensation, lack of taste for food and drink, progressive sores, continuous fever due to consumption,
- To facilitate urination, it should be taken with water buffalo meat.
- This herb may cause vomiting.