INDIVIDUAL HERBS
| Pharmaceutical Latin: | Flos Chrysanthemi |
| Common English: | Chrysanthemum Flower |
| Taste | Temperature | Entering Meridians | Dosage |
Sweet Bitter (Acrid) |
Slightly Cold (Cool) |
Lung Liver |
4.5-20g Tincture: 2-5ml |
| Actions | Indications/Syndromes |
Disperses Wind and clears Heat |
Wind-Heat from a common Cold or Warm pathogen disease |
Calms the Liver and clears the eyes |
Dry, swollen and/or painful eyes due to Wind-Heat in the Liver channel or Liver Yang Rising Spots in front of the eyes, blurred vision or dizziness due to Kidney and Liver Yin Deficiencies Liver and Kidney Yin Deficiencies with heatstroke |
Calms Liver Yang and extinguishes Wind |
Liver Wind with dizziness, headache and deafness Liver Yang Rising (Liver and Kidney Yin Deficiency) Hypertension |
Detoxifies (purifies Blood) |
Toxic sores and swellings |
Promotes the movement of Heart Qi and Blood and stimulates Blood circulation |
Heart Qi and Blood Stagnation |
CONTRAINDICATIONS |
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INCOMPATIBILITIES |
HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS |
| Hb. Menthae |
Rx. Saposhnikoviae |
Rz. Chuanxiong |
Wind-Heat patterns with fever, chills, headache, dizziness, sore eyes and sore throat. Liver Qi Stagnation turning to Liver Fire Flaring upward with blurred vision, dizziness, headache and red, swollen eyes. (use Bai Ju Hua) |
Wind-Heat irritating the Exterior with slight chills, mild fever, headache and itchy eyes. |
Headache due to Wind-Heat or Liver Yang Rising. |
Periostracum Cicadae |
Fol. Mori |
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Superficial visual obstruction and red, watery, swollen, painful eyes due to Liver Heat from either Wind-Heat or Liver Yang Rising. Residual Heat toxin remaining from measles or other rashes. Superficial visual obstruction from trauma. |
Wind-Heat. |
Wind-Heat with fevers. |
Fr. Lycii
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Rx. Paeoniae Alba |
Ram. cum Uncis Uncariae |
Dizziness and blurred vision due to Liver and Kidney Yin Deficiency. |
Headache, vertigo, and dizziness due to Liver Yang Rising. Seizures and convulsions in children due to Liver Wind. |
Liver Yang Rising with dizziness, vertigo, and blurred vision. |
Per. Cicadae |
Flos Lonicerae |
Fr. Lycii |
Wind-Heat in the Liver Channel or Liver Fire with red, swollen, painful eyes. |
Colorless, painless, flat, slow-healing suppurative inflammation of the soft tissues and other toxic swellings. |
Liver and Kidney Deficiency with Jing and Blood unable to rise and nourish the eyes. Liver Yang or Liver Wind Rising. |
Rz. et Rx. Notopterygii |
Ram. cum Uncis Uncariae |
Rx. Isatidis or Rx. Sophorae Tonkinensis |
Headache. |
Headaches due to Liver Wind with Yin Deficiency Fire. |
Wind-Heat with a sore throat. |
Fr. Lycii |
Rx. Rehmanniae |
Flos Buddlejae |
Blurred vision and dizziness due to Liver and Kidney Yin Deficiencies. |
Near-sightedness. |
Superficial visual obstruction. |
Fr. Tribuli |
Rx. Glycyrrhizae |
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Visual disturbances with dizziness and headache due to Liver Yang Rising. |
Topically for sores, carbuncles and abscesses of the skin. |
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- White Chrysanthemum Bai Ju Hua nourishes the Liver and clears the eyes better than other varieties. It is most often used for diminished vision due to Kidney and Liver Yin Deficiencies.
- Yellow Chrysanthemum Huang Ju Hua has better Wind-Heat dispersing, draining Fire, and resolving toxicity properties. It is most often used in treating eye-redness and headache due to Wind-Heat.
- It can be used as a beverage for those with Wind-Heat or Blood Heat.
- It can be used with other herbs to treat brain cancer.
- It is considered to be one the best remedies for Wind-Heat.
- It ranks in the top twelve remedies for systemic hypertension and coronary disease.
- It can ascend or descend, drain or tonify.
- Ju Hua tonifies the Lungs and Kidneys and is stronger at calming the Liver and brightening the eyes tan Fol. Mori Sang Ye. It has a mild ability to resolve toxicity that allows it to treat toxic swellings, boils and furuncles. Sang Ye excels at calming Liver Wind and disseminating Lung Qi. It is stronger at spreading and dispersing than Ju Hua and can moisten the Lungs, stop coughs, cool the Blood and stop bleeding.
- Dry-fried Chrysanthemum Flower Chao Ju Hua is used to calm the Liver and clear the eyes when the Spleen and Stomach are weak.
- Charred Chrysanthemum Flower Ju Hua Tan enters the Blood, where it settles Wind and quiets the Blood. It is commonly used with Rx. Polygoni Multiflori Preparata Zhi He Shou Wu, Ligustri Lucidi Nu Zhen Zi, Fr. Tribuli Ci Ji Li and Fr. Lycii Gou Qi Zi, for dizziness, tinnitus and pain in the eyeballs from Blood Deficiency Generating Wind.
- This plant flowers in the fall and therefore treats Wind.