INDIVIDUAL HERBS

Pharmaceutical Latin: Fluoritum
Common English: Fluorite
Amethyst
Substances that Calm the Spirit: Substances that Anchor, Settle and Calm the Spirit
Taste Temperature Entering Meridians Dosage
Sweet
Warm
Heart
Liver
9-16g
Actions Indications/Syndromes

Sedates the Heart and settles tremors and palpitations

Disorientation, insomnia, palpitations with anxiety or convulsions due to Heart Blood Deficiency or Liver Yang Rising

Warms the Lungs and descends Qi

Cough or wheezing due to Deficiency Cold of the Lungs

Used for wheezing with copious sputum

Warms the Womb and warms and unblocks the Chong and Ren channels

Excessive menstruation, uterine bleeding or infertility due to Cold from Deficiency of the Womb

CONTRAINDICATIONS
  • Contraindicated for those with Yin Deficiency Fire.
  • Contraindicated for those with severe Blood Dryness.
INCOMPATIBILITIES
HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

Sm. Platycladi
Bai Zi Ren
Sm Zizyphi Spinosae
Suan Zao Ren
Rx. Angelicae Sinensis
Dang Gui

Fossilia Ossis Mastodi
Long Gu
Glauberitum
Han Shui Shi
Rx. et Rz. Rhei
Da Huang

Fr. Schisandrae
Wu Wei Zi
Flos Farfarae
Kuan Dong Hua
Cx. Mori
Sang Bai Pi

Palpitations with anxiety, disorientation and insomnia due to Heart Blood Deficiency with Liver Yang Rising.

Fright, pain and convulsions due to Phlegm-Heat in the Heart channel.

Rebellious Qi in the Lungs with cough and wheezing with copious sputum.

Rz. Angelicae Sinensis
Dang Gui
Rx. Rehmanniae Preparata
Shu Di Huang
Rz. Atractylodis Macrocephalae
Bai Zhu

Limonitum
Yu Yu Liang
Halloysitum Rubrum
Chi Shi Zhi

Infertility, irregular uterine bleeding and vaginal discharge due to Cold from Deficiency of the Womb and the Sea of Blood.

Uterine bleeding due to Cold in the Womb.

 

  1. This herb calms the Spirit and settles the mind while augmenting the Liver Blood in the Lower Jiao.
  2. It moistens and eliminates Dryness.
  3. Traveling through the Chong and Ren Channels, it warms the Womb.
  4. Calcined Fluorite Duan Zi Shi Ying is easier to pulverize, more easily warms the Lungs, descends Qi, dispels Cold and warms the womb. This form of the herb is rarely used.