Heat-Clearing and toxicity-Removing Herbs

NameLou Lu (Radix Rhapontici)The Effect of 漏芦PropertyBitter, cold; stomach meridian entered.ActionsClear heat and remove toxicity; cure abscess and dissipate nudulation; unblock meridians and promote lactation; relax tendons and unblock vessels.IndicationsMammary abscess with swelling pain, scrofula

NameLou Lu (Radix Rhapontici)The Effect of Radix RhaponticiPropertyBitter, cold; stomach meridian entered.ActionsClear heat and remove toxicity; cure abscess and dissipate nudulation; unblock meridians and promote lactation; relax tendons and unblock vessels.IndicationsMammary abscess with swelling

NameJin Qiao Mai (Wild Buckwheat Rhizome)The Effect of 金荞麦PropertyCool, slightly pungent, astringent; lung meridian entered.ActionsClear heat and remove toxicity, activate blood and resolve carbuncle, expel wind and eliminate dampness.IndicationsSnake bites, sore throat, dysentery, traumatic injury,

NameJin Qiao Mai (Wild Buckwheat Rhizome)The Effect of Wild Buckwheat RhizomePropertyCool, slightly pungent, astringent; lung meridian entered.ActionsClear heat and remove toxicity, activate blood and resolve carbuncle, expel wind and eliminate dampness.IndicationsSnake bites, sore throat, dysentery

NameMu Tou Hui (Diversifolious Patrinia Root)The Effect of 墓头回PropertyPungent, warm; liver and heart meridians entered.ActionsClear heat and dry dampness, stop leucorrhea, prevent malaria and stop bleeding.IndicationsMalaria, leucorrhea with reddish discharge, metrorrhagia, traumatic injury.Dosage a

NameJiang (A thick sauce made from soya beans or flour)The Effect of A thick sauce made from soya beans or flourPropertySalty, sweet, neutral; stomach, spleen and kidney meridians entered.ActionsClear heat and remove toxicity.IndicationsSnake, insect and bee bites, scalds and burns, acute eczema, po

NameGan Zhe (Sugarcane)The Effect of 甘蔗PropertySweet, cold; lung and stomach meridians entered.ActionsClear heat and promote the secretion of body fluid, moisten dryness, harmonize the spleen and stomach, remove toxicity.IndicationsDiabetes, nausea and vomit, constipation, sores and boils, cough due

NamingLian Qiao (Fructus Forsythiae)——Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (Shen Nong’s Herbal)The Processing of 连翘OriginThe fruits of Forsythia suspensa (Thunb. ) Vahl. of family Caprifoliaceae.LocationShanxi, Shaanxi, Henan provinces, etc. of China.HarvestThe fruit is collected when it begins to ripen in autumn

NamingQing Dai (Indigo Naturalis)——Yao Xing Lun (Treatise on Herb Property)The Processing of 青黛OriginA kind of dried powder or clumping processed from the leaf or stem with leaf of Baphicacanthus cusia (Nees) Bremek, Polygonum tinctorium Ait or Isatis indigotica Fort. of family Acanthaceae.LocationF

NamingQing Dai (Indigo Naturalis)——Yao Xing Lun (Treatise on Herb Property)The Processing of Indigo NaturalisOriginA kind of dried powder or clumping processed from the leaf or stem with leaf of Baphicacanthus cusia (Nees) Bremek, Polygonum tinctorium Ait or Isatis indigotica Fort. of family Acantha