Properties: SWEET, SALTY - NEUTRAL Dosage: 9 – 15g.
Cockle Shell Meridian: LIVER, SPLEEN
(Ark Shell) -invigorate blood, dissolve phlegm – dissipate nodules, abdominal masses (all types)
-absorb acid, alleviate pain – chronic stomach pain, ulcer, vomiting acid
Properties: BITTER, ASTRINGENT - NEUTRAL Dosage: 3 – 12g.
Black or Brown Cutch Paste Meridian: LUNG
-drain damp – absorb seepage for sores, chronic non-healing sores
-stop bleeding – applied topically to external areas
-clear lung, transform phlegm – generate fluids, stop diarrhea, lung heat, thirst, summer heat
Properties: SWEET - NEUTRAL Dosage: 6 – 12g.
Dried Vegetable Sponge Meridian: LUNG, STOMACH, LIVER
-expel wind, damp heat obstructing channels – sore chest and flank areas
-sore muscles and sinews, stiff joint, traumatic injury, breast abscess
-expel phlegm, lung heat – high fever, chest pain, sticky sputum
-expel summer heat – promote urination
-breasts – swollen-painful breasts, insufficient lactation
Properties: SWEET, SALTY - NEUTRAL Dosage: 0.3 – 1.5g.
Dragons Blood Meridian: HEART, LIVER
-dispel blood stasis, relieve pain – traumatic injuries causing fractures, contusion, sprains, bruising and stops bleeding (topically)
-protect decay of ulcer’s surface, generate flesh, chronic non-healing sores
Properties: SWEET - NEUTRAL/TOXIC Dosage: 6 – 12g. decocted
Hornet Nest Meridian: LUNG, STOMACH POWDERS 1.5 – 3g.
-relieve toxicity, expel wind, alleviate pain – tooth ache (gargle)
-topically – skin rash, itching, scabies, ringworm, sores, carbuncles
-expel wind, dry damp – painful obstruction, wind rash
Properties: BITTER - COLD/TOXIC Dosage: 0.3 – 0.9g.
Nux-Vomica Seeds Meridian: LIVER, SPLEEN
-unblock channels, disperse clumps – reduce swelling, alleviate pain – abscess, yin-type ulcers, pain due to trauma, wind-damp obstruction
Properties: PUNGENT, BITTER - WARM Dosage: 3 – 12g.
Cnidium Seeds Meridian: KIDNEY
-dry damp, kills parasites, stop itch – topically – weeping, itchy skin lesion, scabies, ringworm
-warm kidney, strengthen yang – impotence, infertility, cold womb
-disperse cold, expel wind, dry damp – leucorrhea, lower back pain
Properties: PUNGENT - COLD/TOXIC Dosage: 0.03 – 0.06g.
Cantharides Meridian: LARGE INTESTINE, LIVER, SMALL INTESTINE
(Mylabris) -attack toxins, wears away sores - topically – sores, carbuncles, scrofula
-greatly irritates skin producing blisters and redness
-breaks up blood stasis, disperse clumps – palpable non-moving masses
Properties: SOUR, ASTRINGENT - COLD Dosage: 0.6 – 3g.
Alum Meridian: LARGE INTESTINE, LIVER, LUNG, SPLEEN, STOMACH
-relieve toxicity, kills parasites, dry damp, alleviate itch
-topical wash for scabies, ringworm, damp or damp heat rash
-swollen painful eyes-throat and jaundice
-stop bleeding, alleviate diarrhea – chronic blood in diarrhea/urine, hemorrhoidal bleeding, nosebleed, bleeding gums, any external bleeding
-clear heat, expel phlegm, wind phlegm – irritability, delirium, convulsions, cough with thick sticky sputum
Properties: SWEET - NEUTRAL Dosage: TOPICAL
Smithsonite Meridian: LIVER, STOMACH EXTERNAL USE
(Calamine) -brighten eyes – superficial visual obstruction, red-swollen eyes
-dry dampness, generate flesh – chronic draining pus from open sores
Properties: SWEET - NEUTRAL Dosage: TOPICAL
Smithsonite Meridian: LIVER, STOMACH EXTERNAL USE
(Calamine) -brighten eyes – superficial visual obstruction, red-swollen eyes
-dry dampness, generate flesh – chronic draining pus from open sores
Properties: PUNGENT BITTER - WARM/TOXIC Dosage: 0.15 – 0.6g.
Realgar Meridian: HEART, LIVER, STOMACH
-relieve toxicity, kill parasites, skin itchiness, inflammation, abscess
-topically – scabies, ringworm, dam rashes
-kills parasites – accumulation symptoms with roundworms
-dries dampness, expel phlegm – wheezing, seizures, malarial conditions
Properties: SOUR - HOT/TOXIC Dosage: 1.5 – 6g.
Sulphur Meridian: KIDNEY, LARGE INTESTINE
-relieve toxicity, kill parasites, stop itching
-topically – scabies, ringworm, damp sores, ulcers, carbuncles
-tonify vitality gate fire, strengthen yang – interior yin cold symptoms
-kidney yang deficiency – cold lower back and knees, impotence
-spleen deficiency cold – asthma, constipation (elderly + Ban Xia)