Properties: BITTER - COLD Dosage: 3 – 9g.
Wormwood Meridian:KIDNEY, LIVER, GALLBLADDER
-clear summer heat – fever, headache, dizzy, stifling sensation in chest
-clear deficient fever – unremitting fever with no sweating
-cool blood, stop bleeding – purpuric rash, nosebleed
-malarial disorders – alternating fever and chills
Properties: BITTER, SALTY - COLD Dosage: 6 – 15g.
Swallowwort Root Meridian:LUNG STOMACH, KIDNEY
-clear heat, cool blood – yin deficient fever, post partum fever
-cools blood, promote urination – xue lin
-relieves toxicity – toxic sores, swollen-painful throat, snake bite
Properties: BITTER - COLD Dosage: 3 – 9g.
Picrorhiza Rhizome Meridian:LIVER, STOMACH, LARGE INTESTINE
-drain damp heat – dysentery, sores
-clear deficient heat – yin deficiency heat symptoms
-clear heat – reduce childhood nutritional impairment, abdominal distention, afternoon fever, dysentery, diarrhea
Properties: SWEET - COOL Dosage: 3 – 9g.
Stellaria Root Meridian:LIVER, STOMACH
-clear deficient heat – steaming bone, deficient yin fever
-clear heat – fever, thirst, irritability, childhood nutritional impairment
-cool blood, stop bleeding – coughing up blood, nosebleed, xue lin
Properties: SWEET - COLD Dosage: 6 – 15g.
Wolfberry Root Cortex Meridian:LUNG, LIVER, KIDNEY
-drain Yin deficient fire – night sweat, steaming bone, irritability, thirst
-clear lung heat – cough, wheezing
-clear heat, cool blood – nosebleed, vomit blood, xue lin
-drain floating kidney fire – toothache