Properties: PUNGENT, BITTER – COOL Dosage: 9 – 15g.
Patrinia (Thiaspi) Meridia: LARGE INTESTINE, LIVER, STOMACH
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-clear toxic heat and fire – expel pus, abscess, sores, swellings
-dispel blood stasis, stop pain – abdominal / chest stasis, traumatic injury
Properties: BITTER - COLD Dosage: 3 – 15g.
Sophora Root Meridian: BLADDER, HEART, LIVER, LARGE INTESTINE, SMALL INTESTINE
-clear heat, dry damp – dysentery, leucorrhea, jaundice, sores
-expels wind, kills parasites – itching, skin lesions
-clear heat, promote urination – lin syndrome, hot edema
Properties: BITTER - COLD Dosage: 3 – 9g.
Chinese Gentian Root Meridian: GALLBLADDER, LIVER, STOMACH
(Gentiana) -drain damp heat from liver and gallbladder – red-swollen-sore throat/eyes/ears, jaundice, painful-swollen genitals, leucorrhea
-clears ascending liver fire – headache, red eyes, fever, spasm, convulsions
Huang Bai Properties: BITTER - COLD Dosage: 3 – 12g.
Amur Cork Tree Bark Meridian: KIDNEY, BLADDER
(Phellodendron) -drain damp heat – lower jiao – thick-yellow leucorrhea, diarrhea, dysentery, red-swollen-painful knee joints, jaundice
-drains kidney fire – steaming bone, night sweat, afternoon fever
-drain fire, relieve toxicity – sores and lesions
Properties: BITTER - COLD Dosage: 1.5 – 9g.
Coptis Rhizome Meridian: HEART, LARGE INTESTINE, LIVER, STOMACH
-drain fire, relieve toxicity – high fever, irritability, disorientation, delirium, painful-red eyes, sore throat, boils carbuncles, abscesses
-clear heat, drain damp – stomach – diarrhea, dysentery, acid reflux, halitosis, belching
-clear heart fire – irritability, insomnia
-topically – red-painful ulcerations
Properties:BITTER - COLD Dosage: 6 – 15g.
Baical Skullcap Root Meridian: GALLBLADDER, LARGE INTESTINE, LUNG, STOMACH
(Scutellaria) -clear heat, drain fire – upper burner, fever, irritability, thirst, cough
-clear heat, dry damp – stomach – diarrhea, dysentery, thirst with no desire to drink, lin syndrome, jaundice
-clear heat, stop bleeding – vomit/cough blood, nosebleed, blood in stool
-clear heat, calm fetus – restless fetus due to heat
-clear liver yang rising – headache, irritability, red eyes, bitter taste
Properties: PUNGENT - NEUTRAL Dosage: 1.5 – 4.5g.
Fruiting Body Of Puffball Meridian: LUNG
(Lasiosphaera) -clears toxic lung fire – painful-swollen throat, loss of voice, cough
-applied topically to stop bleeding – oral cavity and lips
Properties: BITTER - COLD Dosage: 1.5 – 9g.
Belamcanda Rhizome Meridian: LUNG
-clear toxic heat – pain-swollen throat with phlegm heat
-transforms phlegm, clears lung – cough, wheezing and phlegm
Properties: BITTER - COLD Dosage: 4.5 – 15g.
Bark of Korean Ash Branch Meridian: GALLBLADDER, LIVER, STOMACH, LARGE INTESTINE
-drain damp heat – dysentery
-drain liver fire – eye disorders, visual obstruction
-clear wind-damp – painful hot obstruction
Properties: BITTER - COLD Dosage: 6 – 15g.
Chinese Anemone Root Meridian: LARGE INTESTINE, LIVER, STOMACH
Pulsatilla -clear toxic heat and fire – dysentery (damp heat in stomach)
Properties: SOUR - COLD Dosage: 15 – 60g.
Purslane (Portulaca) Meridian: LARGE INTESTINE, LIVER
-clear toxic fire, cool blood – dysentery, lin syndrome
-clear damp heat, treats sores – carbuncles, red-white leucorrhea
-antidote – wasp sting, snakebite
Properties: PUNGENT - COOL Dosage: 15 – 60g.
Houttuynia Meridian: LARGE INTESTINE, LUNG
-clear toxic lung heat – swellings, abscess, thick-yellow sputum
-relieves toxicity – expels pus for toxic sores (internal and external)
-drains damp heat – promote urination, diarrhea, lin syndrome
Properties: BITTER - COLD Dosage: 6 – 9g.
Dictamnus Root Bark Meridian: SPLEEN, STOMACH
-clears toxic heat and fire, expels wind, dries damp – sores, carbuncles, rashes with excessive pus, moist skin, jaundice
Properties: PUNGENT, BITTER - COOL Dosage: 9 – 15g.
Patrinia (Thiaspi) Meridian: LARGE INTESTINE, LIVER, STOMACH
-clear toxic heat and fire – expel pus, abscess, sores, swellings
-dispel blood stasis, stop pain – abdominal / chest stasis, traumatic injury
Properties: BITTER, NEUTRAL Dosage: 15 – 30g.
Sargentadoxa Vine Meridian: LARGE INTESTINE, LIVER
-clear toxic heat and abscess – skin lesions, swelling pain
-invigorate blood, disperse stasis – trauma, dysmenorrhoea, joint pain
Properties: BITTER, PUNGENT - COOL Dosage: 6 – 12g.
Wild Chrysanthemum Meridian: LUNG, LIVER
Flower -clear toxic heat and fire – carbuncles, swollen throat, wind-fire, red eyes
Properties: BITTER, SWEET - COLD Dosage: 9 – 30g.
Dandelion Meridian: LIVER, STOMACH
-clear toxic heat and fire – liver heat with red-swollen-painful eyes
-dissipates nodules and abscess – firm-hard sores
-promotes lactation due to heat
-clear heat, resolves damp – jaundice, lin syndrome
Properties: PUNGENT, BITTER - COLD Dosage: 9 – 15g.
Yedeon’s Violet Meridian: HEART, LIVER
-clear toxic heat and fire – hot swellings, red-swollen eyes/throat/ears
-clear hot sores – sores and abscess’s of head and back – topically
Properties: BITTER, SWEET - COLD Dosage: 15 – 60g.
Heydyotis (Oldenlandia) Meridian: LIVER, STOMACH, LARGE INTESTINE
-clear toxic heat and fire – reduce abscess, toxic sores, ulcerations, swellings, snakebite (internal and external application)
-clear heat and damp – promotes urination, lin syndrome, jaundice
Properties: SALTY - COLD Dosage: 1.5 – 3g.
Pulverata Levis Meridian: LIVER, LUNG, STOMACH
-clear heat, relieves toxicity, cools blood, disperses swellings, topically for inflamed oral cavity or throat
-lung heat – cough
Properties: BITTER - COLD Dosage: 15 – 30g.
Woad Root Meridian: HEART, LUNG, STOMACH
(Isatis Root) -drain toxic heat and fire, cools blood –mumps, painful swollen throat
-damp heat – jaundice
Properties: BITTER - COLD Dosage: 9 – 30g.
Woad Leaf (Indigo) Meridian: HEART, LUNG STOMACH
-clear heat, relieve toxicity – contagious febrile disease outbreak
-cools blood, reduce blotches – skin eruptions, intense fever, irritability
Properties: BITTER, PUNGENT - COOL Dosage: 6 – 15g.
Forsynthia Fruit Meridian: HEART, LIVER, GALLBLADDER
-clear heat and toxins – dissipates nodules, carbuncles and hot sores
-expel wind heat – fever, chills, sore throat, headache
Properties: SWEET - COLD Dosage: 9 – 15g.
Honeysuckle Flower Meridian: LARGE INTESTINE, LUNG, STOMACH
(Lonicera) -clear heat, relieves toxic fire – throat/breast/eye painful swellings
-expel wind heat – fever, aversion to wind, sore throat, headache
-clear damp heat from lower Jiao – dysentery, lin syndrome
Properties: SWEET, BITTER - NEUTRAL Dosage: 3 – 9g.
Scouring Rush Meridian: LIVER, LUNG
(Shave Grass) -disperse wind-heat – red-painful eyes, blurred vision, pterygium
-clear heat, stop bleeding – blood in stool, haemorrhoids
Properties: SWEET - NEUTRAL Dosage: 6 – 15g.
Pipewort Scapus Meridian: LIVER, STOMACH
(Inflorescence) -disperse wind-heat – brighten eyes, red-painful eyes, floaters
Properties: SWEET - COOL Dosage: 3 – 9g.
Buddleia Flower Bud Meridian: LIVER
-benefits eyes – red-swollen eyes, excessive tearing, light sensitivity
Properties: SWEET - COOL Dosage: 3 – 15g.
Celosia Seeds Meridian: LIVER
-drains liver fire, clears wind – improves vision, red-painful eyes
-impaired-blurred vision – combine with Jue Ming Zi and Mi Meng Hua
Properties: BITTER, PUNGENT - COLD Dosage: 9 – 15g.
Selfheal Spike Meridian: GALLBLADDER, LIVER USED ALONE – 30g.
(Prunella) -ascending liver fire- dry-painful eye, brighten eyes, headache, dizzy -dissipate phlegm fire nodules – neck lumps, scrofula, lipoma, goiter
-hypertension
Properties: BITTER - COLD Dosage: 1.5 – 6g.
Lotus Plumule Meridian: HEART, PERICARDIUM
-drains heart fire – confusion, delirium, insomnia, irritability
-stops bleeding, binds essence – vomiting blood