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
Category Archives: Herbs That Clear Heat And Detoxify
She Gan
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
Qin Pi
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
Bai Tou Weng
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)
Ma Chi Xian
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
Yu Xing Cao
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
Bai Xian Pi
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
Bai Jiang Cao
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
Hong Teng
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
Ye Ju Hua
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
Pu Gong Ying
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
Zi Hua di Ding
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
Bai Hua Shi shi Cao
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
Qing Dai
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
Ban Lan Gen
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
Da Qing Ye
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
Lian Qiao
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
Jin Yin Hua
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