Deficiency-Heat-Clearing Herbs

NameMu Hao (Herba Artemisiae Japonicae)The Effect of 牡蒿 PropertyBitter, cold; liver and gallbladder meridians entered.ActionsRelieve summer-heat,bring down asthenic fever and prevent malaria.IndicationsFever due to yin deficiency, malaria, external contraction of summer-heat, fever without sweat.Dos

NameMu Hao (Herba Artemisiae Japonicae)The Effect of Herba Artemisiae JaponicaePropertyBitter, cold; liver and gallbladder meridians entered.ActionsRelieve summer-heat,bring down asthenic fever and prevent malaria.IndicationsFever due to yin deficiency, malaria, external contraction of summer-heat,

NamingDi Gu Pi (Cortex Lycii)——Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (Shen Nong’s Herbal)The Processing of Di Gu PiOriginThe root bark of Lycium chinense Mill or Ningxia L. barbarum L. of family Arbustum.LocationMany areas of China.HarvestCollected in early spring and the end of autumn.The actual smell and tasteLi

NamingDi Gu Pi (Cortex Lycii)——Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (Shen Nong’s Herbal)The Processing of 地骨皮OriginThe root bark of Lycium chinense Mill or Ningxia L. barbarum L. of family Arbustum.LocationMany areas of China.HarvestCollected in early spring and the end of autumn.The actual smell and tasteLight s

NamingDi Gu Pi (Cortex Lycii)——Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (Shen Nong’s Herbal)The Processing of Cortex LyciiOriginThe root bark of Lycium chinense Mill or Ningxia L. barbarum L. of family Arbustum.LocationMany areas of China.HarvestCollected in early spring and the end of autumn.The actual smell and tas

NamingHu Huang Lian (Rhizoma Picrorhizae)——Xin Xiu Ben Cao (Newly Revised Materia Medica)The Processing of Hu Huang LianOriginThe rhizome of Picrorhiza serophulariiflora Pennell of family Scrophulariacea.LocationMainly in Yunnan province and Tibet Autonomous Region of China.HarvestCollected in autum

NamingHu Huang Lian (Rhizoma Picrorhizae)——Xin Xiu Ben Cao (Newly Revised Materia Medica)The Processing of 胡黄连OriginThe rhizome of Picrorhiza serophulariiflora Pennell of family Scrophulariacea.LocationMainly in Yunnan province and Tibet Autonomous Region of China.HarvestCollected in autumn.The actu

NamingYin Chai Hu (Radix Stellariae)——Ben Cao Gang Mu Shi Yi (Supplement to Compendium of Materia Medica)The Processing of Yin Chai HuOriginThe root of Stellaria dichotoma L. var. lanceolata Bge of family Pink.LocationInner Mongolia Autonomous Region and northwest of China.HarvestCollected in spring