Heat-Clearing and Blood-cooling Herbs

NameYu Gan Zi (Fructus Phyllanthi)The Effect of 余甘子PropertySweet, sour, astringent, cool; lung and stomach meridians entered.ActionsClear heat and cool blood, promote digestion and strengthen the stomach, promote the secretion of saliva and relieve cough.IndicationsBlood stasis, abdominal distension

NameYu Gan Zi (Fructus Phyllanthi)The Effect of Fructus PhyllanthiPropertySweet, sour, astringent, cool; lung and stomach meridians entered.ActionsClear heat and cool blood, promote digestion and strengthen the stomach, promote the secretion of saliva and relieve cough.IndicationsBlood stasis, abdom

NamingDi Huang (Radix Rehmanniae)——Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (Shen Nong’s Herbal)The Processing of 地黄OriginThe root tuber of perennial herbaceous plant Rehmannia glutinosa Libosch of family Scrophulariacea.LocationMainty in Henan and Hebei provinces, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region as well as northeas

NamingDi Huang (Radix Rehmanniae)——Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (Shen Nong’s Herbal)The Processing of Radix RehmanniaeOriginThe root tuber of perennial herbaceous plant Rehmannia glutinosa Libosch of family Scrophulariacea.LocationMainty in Henan and Hebei provinces, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region as we

NameXuan Cao Gen (Radices Hemerocallis)The Effect of Xuan Cao GenPropertySweet, cool; spleen, lung and heart meridians entered.ActionsPromote diuresis and cool blood.IndicationsJaundice, nose bleeding, stranguria with turbid discharge, difficult urination, edema, morbid leucorrhea, hematochezia, met

NameXuan Cao Gen (Radices Hemerocallis)The Effect of 萱草根 PropertySweet, cool; spleen, lung and heart meridians entered.ActionsPromote diuresis and cool blood.IndicationsJaundice, nose bleeding, stranguria with turbid discharge, difficult urination, edema, morbid leucorrhea, hematochezia, metrorrhagi

NameShui Tian Qi (Lobedfruit Schizocapsa Rhizome)SourcesThe drug is the dried rhizome of Schizocapsa plantaginea Hance (Family Taccaceae),growing in ravines, in forests, in swampy lands along roadsides and streams, and distributed inJiangxi, Hubei,Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou and Yunnan of Chi

NamingXuan Shen (Radix Scrophulariae)——Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (Shen Nong’s Herbal)The Processing of 玄参OriginThe root of perennial herbaceous plant Scrophularia ningpoensis Hemsl of family Scrophulariaceae.LocationYangtze River Valley as well as Shaanxi and Fujian provincesHarvestCollected in winter

NamingXuan Shen (Radix Scrophulariae)——Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (Shen Nong’s Herbal)The Processing of Radix ScrophulariaeOriginThe root of perennial herbaceous plant Scrophularia ningpoensis Hemsl of family Scrophulariaceae.LocationYangtze River Valley as well as Shaanxi and Fujian provincesHarvestCol

NameDiao Zhu Mei (Herba Zebrinae Pendulae)SourcesThe drug is the fresh or dried entire herb of Zebrina pendula Schnizl. (family Commelinaceae), distributed originally in Mexico, cultivated in most areas of China.The Effect of Diao Zhu MeiPropertySweet, cold, toxic; bladder, lung and large intestine