Heat-Clearing and toxicity-Removing Herbs

NameGou Gan Cai (Chinese Dicliptera Herb)The Effect of Herba Diclipterae ChinensisPropertySweet, slightly bitter, cold; liver, lung and heart meridians entered.ActionsClear heat and cool blood, induce diuresis and remove toxicity.IndicationsSores and boils, difficult urination, hematochezia, hematur

NameMa Yin Hua (Rhododendri Ovati Radix)SourcesThe drug is the dried root of Rhododendron ovatum Planch. (Family Ericaceae), growing on mountain slopes in forests, and distributed chiefly in Fujian, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shandong and Hunan.ConstituentsLeaf contains quercetin, myroetin, dihydro

NameBa Jiao Lian (Sixangular Dysosma Rhizome)The Effect of 八角莲PropertyBitter, pungent, cool, toxic; liver and lung meridians entered.ActionsResolve phlegm and dissipate nodulation, expel stasis and alleviate pain, clear heat and remove toxicity.IndicationsCough, sore throat, scrofula, snake bites, t

NameE Zhang Jin Xing Cao (Herba Phymatopsis Hastatae cum Radice)The Effect of 鹅掌金星草PropertyBitter, cool.ActionsClear heat and cool blood, promote diuresis and remove toxicity.IndicationsSores and boils, hematochezia, bloody stranguria, chronic hepatitis, bacillary dysentery, typhoid fever, polydypsi

NameE Zhang Jin Xing Cao (Herba Phymatopsis Hastatae cum Radice)The Effect of Herba Phymatopsis Hastatae cum RadicePropertyBitter, cool.ActionsClear heat and cool blood, promote diuresis and remove toxicity.IndicationsSores and boils, hematochezia, bloody stranguria, chronic hepatitis, bacillary dys

NameBai Shu Liang (Tuber Dioscoreae Hispidae)SourcesThe drug is the dried tuber of Dioscorea hispida Dennst. (family Dioscoreaceae), cutivated or growing in hilly scrubs or near forests, and distributed in Fujian, Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi, Yunnan, Tibet of China.CostituentsThe drug contains diosco

NameCi Bai (Taiwan juniper root or fruit)SourcesThe drug is the dried root of Juniperus formosana Hayata (family (Cupressaceae), growing on mountain slopes, under woods, distributed in the southern part of Shaanxi and Gansu.ConstituentsThe timber contains α-cedrol, β-sitosterol, crypto japonol,sugio

NameLing (Water Caltrop)The Effect of 菱PropertySweet, cool; spleen and stomach meridians entered.ActionsStrengthen the spleen and tonify the stomach, relieve polydipsia, remove toxicity.IndicationsPolydipsia caused by summer-heat, drunkness, dysentery, diarrhea caused by spleen-deficiency.Dosage and

NameRong Xu (Smallfruit fig aerial root)The Effect of 榕须PropertyBitter, neutral; lung, spleen and kidney meridians entered.ActionsExpel wind, clear heat, activate blood and remove toxicity.IndicationsTraumatic injury, whooping cough, nose bleeding, rheumatic arthritis, amygdalitis, inadequate erupti

NameHu Zhang Cao (Brooklet Anemone Root)The Effect of 虎掌草PropertyBitter, pungent, neutral, slightly toxic; liver, lung, stomach meridians entered.ActionsClear heat and remove toxicity, activate blood and relax the tendons.IndicationsScrofula, sores and boils, malaria, stomachache, traumatic injury,