Heat-Clearing and toxicity-Removing Herbs

NameDa Ye Jin Hua Cao (Common Wedgelet Fern Herb)The Effect of 大叶金花草PropertySlightly bitter, cold; liver, lung and large intestine meridians entered.ActionsClear heat and remove toxicity, eliminate dampness and stop bleeding.IndicationsSore throat, dysentery, sores and boils, mumps, burns and scalds

NameMao Ren Shen (Valvate Actinidia Root)The Effect of 猫人参PropertyBitter, astringent, cool; liver meridian entered.ActionsClear heat, resolve swelling and remove toxicity.IndicationsSores and boils, leucorrhea, lepriasis, summer fever, respiratory tract infection.Dosage and AdministrationsDecoct 30~

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,

NameShui Xian Cai (Herba Ammanniae Bacciferae)SourcesThe drug is the dried or fresh whole herb of Ammannia baccifera L. (Family Lythraceae), growing in swampy places or irrigated fields, and distributed in East China, South China, and Hebei, Shaanxi, Hunan, Hubei and Yunnan.The Effect of 水苋菜Property

NameShui Xian Cai (Herba Ammanniae Bacciferae)SourcesThe drug is the dried or fresh whole herb of Ammannia baccifera L. (Family Lythraceae), growing in swampy places or irrigated fields, and distributed in East China, South China, and Hebei, Shaanxi, Hunan, Hubei and Yunnan.The Effect of Herba Amman

NameBan Zhi Lian (Herba Portulacae Grandiflorae)SourcesThe drug is the resh aerial part of Portulaca grandiflora Hook. (family Portulacaceae), distributed oringinaly in Brazil, and cultivated in almost whole of China.The Effect of Herba Portulacae GrandifloraePropertyBitter, cold.ActionsIt is used t

NameMu Shu (Manihot Amylum seu Folium)SourcesThe drug is the starch or leaf of Manihot esculenta Crantz (Family Euphorbiaceae), cultivated in thick soils on hillsides, hilllands or sandy lands, cultivated in Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan and Yunnan of China.ConstituentsThe herb and tube