Heat-Clearing and Blood-cooling Herbs
Xuan Cao Gen (Daylily Root)
Name
Xuan Cao Gen (Radices Hemerocallis)
The Effect of 萱草根
Property
Sweet, cool; spleen, lung and heart meridians entered.
Actions
Promote diuresis and cool blood.
Indications
Jaundice, nose bleeding, stranguria with turbid discharge, difficult urination, edema, morbid leucorrhea, hematochezia, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis, acute mastitis.
Dosage and Administrations
Decoct 6~9 g, or pounded into juice. Proper dosage is for external application. Pounded into powder for applying.
Cautions
It can not be taken overdose.
Sources and further reading
We cite classical materia medica and modern reference works. This article is health education, not medical advice.
- Shennong Bencao Jing (The Divine Farmer's Materia Medica), Han dynasty.
- Bencao Gangmu (Compendium of Materia Medica), Li Shizhen, 1578.
- Chinese Pharmacopoeia, current edition — identity, quality and safety monographs.
- NCCIH and WHO reference material on traditional medicine safety.
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