Herbs that Clear Heat / Cool Blood

Question 1

shu~i ni`u jia_o

Answer 1

water buffalo horn. Cornu bubablis

1) clears-H, cools xue, !bleeding
2) clears-H, stops tremor

salty, bitter, cold

Question 2

sh_eng d`i hua’ng ***

Answer 2

rehmannia “rehmannia glutinosa”
“road tar, to pour into cracked yin roads – dries and smoothes” (hair, skin, bones, KD, pre-mature aging…)

1) clears H, cools xue (menopause, hot flashes, dry sexual area)
2) nourishes y1, benefits fluids (anti-aging)

sweet, bitter, cold (sticky, cloying)
HT, LV, KD

X: earth deficiency, diarrhea, anti-diabetic drugs

*great results, as long as the patient can digest it, more nourishing than Xuan Shen, but not as good as tx infx.

Question 3

xua’n she_n **

Answer 3

figwort root “scrophularia ningpoensis”

1) clears ying & xue level-H (blood-heat, yin def-H)
2) clears heat-toxin (infections)
3) nourishes yin & fluids (like sheng di Huang, but not as good)
4) softens hardness (lymphnodes, hemorrhoids)

salty, sweet, bitter, cold
LU, ST, KD

X: Sp/St coldness, Li Lu (herb), anti-diabetic drugs (on top of Xuan Shen’s anti-diabetic properties)

*hemmorhoids

Question 4

Mu~ Da_n Pi’ ***

Answer 4

tree peony root bark. “paeonia suffruticosa”

1) clears-H, cools blood (bleeding:hematuria, mettroragia) (XS-H)
2) clears def-H (yin organ-def H) (oil change for car)
3) moves blood (spicy taste moves!) (fibroids, t: dusky, p: choppy)
4) clears H-toxin, swelling (infx)

bitter, spicy, sl. cold
HT, LV, KD

X: pregnancy, menses, def.-C, anticoagulants

• car returning from LA back to SF*
• (in Jia Wei Xiao Yao San)

Question 5

Ch`i Sha’o ***

Answer 5

red peony root “paeonia veitchii”

1) clears-H, cools blood (bleeding!)
2) moves blood (tumors, fibroids)
3) clears LV-H & eyes (internal heat, too much busy-doing)
4) clears-H, promotes urine (prevents UTI)

sour, bitter, sl. cold
SP, LV

X: blood-def, Li Lu, anti-coagulants

*no tonification, just cooling

• Bai shao - tonifies*
• red shao - moves - blood level*

Question 6

Bleeding

Answer 6

hematuria:
mettroragia:
epistaxis:
hemmoragia:
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Question 7

Zi~ Ca~o

Answer 7

purple herb “lithospermum”

1) clears-H, cools blood (
2) clears damp-H from skin (acne, burns, skin problems)*
3) moistens intestines

sweet, cold
HT, LV

X: diarrhea, may contain carcinogenic alkaloids (…)

*acute damp-H psoriasis vs. dry, chronic, yin-def psoriasis

Question 8

Ba’i We’i

Answer 8

swallowwort root “cynanchum atratum”
‘white rose’

1) clears xs & def-H, cools blood**

salty, bitter, cold
LU, ST, KD

X: cold SP/ST

Question 9

D`i G~u P’i

Answer 9

lycium root bark (from wolfberries/goji berries!) “lycium barbarum”

1) clears H, cools blood, stops bleeding
2) clears LU-H (yellow gooping your lungs)
3) clears deficiency-H (“steaming bones” - hot flash, false Heat because it’s not a H-XS!)

sweet, bland, cold
LU, KD, LV

X: Cold SP/ST, anti-diabetic drugs