Single Herbs - Clear Heat & Cool Blood

Question 1

Shui niu jiao – bubali cornu
Shui niu jiao – bubali cornu replacement for
Xi Jiao

Answer 1

Properties: Salty, Cold
Dosage 10-40 qian (30-120 grams) 
powder: 2-5 qian (6-15 grams) 
Meridians: Heart, Liver, Stomach 
--Clear Heat & Cool Blood, for Heat in Blood level 
--Clear Blood Heat, stop bleeding 
--Clear Heat-Toxin
--Clear Heat and suppress tremors

Question 2

Sheng di huang – rehmannia rad

Answer 2

Properties SWEET, BITTER - COLD
Dosage: 9 – 30
Meridian HEART, KIDNEY, LIVER
-clear heat, cool blood – high fever, thirst, scarlet tongue
-nourish yin, generate fluids – dry mouth, constipation
-cools ascending
heart fire – cankers, irritability, insomnia, malar flush
-wasting thirst disorder

Question 3

Xuan shen – scrophularia rad.Figwort Root

Answer 3

Properties: SWEET, SALTY, BITTER - COLD
Dos Ningpo
Meridian: KIDNEY, LUNG, STOMACH(Scrophularia)
-clear heat, cool blood – bleeding, fever, dry mouth
-nourish yin – constipation, irritability -drain fire, relieve toxicity– swollen-red eyes, , sore throat
-soften hardness, dissipates phlegm fire nodules – swollen-sore thr

Question 4

Mu dan pi – moutan cort.

Answer 4

Properties PUNGENT, BI
Dosage 6 – 12g..
Meridian HEART, LIVER, KIDNEY
-clear heat, cool blood – nose bleed, bloody sputum, profuse mens -clear deficient fire – steamin
g bone, no sweating -clears
liver blood stasis – amenorrhea, abdominal mass, bruise’s -clears rising
liverfire – headache, eye pain, dysmenorrhoea
-drains pus, reduces swelling – topically for non-draining sores

Question 5

Zi Cao – arnebia/lithospermi rad

Answer 5

Properties: SWEET - COLD
Dosage: 3 – 9 g.
Meridian HEART, LIVER(-relieves toxic fire, cool blood – encourages progression of rashes to vent -topically - clears damp heat – damp heat skin lesion, itching
moisten intestines, unblocks bowels - constipation

Question 6

Chi Shao –peonia lact.

Answer 6

Properties SOUR, BITTER - COOL
Dosage: 4.5 – 9g.
Red Peony Root
Meridian LIVER, SPLEEN
-invigorate blood, dispel stasis
– dysmenorrhoea, amenorrhea, abdominal pain and ma
sses, traumatic pain
associated with swelling and pain
-clears heat, cool blood – blotchy skin, bleeding, irregular menses