Single Herbs - Deficient Heat

Question 1

Di gu pi – lycium cort. Wolfberry Root Cortex

Answer 1

Herbs that Clear Deficient Heat
Properties: SWEET - COLD
Dosage: 6 – 15g.
Meridian: LUNG, LIVER, KIDNEY
-drain Yin deficient fire – night sweat, steaming bone, irritability, thirst -clear lung
heat – cough, wheezing
-clear heat, cool blood – nosebleed, vomit blood, xue lin
-drain floating kidneyfire - toothache

Question 2

Qing hao – artemesia ann. h. Wormwood

Answer 2

Properties BITTER - COLD
Dosage: 3 – 9g.
Meridian KIDNEY, LIVER, GALLBLADDER
-clear summer heat – fever, headache, dizzy, stifling sensation in chest
clear deficient fever – unremitting fever with no sweating
-cool blood, stop bleeding – purpuric rash, nosebleed
-malarial disorders – alternating fever and chills

Question 3

Yin chai hu – stellaria rad Stellaria Root

Answer 3

properties SWEET - COOL
Dosage 3 – 9g.
Meridian: LIVER, STOMACH
-clear deficient heat – steaming bone, deficient yin fever
-clear heat – fever, thirst, irritability, childhood nutritional impairment
-cool blood, stop bleeding – coughing up blood, nosebleed, xue lin

Question 4

huang lian – picrorhiza rhiz

Answer 4

Properties: BITTER - COLD
Dosage: 3 – 9g.
Meridian
: LIVER, STOMACH, LARGE INTESTINE -drain damp heat – dysentery, sores -clear deficient heat – yin deficiency heat symptoms -clear heat – reduce childhood nutritional impairment,
abdominal distention, afternoon fever, dysentery

Question 5

Bai wei – cynanchi atr. rad. Swallowwort Root

Answer 5

Properties: BITTER, SALTY - COLD
Dosage 6 – 15g.
Meridian
:LUNG STOMACH, KIDNEY
-clear heat, cool blood
- yin deficient fever, post partum fever
-cools blood, promote urination – xue lin
-relieves toxicity – toxic sores, swollen-painful throat, snake bite