Single Herbs - Heat Clearing & Drain Fire Herbs

Question 1

Shi Gao

Gypsum, Calcium Sulfate

Answer 1

Properties: SWEET, PUNGENT - COLD
Dosage 9 – 30g.
Meridian LUNG, STOMACH
-clear heat, drain fire – high fever with no chill, excessive thirst and sweat
-clear excess lung
heat – cough, wheezing, fever, thick yellow sputum
-clears blazing stomach
fire – headache, toothache, painful gums, halitosis -topically – eczema, burns, ulcerated sores

Question 2

Zhi Mu

Anemarrhena Rhizome

Answer 2

Properties: BITTER - COLD
Dosage 6 – 12g.
Meridian LUNG, KIDNEY, STOMACH
-Clear heat, drain fire – high fever in lung and stomach, irritability, thirst-nourish yin, moisten dryness – night sweat, steaming bone, irritability,kidney
heat patterns, spermatorrhea, nocturnal emission
-generates fluids and clears heat – oral ulcers and inflammation, thirs

Question 3

Zhi Zi Cape Jasmine Fruit

Gardenia jaminoides

Answer 3

Properties: BITTER - COLD
Dosage: 3 – 12g.
Meridian: HEART, LIVER, LUNG, STOMACH, SAN JIAO
-clear heat, eliminate vexation – irritable, restlessness, insomnia, delirium
-drains damp heat – urinary dysfunction, constrained
liver
and gallbladder causing
jaundice
-cools blood, stop bleeding – nosebleed, blood in vomit, dysentery, xue lin
-topically - blood stasis due to trauma, reduces swelling

Question 4

Dan Zhu Ye

Lophathrie Gracilis

Answer 4

Properties SWEET, BLAND - COLD
Dosage6 – 9g.
Meridian HEART, SMALL INTESTINE, STOMACH
clear heat in stomach or heart
- irritable, cankers, swollen-painful gums -promote urination – clear damp heat, lin syndrome -Heat in
small intestine– irritability, dark red tongue tip

Question 5

Xia Ku Cao

Prunella

Answer 5

Properties: BITTER, PUNGENT - COLD
Dosage: 9 – 15g.
Meridian: GALLBLADDER, LIVER USED ALONE – 30g.
ascending liver fire- dry-painful eye, brighten eyes, headache, dizzy -dissipate phlegm fire nodules – neck lumps, scrofula, lipomas, goiter-hypertension

Question 6

Lian Zi Xin

(Plumula Nelumbinis)

Answer 6

Properties: BITTER - COLD
Dosage: 1.5 – 6g.
Meridian: HEART, PERICARDIUM
-drains heart fire – confusion, delirium, insomnia, irritability
-stops bleeding, binds essence – vomiting blood

Question 7

Lu Gen Reed Rhizome

(Phragmites communis

Answer 7

Properties: SWEET - COLD
Dosage:15 – 30g.
Meridian LUNG, STOMACH USED ALONE – 60g.
-clear heat, generate fluids – high fever, irritability, thirst
-clear lung heat – cough, thick-yellow sputum
-clear stomach heat – vomiting, belching
-clear heat, diuretic – dark-scanty urine, xue lin, accompanied by thirst
-encourages rashes to surface

Question 8

Jue Ming Zi

Cassia obtusifolia L

Answer 8

Properties: Bitter, sweet, cool
Dosage 9-15g
Meridian: Liver, Kidney, Large Intestine
-Clear heat from the liver to benefit the eyes
Expel wind-heat to improve vision
Moisten intestines and unblock bowels

Question 9

Qing Xiang Zi

Celosia argentea L.

Answer 9

Properties SWEET - COOL
Dosage: 3 – 15g.
Meridian: LIVER
-drains liver fire, clears wind – improves vision, red-painful eyes -impaired-blurred vision – combine with
Jue Ming Zi and Mi Meng Hua

Question 10

Mi Meng Hua –buddleja fl.

Answer 10

Properties: SWEET - COOL
Dosage: 3 – 9g.
Buddleia Flower Bud
Meridian: LIVER
-benefits eyes – red-swollen eyes, excessive tearing, light sensitivity

Question 11

Tian Hua Fen

Trichoanthes Root

Answer 11

Properties: BITTER, SWEET - COLD
Dosage: 9 – 15g.
Meridian: LUNG, STOMACH
-drains lung
heat – transforms phlegm – moistens lung dryness
-drains heat, generates fluids – thirst, irritability, cough, thick sputum
-relieves toxicity, expels pus - toxic hot carbuncles, breast abscess