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How to remember the actions of herbs? (5)

Heat-Clearing and Dampness-Drying Herbs

Herbs

Actions

Huang Qin

(Scutellaria Root)

Clear away heat and remove dampness

Purge the sthenic fire and remove toxic materials

Stop bleeding to prevent miscarriage

Huang Lian

(Coptis Root)

Clear away heat and remove dampness

Purge the sthenic fire and remove toxic materials

 

Huang Bai

(Phellodendron Bark)

Clear away heat and remove dampness

Purge the sthenic fire and remove toxic materials

Reduce asthenia-heat and bone steaming

Long Dan Cao

(Gentian Root)

Clear away heat and remove dampness

Purge sthenic-fire from the liver and gallbladder

 

Ku Shen

(Flavescent Sophora Root)

Clear away heat and remove dampness

 

Promote diuresis,kill worms

 

Herbs for Clearing Heat of Deficiency Type

Herbs

Actions

Qing Hao

(Sweet Wormwood)

Clear away asthenic-heat

Clear away summer-heat

Prevent recurrence of malaria

 

Bai Wei

(Swallowwort Root)

Clear away asthenic-heat

Cool the blood

Promote diuresis and relieve stranguria

Eliminate toxin to treat sore

Di Gu Pi

(Wolfberry Bark)

Clear away asthenic-heat

reduce bone steaming

Cool the blood

Clear the lung to lower lung-fire

 

Yin Chai Hu(Stellaria Root)

Clear away asthenic-heat

 

Reduce fever of infantile malnutrition

 

Hu Huang Lian (Rhizoma Picrorrhizae)

Clear away asthenic-heat

 

Reduce fever of infantile malnutrition

Eliminate dampness-heat

 

Written by Hu Xiaohua

Medboo TCM training center

 


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