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Toxic Heat in wind heat or febrile disease (interior and exterior). Main herb for strong heat in wind heat. Good for heat in both wei and qi level.
Wind heat with fever Carbuncles and boils Dysentery and diarrhea |
Jin Yin Hua
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Toxic Heat in wind heat or febrile disease (interior and exterior). Good at dispersing heat in heart and upper jiao. Dissipates nodules due to toxic heat. Holy herb for carbucles.
Assist Jin Yin Heat entering Pericardium Carbuncles or scrofula |
Lian Qiao
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Toxic heat mainly manifested as carbuncles. Both for external and internal carbuncles. More specific for acute mastitis. Clear damp heat.
Acute mastitis Other carbuncle or internal abscess strnaguria or jaundice due to damp heat |
Pu Gong Ying
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Toxic heat mainly manifested as carbuncles. Ding means nail. Especially Ding carbuncle
Mainly used for ding. Also used for snake bite. |
Zi Hua Di Ding
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Toxic heat mainly manifested as carbuncles. Literally means big blue leaf. Big blue strong toxic heat in local area that is very cold in nature.
Cool blood to subdue macula other strong toxic heat cellulitis, sore throat |
Da Qing Ye
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Toxic heat in Liver and Heart. Means blue, related to liver. Liver fire attacks heart or lung. Specifically for mumps in carbuncles.
Bleeding due blood heat Convulsion due to liver heat Cough with rapid breathing due to liver fire attacking lung |
Qing (Blue) Dai
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Toxic heat in Liver and Heart. Means stopping restlessness or convulsion. Mainly used for carbuncles.
Convulsion due to liver heat Delirium or coma due to heart heat Carbuncle or snake bite |
Zao Xiu (Stopping restlessness or convulsion)
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Toxic heat in Liver and Heart. More specific for strong heat in heart and liver. Carbuncles due to toxic heat.
Mainly for coma or convulsion in febrile disease Topical use for carbuncles |
Niu Huang
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Toxic Heat in the lung. Specifically for excessive heat or toxic heat in the lung. Means Lotus (which lives in water)
Cough, asthma or lung abscess Dysentery, diarrhea, or stranguria |
Chuan Xin Lian (Lotus)
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Toxic Heat in the lung. Specifically for lung abscess. Literally means fishy fishy herb.
Clear heat and drain pus in lung abscess Stranguria due to heat |
Yu Xing Cao
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Toxic heat with sore throat. Literally means shooting up. Sore throat or asthma due to lung heat with lots of phlegm.
Sore throat with hot phlegm Cough or asthma due to excessive phlegm |
She Gan
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Toxic heat with sore throat. Very important for sore throat due to toxic heat. Also clears and removes dampness.
Sore throat Cough or asthma due to lung heat Jaundice due to damp heat |
Shan Dou Gen
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Toxic heat with sore throat. Sore throat with hoarseness due to lung heat. Cools blood.
Cough, sore throat or hoarseness Bleeding due to lung heat or stomach heat |
Ma Bo
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Toxic heat with dysentery. Clear heat, cools blood. Induces diuresis.
Dysentery due to damp heat Leukorrhea due to toxic heat or damp heat Stranguria due to heat or with blood |
Ma Chi Xian
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Toxic heat with dysentery. Purge liver fire to improve vision.
Dysentery Red or swollen eyes |
Qin Pi
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Toxic Heat in Intestine. Literally means red vine. Specific for abdominal pain in intestinal abscess.
Abdominal pain and abscess (large intestine) Trauma, dysmenorrhea or bi syndrome (arthritis) |
Hong Teng
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Toxic Heat in Intestine. Means deteriorated soy juice herb. Specific for draining pus.
Drains pus in intestinal abscess or lung abscess chest or abdominal pain due to blood stasis |
Bai Jiang Cao
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Toxic Heat in Cancer. Also used for snake bite. Different cancers. Lotus lives in water.
Traditionally used for worm or insect stings. used for cancer or edema |
Ban Bian Lian (Lotus)
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Toxic Heat in Cancer. For cancer of GI. Treats carbuncles. Induce diuresis.
Cancer of GI (esophageal, rectal) Stranguria Snake Bite, Sore throat Skin infection |
Bai Hua She She Cao (grass)
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Toxic heat or Fire Local Symptoms—syphilis or convulsive limbs due to mercury poisoning.
Carbuncles Stranguria |
Tu Fu Ling
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Toxic Heat or Fire Local Symptoms—warts or foot corns. very bitter in taste. Has to be taken after being wrapped with Long Yan Rou.
Malaria Dysentery Foot corns or warts |
Ya Dan Zi
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Toxic Heat or Fire Local Symptoms—means white, fresh skin. Used for skin disorders with a lot of secretion and severe itching.
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Bai Xian Pi
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Toxic Heat or Fire Local Symptoms—Means leaking breast. More specific for Mastitis or failure of milk to come out.
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Lou lu
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Toxic Heat or fire Local Symptoms—Food poisoning or summer heat.
Relieve food poisoning of Ba Dou, Fu Zi, or other hot agents Relieve summer heat Carbuncles |
Lu Dou (Mung Beans)
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