Di Gu Pi [1]

Posted by : admin on Feb 22, 2008 - 08:40 PM
Chinese Medicine Herbs / Clear Heat [2]

1 TASTE
Sweet or tasteless and cold

2 MERIDIANS
Lung and Kidney

3 FUNCTIONS
1. To cool blood; 2. To clear heat in the lungs

4 INDICATIONS
1. Heat is the blood and deficient yin manifested as afternoon fever and night sweating. Wolfberry bark (Di Gu Pi [3]) is used with Anemarrhena rhizome (Zhi Mu [4]) and Biota tops (Cedbiye)

5 DOSAGE
6-15 g

6 COUTIONS
This herb is contraindicated cases with fever due to common cold or weakness of the spleen accompanied by Diarrhea [5].

Di Gu Pi

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