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Jin Yin Hua Properties: SWEET - COLD Dosage: 9 15g.
Honeysuckle Flower Meridian: LARGE INTESTINE, LUNG, STOMACH
(Lonicera) -clear heat, relieves toxic fire throat/breast/eye painful swellings
-expel wind heat fever, aversion to wind, sore throat, headache
-clear damp heat from lower Jiao dysentery, lin syndrome
Lian Qiao Properties: BITTER, PUNGENT - COOL Dosage: 6 15g.
Forsynthia Fruit Meridian: HEART, LIVER, GALLBLADDER
-clear heat and toxins - dissipates nodules, carbuncles and hot sores
-expel wind heat fever, chills, sore throat, headache
Da Qing Ye Properties: BITTER - COLD Dosage: 9 30g.
Woad Leaf (Indigo) Meridian: HEART, LUNG STOMACH
-clear heat, relieve toxicity contagious febrile disease outbreak
-cools blood, reduce blotches skin eruptions, intense fever, irritability
Ban Lan Gen Properties: BITTER - COLD Dosage: 15 30g.
Woad Root Meridian: HEART, LUNG, STOMACH
(Isatis Root) -drain toxic heat and fire, cools blood mumps, painful swollen throat
-damp heat jaundice
Qing Dai Properties: SALTY - COLD Dosage: 1.5 3g.
Pulverata Levis Meridian: LIVER, LUNG, STOMACH
-clear heat, relieves toxicity, cools blood, disperses swellings, topically for inflamed oral cavity or throat
-lung heat - cough
Bai Hua Shi shi Cao Properties: BITTER, SWEET - COLD Dosage: 15 60g.
Heydyotis (Oldenlandia) Meridian: LIVER, STOMACH, LARGE INTESTINE
-clear toxic heat and fire reduce abscess, toxic sores, ulcerations, swellings, snakebite (internal and external application)
-clear heat and damp promotes urination, lin syndrome, jaundice
Zi Hua di Ding Properties: PUNGENT, BITTER - COLD Dosage: 9 15g.
Yedeons Violet Meridian: HEART, LIVER
-clear toxic heat and fire hot swellings, red-swollen eyes/throat/ears
-clear hot sores sores and abscesss of head and back - topically
Pu Gong Ying Properties: BITTER, SWEET - COLD Dosage: 9 30g.
Dandelion Meridian: LIVER, STOMACH
-clear toxic heat and fire liver heat with red-swollen-painful eyes
-dissipates nodules and abscess firm-hard sores
-promotes lactation due to heat
-clear heat, resolves damp jaundice, lin syndrome
Ye Ju Hua Properties: BITTER, PUNGENT - COOL Dosage: 6 12g.
Wild Chrysanthemum Meridian: LUNG, LIVER
Flower -clear toxic heat and fire carbuncles, swollen throat, wind-fire, red eyes
Hong Teng Properties: BITTER, NEUTRAL Dosage: 15 30g.
Sargentadoxa Vine Meridian: LARGE INTESTINE, LIVER
-clear toxic heat and abscess skin lesions, swelling pain
-invigorate blood, disperse stasis trauma, dysmenorrhoea, joint pain
Bai Jiang Cao Properties: PUNGENT, BITTER - COOL Dosage: 9 15g.
Patrinia (Thiaspi) Meridian: LARGE INTESTINE, LIVER, STOMACH
-clear toxic heat and fire expel pus, abscess, sores, swellings
-dispel blood stasis, stop pain abdominal / chest stasis, traumatic injury
Bai Xian Pi Properties: BITTER - COLD Dosage: 6 9g.
Dictamnus Root Bark Meridian: SPLEEN, STOMACH
-clears toxic heat and fire, expels wind, dries damp sores, carbuncles, rashes with excessive pus, moist skin, jaundice
Yu Xing Cao Properties: PUNGENT - COOL Dosage: 15 - 60g.
Houttuynia Meridian: LARGE INTESTINE, LUNG
-clear toxic lung heat swellings, abscess, thick-yellow sputum
-relieves toxicity expels pus for toxic sores (internal and external)
-drains damp heat promote urination, diarrhea, lin syndrome
Ma Chi Xian Properties: SOUR - COLD Dosage: 15 60g.
Purslane (Portulaca) Meridian: LARGE INTESTINE, LIVER
-clear toxic fire, cool blood dysentery, lin syndrome
-clear damp heat, treats sores carbuncles, red-white leucorrhea
-antidote wasp sting, snakebite
Bai Tou Weng Properties: BITTER - COLD Dosage: 6 - 15g.
Chinese Anemone Root Meridian: LARGE INTESTINE, LIVER, STOMACH
Pulsatilla -clear toxic heat and fire dysentery (damp heat in stomach)
Qin Pi Properties: BITTER - COLD Dosage: 4.5 15g.
Bark of Korean Ash Branch Meridian: GALLBLADDER, LIVER, STOMACH, LARGE INTESTINE
-drain damp heat dysentery
-drain liver fire eye disorders, visual obstruction
-clear wind-damp painful hot obstruction
She Gan Properties: BITTER - COLD Dosage: 1.5 9g.
Belamcanda Rhizome Meridian: LUNG
-clear toxic heat pain-swollen throat with phlegm heat
-transforms phlegm, clears lung cough, wheezing and phlegm
Ma Bo Properties: PUNGENT - NEUTRAL Dosage: 1.5 4.5g.
Fruiting Body Of Puffball Meridian: LUNG
(Lasiosphaera) -clears toxic lung fire painful-swollen throat, loss of voice, cough
-applied topically to stop bleeding oral cavity and lips