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Clearing Heat

Herbs That Clear Heat

Herbs in this category clear interior heat which will show the symptoms of fever without chills, dry mouth, thirst, irritability, scanty urine, dark yellow urine, yellow tongue coating, constipation or diarrhea and possible abdominal distention.

Shi Gao Properties: SWEET, PUNGENT - COLD Dosage: 9 – 30g.

Gypsum 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

Zhi Mu Properties: BITTER - COLD Dosage: 6 – 12g.

Anemarrhena Rhizome 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, thirst

Zhi Zi Properties: BITTER - COLD Dosage: 3 – 12g.

Cape Jasmine Fruit Meridian: HEART, LIVER, LUNG, STOMACH, SAN JIAO

(Gardenia) -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

Lu Gen Properties: SWEET - COLD Dosage:15 – 30g.

Reed Rhizome 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 rash’s to surface

Tian Hua Fen Properties: BITTER, SWEET - COLD Dosage: 9 – 15g.

Trichosanthes Root 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

Lian Zi Xin Properties: BITTER - COLD Dosage: 1.5 – 6g.

Lotus Plumule Meridian: HEART, PERICARDIUM

-drains heart fire – confusion, delirium, insomnia, irritability

-stops bleeding, binds essence – vomiting blood

Xia Ku Cao Properties: BITTER, PUNGENT - COLD Dosage: 9 – 15g.

Selfheal Spike Meridian: GALLBLADDER, LIVER USED ALONE – 30g.

(Prunella) -ascending liver fire- dry-painful eye, brighten eyes, headache, dizzy -dissipate phlegm fire nodules – neck lumps, scrofula, lipoma, goiter

-hypertension

Qing Xiang Zi Properties: SWEET - COOL Dosage: 3 – 15g.

Celosia Seeds Meridian: LIVER

-drains liver fire, clears wind – improves vision, red-painful eyes

-impaired-blurred vision – combine with Jue Ming Zi and Mi Meng Hua

Mi Meng Hua Properties: SWEET - COOL Dosage: 3 – 9g.

Buddleia Flower Bud Meridian: LIVER

-benefits eyes – red-swollen eyes, excessive tearing, light sensitivity

Gu Jing Cao Properties: SWEET - NEUTRAL Dosage: 6 – 15g.

Pipewort Scapus Meridian: LIVER, STOMACH

(Inflorescence) -disperse wind-heat – brighten eyes, red-painful eyes, floaters

Mu Zei Properties: SWEET, BITTER - NEUTRAL Dosage: 3 – 9g.

Scouring Rush Meridian: LIVER, LUNG

(Shave Grass) -disperse wind-heat – red-painful eyes, blurred vision, pterygium

-clear heat, stop bleeding – blood in stool, haemorrhoids

Clearing Heat

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Herbs That Clear Heat