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Cool Blood

Sheng Di Huang Properties:SWEET, BITTER - COLD Dosage: 9 – 30g.

Chinese Foxglove Root Meridian: HEART, KIDNEY, LIVER

Rehmannia -clear heat, cool blood – high fever, thirst, scarlet tongue

-nourish yin, generate fluids – dry mouth, constipation

-cools ascending heart fire – cankers, irritability, insomnia, malar flush

-wasting thirst disorder

Xuan Shen Properties: SWEET, SALTY, BITTER - COLD Dosage: 9 – 30g.

Ningpo Figwort Root Meridian: KIDNEY, LUNG, STOMACH

(Scrophularia) -clear heat, cool blood – bleeding, fever, dry mouth

-nourish yin – constipation, irritability

-drain fire, relieve toxicity – swollen-red eyes, , sore throat

-soften hardness, dissipates phlegm fire nodules – swollen-sore throat

Mu Dan Pi Properties: PUNGENT, BITTER - COOL Dosage: 6 – 12g..

Tree Peony Root Cortex Meridian: HEART, LIVER, KIDNEY

-clear heat, cool blood – nose bleed, bloody sputum, profuse menses

-clear deficient fire – steaming bone, no sweating

-clears liver blood stasis – amenorrhea, abdominal mass, bruise’s

-clears rising liver fire – headache, eye pain, dysmenorrhoea

-drains pus, reduces swelling – topically for non-draining sores

Zi Cao Properties: SWEET - COLD Dosage: 3 – 9 g.

Groomwell Root Meridian: HEART, LIVER

(Lithospermum) -relieves toxic fire, cool blood – encourages progression of rashes to vent

-topically - clears damp heat – damp heat skin lesion, itching

-moisten intestines, unblocks bowels - constipation

Chi Shao Yao Properties: SOUR, BITTER - COOL Dosage: 4.5 – 9g.

Red Peony Root Meridian: LIVER, SPLEEN

-invigorate blood, dispel stasis – dysmenorrhoea, amenorrhea, abdominal pain and masses, traumatic pain associated with swelling and pain

-clears heat, cool blood – blotchy skin, bleeding, irregular menses