Herbs That Clear Deficient Heat

Di Gu Pi

Properties: SWEET  – COLD

Dosage: 6 – 15g.

Wolfberry Root Cortex

Meridian:LUNG, LIVER, KIDNEY

-drain Yin deficient fire – night sweat, steaming bone, irritability, thirst

-clear lung heat – cough, wheezing

-clear heat, cool blood – nosebleed, vomit blood, xue lin

-drain floating kidney fire – toothache

Yin Chai Hu

Properties: SWEET  – COOL

Dosage: 3 – 9g.

Stellaria Root

Meridian:LIVER, STOMACH

-clear deficient heat – steaming bone, deficient yin fever

-clear heat – fever, thirst, irritability, childhood nutritional impairment

-cool blood, stop bleeding – coughing up blood, nosebleed, xue lin

Hu Huang Lian

Properties: BITTER  – COLD

Dosage: 3 – 9g.

Picrorhiza Rhizome

Meridian:LIVER, STOMACH, LARGE INTESTINE

-drain damp heat – dysentery, sores

-clear deficient heat – yin deficiency heat symptoms

-clear heat – reduce childhood nutritional impairment, abdominal distention, afternoon fever, dysentery, diarrhea

Bai Wei

Properties: BITTER, SALTY  – COLD

Dosage: 6 – 15g.

Swallowwort Root

Meridian:LUNG STOMACH, KIDNEY

-clear heat, cool blood – yin deficient fever, post partum fever

-cools blood, promote urination – xue lin

-relieves toxicity – toxic sores, swollen-painful throat, snake bite

Qing Hao

Properties: BITTER  – COLD

Dosage: 3 – 9g.

Wormwood

Meridian:KIDNEY, LIVER, GALLBLADDER

-clear summer heat – fever, headache, dizzy, stifling sensation in chest

-clear deficient fever – unremitting fever with no sweating

-cool blood, stop bleeding – purpuric rash, nosebleed

-malarial disorders – alternating fever and chills

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