Herbs That Clear Heat And Detoxify

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 abscess’s 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 to 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

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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