Herbs That Clear Heat And Dry Damp

Huang Qin

Properties:BITTER  – COLD

Dosage: 6 – 15g.

Baical Skullcap Root Meridian: GALLBLADDER, LARGE INTESTINE, LUNG, STOMACH

(Scutellaria)

-clear heat, drain fire – upper burner, fever, irritability, thirst, cough

-clear heat, dry damp – stomach – diarrhea, dysentery, thirst with no desire to drink, lin syndrome, jaundice

-clear heat, stop bleeding – vomit/cough blood, nosebleed, blood in stool

-clear heat, calm fetus – restless fetus due to heat

-clear liver yang rising – headache, irritability, red eyes, bitter taste

Huang Lian

Properties: BITTER   – COLD

Dosage: 1.5 – 9g.

Coptis Rhizome Meridian:HEART, LARGE INTESTINE, LIVER, STOMACH

-drain fire, relieve toxicity – high fever, irritability, disorientation, delirium, painful-red eyes, sore throat, boils carbuncles, abscesses

-clear heat, drain damp – stomach – diarrhea, dysentery, acid reflux, halitosis, belching

-clear heart fire – irritability, insomnia

-topically – red-painful ulcerations

Huang Bai

Properties: BITTER  – COLD

Dosage: 3 – 12g.

Amur Cork Tree Bark Meridian: KIDNEY, BLADDER

(Phellodendron)  -drain damp heat – lower jiao – thick-yellow leucorrhea, diarrhea, dysentery, red-swollen-painful knee joints, jaundice

-drains kidney fire – steaming bone, night sweat, afternoon fever

-drain fire, relieve toxicity – sores and lesions

Long Dan Cao

Properties: BITTER  – COLD

Dosage: 3 – 9g.

Chinese Gentian Root Meridian: GALLBLADDER, LIVER, STOMACH

(Gentiana)

-drain damp heat from liver and gallbladder – red-swollen-sore throat/eyes/ears, jaundice, painful-swollen genitals, leucorrhea

-clears ascending liver fire – headache, red eyes, fever, spasm, convulsions

Ku shen

Properties: BITTER  – COLD

Dosage: 3 – 15g.

Sophora Root

Meridian:

BLADDER, HEART, LIVER, LARGE INTESTINE, SMALL INTESTINE

-clear heat, dry damp – dysentery, leucorrhea, jaundice, sores

-expels wind, kills parasites – itching, skin lesions

-clear heat, promote urination – lin syndrome, hot edema

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