Herbs That 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

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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