Yin Chen

Alias: Mian Yin Chen, Yin Chen Artemisia, White Artemisia.

Taste and odor: bitter, pungent, slightly cold.

Meridian: to the spleen, stomach, liver, gallbladder meridian.

Medicinal Part: The dried above-ground part of Artemisia scoparza Waldst. et Kit. or Artemisia capillaris Thunb. in the family of Asteraceae.

Usage and dosage of Artemisia capillaris Thunb.

Dosage: 6～15g. Appropriate amount for external use, decoction and fumigation.

Concoction: remove the stubs and impurities, rubbed or chopped. Mian yin chen sifted to remove ash.

Efficacy and Indications

Functions: Clearing dampness and heat, relieving bile and relieving yellow.

Indications: used for jaundice and low urine, dampness and heat, wet sores and itching.

The compatibility of Yin Chen

1, "Typhoid Fever": Yin Chen, gardenia, rhubarb. Treatment of typhoid fever eight, nine days, body yellow as orange color, urination is unfavorable, the abdomen is slightly full.

2, "Yu Ji Wei Yi": Yin Chen, epiphyllum, dry ginger, moxibustion licorice. Treatment of cold and damp yin and yellow, hands and feet against cold, sunken and fine pulse, etc..

3, "food doctor heart mirror" Yin Chen soup: in addition to the yellow bile, typhoid headache, wind-heat miasma malaria, facilitate urination. In order to Yin Chen fine cut, boiled soup to eat. Raw food is also suitable.

Contraindications of Yin Chen

Caution is advised for those who accumulate blood and yellow and those who are deficient in blood and yellow.

The relevant discussion of Yin Chen

1, "Materia Medica Classic": Yin Chen, its main wind-dampness, cold and heat, the evil heat knot, jaundice, through the body yellow, urinary incontinence and head fever, all dampness and heat in the yangming, taiyin in the disease also. Bitter cold can dry dampness and remove heat, dampness and heat to go, then all the symptoms since subside. In addition to dampness dispersal of heat knot of the key medicine.

2, "Herbal Hook Description Yuan": hair Chen to new, and other flavors of the chase dampness and heat is different, and seepage for the work, especially difficult to match.

3, "the herb illustrated": yellow with yin and yang two, yin chen with gardenia, cypress to treat yang yellow, with epiphyllum, dry ginger to treat yin yellow. In short, Yin Chen is the king, with the cold and heat and the yellow evidence of yin and yang.

4, Bei Lu : Yin Chen born on the slopes and banks of Tai Shan and the hills, May and Autumn picking, drying. It is used to treat yellowing of the body, urination, removing heat from the head, and removing the obstruction in the abdomen.