Taste and flavor: sweet, bitter, cold, to the heart, liver, kidney meridian.
Functions: Clearing heat and cooling blood, nourishing yin and generating fluids, used for heat into the camp blood, warm poisonous spots, hematemesis, epistaxis, fever addiction, tongue redness and thirst, constipation due to fluid injury, fever due to yin deficiency, bone vaporization and labor heat, and thirst due to internal heat.
Usage and dosage: decoction, 10-15g, doubling the dosage of fresh product, or fresh product leading to medicine.
Precautions: It is not suitable for people with spleen deficiency and dampness stagnation, abdominal fullness and loose stools.
2 Xuan Shen
Characteristics: sweet, bitter, salty, slightly cold, belonging to the lung, stomach, kidney meridian.
Functions: clearing heat and cooling the blood, nourishing yin and lowering fire, detoxifying and dispersing, used for heat into the yin and blood, warm toxin spotting, fever and yin injury, tongue redness and thirst, constipation, bone vapor and consumptive coughing, redness of the eyes, sore throat, diphtheria, scrofula, carbuncle, swelling and sores.
Dosage: decoction, 10-15g.
Precautions: not suitable for people with cold spleen and stomach, loose food, and should not be used with quinoa.
3 Mudanpi
Taste and attributes: bitter, sweet, cold, to the heart, liver, kidney meridian.
Functions: Clearing heat and cooling blood, activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis. It is used in treating heat entering the camp blood, warm poisonous spots, epistaxis, night fever and early coolness, sweating and bone vaporization, menstrual cramps and dysmenorrhea, bruises and pains, carbuncles, swellings, sores and poisons.
Dosage: Decoction of 6-12g, for clearing heat and cooling blood, it should be used in raw form, and for activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis, it should be used in wine and moxibustion.
Precautions: cold blood deficiency, menorrhagia and pregnant women should not be used.
4 Red peony
Characteristics and attributes: bitter, slightly cold, to the liver meridian.
Functions and Indications: Clearing heat and cooling blood, dispersing blood stasis and relieving pain. It is used for the treatment of heat into the camp blood, warm toxins, epistaxis, eye redness and pain, liver depression and dystocia, menstrual pain and menstrual occlusion, bruises, carbuncle sores and ulcers.
Dosage: Decoction of 6-12g.
Precautions: Not suitable for menstrual closure with cold blood, not to be used with quinoa.