Collected and processed steamed through or boiling water moistened through slices. Used raw, stir-fried in wine or stir-fried with charcoal.
The taste is bitter, cold and non-toxic.
Effects and Indications Clearing heat and drying dampness - damp-warm syndrome, damp-heat obstruction, warm-heat jaundice, warm-heat diarrhea, heat drenching; diarrhea and detoxification of qi, shao yang syndrome, lung-heat cough, carbuncle, swollen sores and poisons; stopping bleeding, blood-heat paranoia; tranquilizing the fetus, fetal heat paranoia. This taste bitter cold, if to dry dampness, cold to clear heat, can clear the lung, large intestine, stomach, gallbladder meridians of dampness and heat, especially long in the clearing of the fire of the upper burner and drain the heat, and has the effect of diarrhea and detoxification. It is often used in a variety of diseases caused by damp-heat, such as damp-heat, damp-heat obstruction, jaundice, diarrhea, hot lymph, etc.; also commonly used in the treatment of fever fever, lung fever, cough, carbuncle, swelling, sores and poisoning. It can also stop bleeding and stabilize the fetus, treating epistaxis and hematemesis caused by blood-heat, as well as fetal restlessness caused by heat in the fetus.
Ancillary formula of this product is strong in clearing heat and drying dampness, and can be used in damp-heat disease with fever, chest tightness, nausea and greasy moss, which can be combined with osmotic and dampness-reducing medicines such as Talcum officinale and Talcum officinale, and for damp-heat obstruction, plumping up and vomiting, it is often used in conjunction with Huang Lian (Huanglian), Hanxia (Hanxia), and Gan Jiang (Gan Jiang), such as Hanxia Diarrhea and Heart Soup; it is used for jaundice with damp-heat, which can be supplemented by Fungus Chen (Cynomorium chen), Mast, and Da Huang (Rhizoma Dahuang), in order to enhance its efficacy of cleansing the liver and gallbladder. For diarrhea and dysentery, it is often used with Huanglian, Paeonia lactiflora and Muxiang, such as Paeonia lactiflora soup; for lower Jiao damp-heat, astringent pain in urination, it can be used with Radix et Rhizoma Shengdi and Mutong.
Wood products diarrhea fire detoxification and long in clearing lung heat, used for lung heat cough, can be used alone, that is, scutellaria loose, can also be equipped with Sangbai Pi, Zhimu and so on, such as clearing the lung soup; used for fever fever fever and thirst, often with gypsum, gardenia, Huanglian; used for shao yang evidence of cold and heat exchanges, with chaihu, such as the small chaihu soup; used for carbuncle, swollen sores and poisons, with Huanglian, cypress, gardenia, such as Huanglian antidotes soup, or with smallpox powder, since dahurica, Lianqiao, and so on.
This product is used in the treatment of carbuncle and sores, such as Xiao Chai Hu Tang.
This product clears heat and fire and stops bleeding, and is used for vomiting blood, epistaxis, biting blood, stool blood, and leakage, etc. It can be used with Scutellaria baicalensis charcoal alone, or paired with Radix et Rhizoma Shengdi, Radix et Rhizoma Cyperi, Panax notoginseng, etc., or Rhubarb and Rhizoma Coptidis, e.g. Diarrhea of the Heart and the Intestines.
This product has the effect of clearing heat and tranquilizing the fetus, and is used in cases of restlessness of the fetus with fever, and is often used with Angelica sinensis, Paeonia lactiflora, and Atractylodes macrocephala, such as Danggui San.