Herb Listings
Huang Yao Zi / Dioscorea Tuber | |||
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Taste: Bitter • Temperature: Neutral • Category: Tranform Phlegm & Stop Coughing • Sub Category: Cool & Transform Phlegm-Heat | |||
Dosage6-15g, often taken in wine, or directly in powder or pill form. |
Actions1. Dissipates nodules & reduces masses: for goiter. Also used for many kinds of cancers, especially those involving the esophagus, stomach, uterus, & colon.2. Cools the blood & stops bleeding: for such symptoms as vomiting blood, coughing up blood, & uterine bleeding. 3. Reduces toxicity of toxic swellings topically for sores, snakebite, & dog bite. |
MeridiansHeart, Liver, Lung |
CautionsContraindicated for abscesses that have already ulcerated. Toxicity: preparations of huang yao zi have caused nausea & vomiting that required cessation of treatment. Significant liver damage & jaundice has resulted from the use of tinctures of this herb. |