Herb Listings
Lu Gen / Phragmites | |||
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Taste: Sweet • Temperature: Cold • Category: Clear Heat • Sub Category: Drain Fire | |||
Dosage15-30g, up to 60g if used alone |
Actions1. Clears heat & generates fluids: for heat patterns with such symptoms as high fever, irritability, & thirst.2. Clears heat from the Lungs: for Lung heat patterns with cough & expectoration of thick, yellow sputum. Especially useful in acute stage. 3. Clears Stomach heat: for such symptoms as vomiting & belching. 4. Clears heat & promotes urination: for dark, scanty urine or blood in the urine, especaially when accompainid by irrritability & thirst. 5. Encourages rashes to surface: for febrile diseases with rashes that are incompletely expressed. |
MeridiansLung, Stomach |
CautionsContraindicated in cases of Spleen or Stomach cold from deficiency. |