Clear Heat, Relieve Toxicity
this can treat deep problems like the ying and blood because this herb has an opening function. It actually drags the inside to the outside.
perhaps not for this, CJ suggests that the report may have come herbs used in conjunction with antibiotics (intravenus)
this has clear heat and detoxify function, at the same time has rising, floating, opening spreading property.
this can circulate qi and blood, that's the reason that this is an important herb for abscess
+ severe cold, clear the heat - taste bitter, have purging down function,bitter, cold, but not dry. Clears the heat, but does not damage the yin
history books describe it this way. But how can something very cold not damage the yin or not be dry? CJ says "this is too good to be true
herb good at clear the heat and detoxify, include qi and blood, include exterior and interior
herb has more strong clear heat, cool down blood function
varieties of fire-toxin: red, swollen, and painful eyes, heat-toxin scrofula, snake bite, sore throat
recently for gastritis or stomach ulcer
+ can clear stagnation fire to allow things to smoothly go through, and protect yin and blood and the production of milk
clear the liver meridian stagnation fire
clear heat and purge fire down (push the fire down)
headache, sore throat, heat-toxin sores or furuncles, skin nodules, scrofula, swollen breasts, painful abscesses, snake bite
photophobia - all orifices is the water fill in area. They are the yin fill in area. the yin recieves the light. If there is a yin deficiency, you cannot recieve light.
+ heat-induced blood stasis syndrome with chest or abdominal pain, recently for post-partum pain or post-operative pain
lung abscess or lung heat with think and yellow-green phlegm
various toxic sores or infection (internally and topically) sinusitis or rhinitis (acute/chronic/atrophy)
herb should not be decocted for a long time
+ one of the ingredients used in treating residence of Chernobyl after the accident, may have been one of the first plants after the bomb dropped in Hiroshima
1st choice for treating lung abscesses
excess heat in the qi level
heat-toxin disorder (intestinal abscess, snake bite, toxic sores or ulcers, itching, seborrhea dermatitis
+ This is more focused to clear toxicity, not really more blood stagnation sez CJ
Various tumors: tumors of the digestive tract, carcinom of the liver, pancreas and urinary bladder, lymphoma, uterine fibroid, cervial cancer
Itching is the begining of pain, it's stagnation? It can be heat, cold, wind, what have you causing the itching
various skin disorders (wind-heat/damp heat) skin sores and lesions (weeping or pus) scabies tinea, etc
damp heat jaundice