Materia Medica Data
- Category
- Herbs that Cool the Blood
- Temperature
- Cool
- Nature & Flavour
- Sweet, Cool
- Channels Entered
- LIV, ST
- Latin (pharmaceutical)
- Radix Stellariae Dichotomae
- Chinese
- 阴柴胡
- Tone Marks
- yīn chái hú
- Translation
- Silver Barbarian Kindling
Chinese Herb Actions
- Clears Heat Caused by Yin Deficiency For afternoon fevers, steaming bone disorder, low grade fevers, and night sweats. Also effective at clearing residual heat in the aftermath of a high fever.
- Clears Heat, Reduces Childhood Malnutrition For fever, irritability, and thirst from childhood malnutrition.
- Stops Bleeding and Cools the Blood For epistaxis, coughing up of Blood, uterine bleeding, or Blood in the urine all caused by reckless movement of hot Blood.
Chinese Herb Dosage
- 3-9 grams.
- Part used: root.
Chinese Herb Contraindications & Cautions
- Contraindicated in exteriorly-contracted wind-cold or Blood Deficiency without heat signs.
Sources & References
Compiled and edited by Thomas Dehli, Founder & Editor, Sacred Lotus
The information here is referenced from numerous sources — teachers, practitioners, class notes from Five Branches University, the books below, and the published research literature, with citations given as resolvable PubMed identifiers. Where sources disagree, I have flagged the discrepancies directly. If facts couldn't be verified, I have left them out. How we source our content.
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Chinese Herbs Books & References
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