Traditional Chinese Medicine/Sheng Di Huang
< Traditional Chinese MedicineName Means:
- Sheng-Fresh
- Di-Earth or soil
- Huang-Yellow
English Name:
- rehmannia root
- Chinese foxglove root
Latin Name:
Chinese Name:
- 生地黄 (Simplified Chinese)
- 生地黃 (Traditional Chinese)
Chinese Pinyin: shēng dì huáng
Taste & Temperature:
Channels:
- Hand Shao Yin of Heart
- Foot Jue Yin of Liver
- Foot Shao Yin of Kidney
Actions & Indications:
- Clear Heat & Cool Blood, for Heat in Blood level
- nourish Yin
- nourish Yin/Blood and generates fluids
- used for wasting and thirsting disorder
- cool upward blazing Heart Fire
Contraindications:
- Spleen/Stomach deficiency with diarrhea
- Spleen deficiency with Damp
- Yang deficiency
- weak pregnant women with deficient Blood or deficient Spleen/Stomach
- should avoid onions, garlic, radishes
Dosage:
- 3-10 qian (9-30 grams)
NOTES
- ↑ WO/2008112561/20080918 COMBINATION THERAPY FOR ALLEVIATING PAIN-RELATED CONDITIONS CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED PATENT APPLICATIONS. World Intellectual Property Organization.
- ↑ (WO/2001/091770) COMPOSITIONS FOR TREATING EYE DISCOMFORT CONTAINING HERBALS AND/OR NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS AND/OR MINERALS AND/OR VITAMINS. World Intellectual Property Organization.
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