Jaundice

TCM Herbs Associated With Jaundice

Jaundice Is Associated With 17 TCM Herbs

Clears heat, relieves fire toxicity, expels wind, dries dampness - wind-heat or damp-heat sores, carbuncles, rashes with excessive pus, moist skin; also for damp-heat jaundice (only in combination).

Drains heat, relieves fire toxicity, cools the blood and benefits the throat - warm-febrile disease, mumps, painful swollen throat. Damp-heat jaundice.

Clears heat, promotes urination - abdominal fullness and swelling due to edema, urinary difficulty, leg qi edema; the nature of this herb is to move downward and relieve edema by water or dampness drained from the body. Disperses blood stasis - reduces swelling and fire toxicity, sores, carbuncles…

Drains heat and purges accumulations - high fever, profuse sweating, thirst, constipation, abdominal distention and pain, delirium, yellow tongue coating, full pulse which indicates intestinal heat excess or yang ming stage illness. Drains heat from the blood - blood in the stool from bleeding hem…

Cools the blood, stops bleeding due to reckless movement of hot blood - nosebleed, vomiting blood, blood in urine or stool, uterine bleeding, heavy menstrual bleeding. Reduces swelling, generates flesh - topically for carbuncles, sores, swellings. Internal abscesses - intestinal, lung. Pulmonary…

Drains damp heat from the lower jiao - thick-yellow leukorrhea, foul-smelling diarrhea, dysentery; damp-heat pouring downward or hot leg qi - red, swollen, painful knees, legs, and/or feet; damp-heat jaundice. Drains kidney fire with signs of yin deficiency - steaming bone disorder, night sweats, …

Clears heat, drains fire, especially from the upper warmer - heat patterns with fever, irritability, thirst, cough, thick, yellow sputum, hot sores and swellings. Clears heat, dries dampness - damp-heat in the stomach or intestines, diarrhea, dysentery; damp warm-febrile disease with fever, stifli…

Invigorates blood and dispels stasis - amenorrhea, wind-damp painful obstruction, traumatic injury. Clears heat and resolves dampness - damp heat jaundice, turbid vaginal discharge. Drains heat, transforms phlegm - cough due to lung heat, constipation. Discharges toxins - burns, carbuncles (topi…

Useful for gastrointestinal disorders related to damp heat - pain, dysentery, enteritis.  Liver involved symptoms such as jaundice. Diarrhea from summerheat. Cools the blood and stops bleeding - nosebleeds, bleeding in the urine, uterine bleeding. Useful to clear heat from the liver and benefit …

Clears heat, dries dampness - dysentery, leukorrhea, jaundice, sores. Expels wind, kills parasites, stops itching - for damp toxin skin lesions or infestations with chronic itching, seepage, and bleeding; genital itching and vaginal discharge. Clears heat, promotes urination - for damp-heat in th…

Drains damp-heat from the liver and gallbladder channels - red, swollen, sore throat, eyes, and/or ears, sudden deafness, jaundice, pain, swelling or dampness in the genital region, or foul smelling vaginal discharge and itching. Clears ascending liver fire - headache, red eyes; liver wind-heat wi…

Clears heat and relieves fire toxicity - any heat, especially liver heat with red, swollen, painful eyes. Dissipates nodules and reduces abscesses - firm, hard sores, especially for breast and intestinal abscesses. Promotes lactation - due to heat. Clears heat, resolves damp - damp-heat jaundice…

Dispels wind-damp bi and cramping, especially in the extremities, for acute/chronic, cold/hot conditions. Clears deficient heat - fever, steaming bone disorder. Jaundice due to acute damp-heat. Counteracts drying action of other herbs that dispel wind-damp - moistens intestines for dry constipat…

Relieves toxicity, eliminates dampness - joint pain, lin syndrome, jaundice. Clears damp-heat from the skin - recurrent ulcers or hot skin lesions, syphilis.

Invigorate blood, break up stasis - used topically and internally for traumatic pain, and to speed healing process of chronic sores. Promotes movement of Qi - liver qi stagnation, menstrual pain, chest, flank pain. Clears heat, cools blood - hot phlegm obstructs heart orifices with symptoms like …