Herbs That Clear Heat and Dry Dampness herbs traditional chinese medicine Chao Huang Bai Dry Fried Amur Cork Tree Bark Huang Bai Amur Cork Tree Bark, Phellodendron Huang Lian Coptis Rhizome Huang Qin Baical Skullcap Root, Scutellaria Hu Huang Lian Pierorhizae Rhizome Ji Xue Cao Asiatic Pennywort, Gotu Kola Ku Shen Sophora Root Long Dan Cao Chinese Gentian Root, Gentiana Qin Pi Bark of Korean Ash Branch

Herbs That Clear Heat and Dry Dampness

Function Overview

  • For damp-heat patterns with dysenteric disorders, urinary difficulty or pain, jaundice, furuncles, eczema.
  • Bitter and cold - clear heat and drain dampness; Avoid in cases of stomach and/or spleen deficiency.
  • Often combined with herbs that drain fire and those that clear heat and relieve toxicity.

Summary & Key Herbs

  • Huang Qin, Huang Lian, Huang Bai - similar.
    • Huang Qin - most effective in treating upper jiao, but also is used to calm restless fetus and liver yang rising.
    • Huang Lian - for middle jiao issues.
    • Huang Bai - for lower jiao issues.
  • Hu Huang Lian:
    • Inexpensive substitute for Huang Lian.
    • Commonly used for fever due to yin deficiency and for childhood nutritional impairment.
    • Clears damp-heat.
    • Drains fire and is used for steaming bone disorder due to lingering heat.

9 herbs in this functional category.

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