Herbs That Drain Fire herbs traditional chinese medicine
Dan Zhu Ye Lophatherum Stem and Leaves Gu Jing Cao Pipewort Scapus, Inflorescence Han Shui Shi Calcitum Jiu Chao Zhi Mu Wine Fried Anemarrhena Rhizome Jue Ming Zi (Cao Jue Ming) Foetid Cassia Seeds Lian (Zi) Xin Lotus Plumule Lu Gen Reed Rhizome Mi Meng Hua Buddleia Flower Bud Qing Xiang Zi Celosia Seeds Shi Gao Gypsum Xia Ku Cao Selfheal Spike, Prunella Xian Lu Gen Fresh Reed Rhizome Xiong Dan Bear Gallbladder Ye Ming Sha Bat Feces Zhi Mu Anemarrhena Rhizome Zhi Zi Cape Jasmine Fruit, Gardenia
Herbs That Drain Fire
Function Overview
- Very cold - for high fever, irritability, thirst, delirium associated with febrile disease.
- Qi level or yang ming level disorders.
Summary & Key Herbs
- Most herbs here affect the qi level of disease.
- Herbal choice is made depending on the severity of the condition and the location of the heat.
- Shi Gao, Zhi Mu, Lu Gen - major substances for clearing heat from the lungs and stomach at the qi level.
- Zhi Mu - not as strong as Shi Gao, but nourishes yin and moistens dryness.
- Lu Gen - sweet and cold; best used for treating heat disorders where the yin has been injured.
- Zhi Zi - clears heat and drains fire, relatively mild; for initial stages of heat disorders with irritability, jaundice and hot painful urinary dysfunction (eliminates damp-heat).
- Dan Zhu Ye - clears fire from heart and stomach.
- Jue Ming Zi, Gu Jing Cao, Mi Meng Hua, Qing Xuang Zi - clear heat from the liver, clearing the vision; for pain, redness, and swelling of the eyes.
- Jue Ming Zi relieves accumulated heat in the liver channel and pacifies the liver, extinguishes fire, and moistens the intestines.
- Gu Jing Cao disperses wind and clears the vision, eye disorders due to wind-heat, and remove superficial visual obstruction.
- Mi Meng Hua nourishes the liver and treats deficiency patterns of blurred vision.
- Qing Xiang Zi drains fire and clears vision and treats pain, redness, and swelling of the eyes associated with excessive conditions of blazing liver fire.
16 herbs in this functional category.