Pu Gong Ying
| Pu Gong Ying in TCM:Explore the properties of Pu Gong Ying according to Chinese
Nutrition and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM):
Factoids:
English Name: dandelion, Asian dandelion
Pharmacuetical Name: Herba Taraxaci
Properties: bitter, sweet, cold
Temperature: cold
Channels: ST, LV
Flavors: sweet, bitter
Special Properties:
clears heat, clears damp, eliminates toxins, reduces swelling
Actions / Indications:
- Clears toxic heat (toxic heat disorders; carbuncles,
boils; Liver heat with red, swollen, painful eyes; poisonous snake bite)
- Reduces abcesses; dissipates clumps (breast abcess,
unblock channels to aid lactation if due to heat; Lung abcess; intestinal
abcess; sore, swollen throat: use internally or topically)
- Drains damp heat jaundice; relieves PUD (damp-heat
jaundice; PUD)
- (cc: SP deficiency)
- (cc: overdose can cause diarrhea)
- (note: use fresh grind and make paste to apply topically on breasts
for early stage abcess)
Special Notes:
- (note: use fresh grind and make paste to apply topically on breasts
for early stage abcess)
- Strong antibiotic effect with immune enhancing and hepatoprotective
properties. May compete with Quinolone antibiotics.
- For Damp-Heat Jaundice use pu gong yin with yin chen hao, zhi
zi, and da huang: see
Contraindications:
- (cc: SP deficiency)
- (cc: overdose can cause diarrhea)
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