Qian Cao Gen
| Qian Cao Gen in TCM:Explore the properties of Qian Cao Gen according to Chinese
Nutrition and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM):
Factoids:
English Name: madder, India madder root
Pharmacuetical Name: Radix Rubiae
Properties: bitter, cold
Temperature: cold
Channels: HT, LV
Flavors: bitter
Special Properties:
circulates blood, clears heat, stops bleeding
Actions / Indications:
- Cools blood; Stops bleeding; transforms stasis (various
kinds of bleeding due to reckless movement of hot blood or blood stasis:
vomit, epistaxis, hematochezia, stool, uterine, for profuse uterine
bleeding from qi deficiency - combine with Huang
Qi)
- Invigorates blood to dispel stasis (pain due to stasis
especially chest and flanks; also trauma, joint pain or early stage
carbuncles; amenorrhea; lochiochesis)
Special Notes:
- For hemaotchezia due to damp heat in the large intestine combine Qian
Cao Gen with Huang Lian, Sheng
Ma, Bai Shao, and Di Yu.
Contraindications:
- (cc: pregnancy)
- (cc:SP and ST deficient cold)
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