Qing Dai
| Qing Dai in TCM:Explore the properties of Qing Dai according to Chinese
Nutrition and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM):
Factoids:
English Name: indigo, natural indigo
Pharmacuetical Name: Indigo Naturalis
Properties: salty, cold
Temperature: cold
Channels: LU, ST, LV
Flavors: salty
Special Properties:
circulates blood, clears heat, eliminates toxins, disperses wind, reduces swelling
Actions / Indications:
- Clears toxic heat; cools blood; disperses swelling
(sore, swollen throat, mumps, bleeding, febrile convulsions in children,
lung heat cough; carbuncles, skin eruptions due to blood heat; internal
or topical use)
- Drains LV fire; extinguish LV wind (acute childhood
convulsions)
Special Notes:
- (note: made from processing da qing ye (soak until rotten, add lime
then dry the foam from the top of the liquid)
- Note: topical for throat, internal for bleeding, Lung heat, convulsions
due to heat)
- Qing Dai is the processed powder of Da Qing
Ye. Qing Dai is very similar in functions to Da Qing Ye, but it
has a stronger function to cool blood and clear LU heat.
Contraindications:
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