Qing Hao
| Qing Hao in TCM:Explore the properties of Qing Hao according to Chinese
Nutrition and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM):
Factoids:
English Name: artemesia, sweet wormwood herb
Pharmacuetical Name: Herba Artemesiae Annuae
Properties: bitter, acrid, cold
Temperature: cold
Channels: KD, LV, GB
Flavors: bitter, pungent
Special Properties:
circulates blood, clears heat, resolves summer heat, clears deficent heat
Actions / Indications:
- Cools blood; Clears deficient heat (heat in blood
or sequelae of febrile disease, especially for unremitting fever, night
fever and morning coolness with absence of sweating; tidal fever, yin
deficient heat, steaming bone disorder)
- Checks malarial disorder; Clears heat (primary herb
for malaria, alternating chills and fever)
- Clears summer heat (summer heat manifesting as low
grade fever, headache, dizziness and stifling sensation in the chest)
Special Notes:
- It has been presented that anti-fungals and CCB's (calcium channel blockers) may present clinically significant herb-drug interaction with Qing Hao.
Contraindications:
- (cc: postpartum fever with blood deficiency or cases of cold from
SP and ST deficiency)
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