Tai Zi Shen
| Tai Zi Shen in TCM:Explore the properties of Tai Zi Shen according to Chinese
Nutrition and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM):
Factoids:
English Name: psuedostellaria, heterophylly false starwort root
Pharmaceutical Name: Radix Psuedostellariae
Properties: sweet, slightly bitter, neutral
Temperature: neutral
Channels: LU, SP
Flavors: sweet, bitter
Tonifies: qi
Special Properties:
resolves dryness, resolves summer heat
Actions / Indications:
- Tonifies SP; nourishes ST (lack of appetite, fatigue,
dry mouth, spontaneous sweating due to qi or yin deficiency)
- Generates fluids; moistens dryness (dry cough, SOB,
scanty sputum, thirst and injury to fluids after febrile disease; unrelenting
fever or summer-heat)
- (cc: incompatible with Li Lu)
- (note: very gentle, weaker than ren shen, xi yang shen, or dang shen...
often used for patients with very poor constitution)
Special Notes:
- Tai Zi Shen is effetive to treat pediatric pneumonia and hepatitis.
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