Xuan Shen
| Xuan Shen in TCM:Explore the properties of Xuan Shen according to Chinese
Nutrition and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM):
Factoids:
English Name: scrophularia, figwort root
Pharmacuetical Name: Radix Scrophulariae
Properties: bitter, sweet, salty, cold
Temperature: cold
Channels: LU, ST, KD
Flavors: sweet, bitter, salty
Tonifies: yin
Special Properties:
circulates blood, clears heat, eliminates toxins, resolves phlegm, resolves dryness, clears deficent heat
Actions / Indications:
- Cools blood heat (heat in ying level of warm febrile
disease damaging yin: fever, dry mouth, purple tongue, irritability,
insomnia)
- Nourishes Yin, Drains Dryness (xiao ke; constipation;
sequelae of warm-febrile disease and Lung yin deficiency; dry cough
and throat, blood tinged sputum; irritability)
- Clears Toxic Heat (abcess, ulceration, sore throat,
mumps; carbuncles; yin deficient fire)
- Softens Hardness; Disperses Nodules (swelling, pain,
phlegm fire scrofula, goiter, neck lumps)
- (cc: SP/ST deficiency)
Special Notes:
- Combine Xuan Shen with Cang Zhu for excellent
results lowering plasma glucose levels in patients with diabetes mellitus.
- Incompatible with Li Lu
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