Ze Xie
| Ze Xie in TCM:Explore the properties of Ze Xie according to Chinese
Nutrition and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM):
Factoids:
English Name: alisma, Oriental water plantain rhizome
Pharmacuetical Name: Rhizoma alismatis
Properties: sweet, bland, cold
Temperature: cold
Channels: UB, KD
Flavors: sweet
Special Properties:
clears heat, clears damp, clears deficent heat
Actions / Indications:
- Promotes Urination, Leaches out damp (dizziness,
vertigo due to fluid retention of ear; damp stagnation with urinary
difficulty, PUD, luekorrhea, edema, diarrhea, especially useful for
damp-heat in lower jiao)
- Drains KD Fire (xiao ke; KD yin deficiency with nocturnal
emission; tinnitus, dizziness)
- (cc: KD yang deficiency or damp-cold; spermatorrhea or vaginal discharge)
- (cc: caution with abnormal function of KD - associated with diarrhea)
Special Notes:
- Compare with Fu Ling
- Tonic herbs may create heat in the body as KD fire, Ze Xie is commonly
combined with tonic herbs to prevent this.
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