Da Qing Ye
| Da Qing Ye in TCM:Explore the properties of Da Qing Ye according to Chinese Nutrition and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM):
Factoids:
English Name: isatis leaves, indigo woad leaves
Pharmacuetical Name: Falium Isatidis
Properties: bitter, very cold
Temperature: cold
Channels: LU, ST, HT
Flavors: bitter
Special Properties: clears heat, clears damp, eliminates toxins, disperses wind
Actions / Indications:
- Clears heat; relieves toxicity (wind heat in warm-febrile
diseases or epidemic febrile outbreak; epidemic toxin or any severe
febrile disease affects people regardless of constitution; fire toxin
anywhere in the body especially throat and lung; heat toxicity invading
qi and blood)
- Cools blood; reduces blotches (skin eruptions due
to heat in the blood; bleeding due to heat; psoriasis, eczema with hot
skin lesions, damp-heat)
Special Notes:
- Pharmacologically Da Qing Ye has a strong antibiotic and antifungal effect. It has been shown to inhibit cancer in mice, and it has a mild anti-inflammatory and ant-pyretic effect.
- Patients who are allergic to sulfa drugs (sulfonulureas and sulfonamides)
may be allergic to da qing ye.
Contraindications:
- (cc: cold from SP/ST deficiency)
- (cc: sulphur allergy)
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