Dan Zhu Ye
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Dan Zhu Ye in TCM:

Explore the properties of Dan Zhu Ye according to Chinese
Nutrition and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM):


Factoids:
English Name: lophatherum, common lophatherum
Pharmacuetical Name: Herba Lophatheri
Properties: sweet, bland, cold


Temperature: cold

Channels: ST, HT, SI

Flavors: sweet

Special Properties:
clears heat


Actions / Indications:
  • Clears heat, eliminates irritability (irritability and thirst in warm febrile disease)
  • Promotes urination (HT fire transferring to SI; rough, scanty, painful urination, with irritability, red tongue tip, and mouth and tongue sores)

    Special Notes:
  • Pharmacologically Dan Zhu Ye acts as both a diuretic and an anti-pyretic.

Contraindications:
  • (cc: yin deficient fire)
 

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