Di Gu Pi
| Di Gu Pi in TCM:Explore the properties of Di Gu Pi according to Chinese
Nutrition and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM):
Factoids:
English Name: lycium root bark, barbary wolfberry, root bark, Chinese wolfberry root bark
Pharmacuetical Name: Cortex Lycii
Properties: sweet, bland, cold
Temperature: cold
Channels: LU, KD, LV
Flavors: sweet
Special Properties:
circulates blood, clears heat, clears deficent heat
Actions / Indications:
- Clears deficient heat (steaming bone disorder with
sweating, night sweats, chronic low grade fever, irritability, thirst;
drains floating fire in the KD channel, treats toothache from deficiency
fire)
- Clears LU heat; stops cough (cough or wheeze, excessive
constrained heat in LU)
- Clears heat; cools blood (hematemesis, epistaxis,
hematuria due to reckless movement of blood)
Special Notes:
- Similar to Sang Bai Pi, but Sang Bai
Pi clears heat from the qi level whereas Di Gu Pi clears heat from the
blood level.
- Pharmacologically, Di Gu Pi has been shown to act as an antibiotic, antihypertensive, antipyretic, and antidiabetic.
Contraindications:
- (cc: SP and ST cold from deficiency with loose stool)
- (cc: exterior disorders)
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