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Huang Qin黄芩

Radix ScutellariaeScute

También conocido comoBaical Skullcap Root · Scutellaria

Categoría
Herbs that Clear Heat and Drain Dampness
Naturaleza
frío
Sabor
amargo
Canales de destino
Pulmón, Estómago, Vesícula biliar, Intestino grueso
Canales secundarios
Corazón, Intestino delgado, Hígado
Dosis
3–18 g

Esta entrada aún no está traducida: el texto siguiente está en inglés.

Dosis habituales

Dosis
3–18 g
Tincture
2–4 ml

Acciones & indicaciones

Clears Heat and dries Dampness
  • Damp-Heat in the Stomach or Intestines with diarrhea or dysenteric disorder
  • Damp-Warmth with fever, a stifling sensation in the chest and thirst with no desire to drink
  • Damp-Heat in the Lower Jiao with painful urinary dysfunction
  • Damp-Heat jaundice (auxiliary), infectious hepatitis
Drains Fire and detoxifies
  • Heat and Fire especially in the Upper Jiao (Lung) with high fever, irritability, thirst, cough and expectoration of thick, yellow sputum
  • Upper respiratory tract infection
  • Hot sores and swellings (topical or internal)
Cools the Blood and stops bleeding
Xue Stage Heat or Blood Heat causing bleeding with epistaxis, hemoptysis, hematemesis and hemafecia
Clears Heat and calms the fetus
Fetal restlessness due to Heat
Calms ascending Liver *Yang*
  • Liver Yang Rising with headache, irritability, red eyes, flushed face and bitter taste
  • High Blood pressure
  • Gallbladder Heat

Contraindicaciones

  • Avoid with Deficiency Cold in the Middle Jiao.
  • Avoid with Cold-type diarrhea.
  • Avoid with Deficiency Heat in the Lungs.
  • Use cautiously with a restless fetus from Cold.
  • Use cautiously with Blood Deficiency causing abdominal pain.
  • Use cautiously with edema from Spleen Deficiency.
  • Use cautiously with loose stools from Kidney Deficiency.
  • Use cautiously with amenorrhea from Blood Deficiency.

Incompatibilidades

  • Counteracts Cx. Moutan Mu Dan Pi.
  • Counteracts Rz. & Rx. Veratri Li Lu.

Interacciones

This herb may act synergistically with beta-lactam antibiotics such as ampicillin, amoxicillin, and cefotaxime, restoring their effectiveness against beta-lactam-resistant and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

Combinaciones

  • Drains pathogenic Heat from the Upper and Middle Jiaos for high fever, redness, swelling and pain of the head and face, dry mouth, parched throat, mouth and tongue ulcers, epistaxis, rashes and irritability in warm-febrile disease; for toothache; for explosive diarrhea and dysentery with burning anal pain or foul, filthy stools and abdominal pain; and for nausea in pregnancy from Heat disturbing the fetus.

  • Intestinal Wind with bloody stool.

  • Damp-Heat dysentery with fever and tenesmus.

  • Damp-Heat with fever, chest fullness and a greasy tongue coating.

  • Jaundice from Damp-Heat.

    • Bai Shao
    • Zhi Zi
    • Huang Bai

    Damp-Heat jaundice.

  • Acute or chronic cough from Lung Heat.

  • Lower Jiao Damp-Heat with painful, difficult urination.

  • Acute or chronic coughing caused by Lung Heat.

    • Zhi
    • Ban Xia
    • Zhi Tian
    • Nan Xing

    Phlegm-Heat cough.

  • Acute febrile diseases.

  • Generalized Heat toxin with External or internal sores and abscesses.

  • Lung Heat cough.

  • Boils, carbuncles and furuncles.

  • Shao Yang-stage Heat with alternating chills and fever, and nausea.

  • Suppurative skin infections.

  • Dry-fried or charred, for hematemesis and epistaxis.

  • Excess Internal Heat forcing the Blood recklessly.

  • Bloody stool from Intestinal Wind; abdominal pain associated with Intestinal abscess.

  • Hematemesis and epistaxis — for epistaxis, dry-fry Huang Qin together with Huang Bai.

  • Restless fetus from Heat.

  • Dizziness and headache from extreme upward rebellion of Liver Fire.

  • Scrofula from accumulated obstruction by Liver Fire.

    • Zhi Zi

    Strongly clears and drains lurking Heat from the Lungs, for fever, chest fullness, cough with yellow sputum, and epistaxis or hematemesis; for Damp-Heat with jaundice; for sores from Heat toxin; and for irregular vaginal bleeding from Liver Fire.

    • Bai Zhu

    Restless fetus from Blood Heat.

  • Restless fetus from Deficiency Heat.

    • Bai Shao

    Dysenteric disorders with abdominal pain from Heat entering the Interior; cools Heat and nourishes the Blood to calm a fetus disturbed by Heat; and treats Liver Heat attacking the Spleen and Stomach during pregnancy with nausea and vomiting.

  • Infectious hepatitis without jaundice.

  • Scrofula.

  • Infectious hepatitis with jaundice.

  • Powdered together with Wine-fried Scutellaria Jiu Chao Huang Qin and taken with green tea for pain of the eyebrow and eye socket from Wind-Heat with Phlegm.

  • Sore throat with lingering Exterior symptoms.

  • Toothache or oral ulcers.

  • Constipation.

  • Burning dysuria.

  • Damp-Heat dysuria with Qi Deficiency.

  • Cough with wheezing or dyspnea.

  • Chest congestion with copious yellow sputum.

  • Cough caused by Heat.

  • Eye disorders with redness and pain.

  • Excess Heat with persistent high fever and irritability.

  • Exterior Cold-Dampness with Interior Heat.

Notas

  • It supports a healthy placenta and uterus.
  • Stir-fried in sake, its action moves upward.
  • Stir-fried in stool water, its action moves downward.
  • Its effect resembles that of aspirin.
  • It is said to offer protection against scarlet fever.
  • It plays an important role in calming Internal Wind and treating Gallbladder disorders.
  • It settles the uterus during pregnancy, thereby helping prevent miscarriage.
  • This herb has been shown to inhibit cancer cell growth.
  • It is said to act in nine ways: clearing Lung Heat, cooling Summerheat, clearing Wind-Heat from the Upper Jiao and skin, clearing Heat of every type, nourishing Yin and subduing Yang postpartum, invigorating chest Qi, reducing Phlegm above the diaphragm, clearing Upper Jiao Heat and Spleen Dampness, and calming the fetus.
  • Huang Qin and Gypsum Fibrosum Shi Gao both cool Lung Heat and drain Fire from the Qi Level; Huang Qin clears Heat, dries Dampness, and cools the Blood to stop bleeding and calm a fetus disturbed by Heat, while Shi Gao cools, releases, and vents Heat from the muscle layer, clears Heat so fluids can regenerate, drains Heat at the Qi Level, and clears Dry-Heat from the Lungs and Stomach.
  • Bland Scutellaria, Dan Huang Qin, is the standard form of the herb.
  • Young Scutellaria root, Zi Huang Qin, enters the Large Intestine channel to drain Large Intestine and Lower Jiao Heat.
  • Dried Scutellaria, Ku Huang Qin, enters the Lung channel to clear and drain Lung Fire and release External Wind-Heat.
  • Dry-fried as Chao Huang Qin, it enters the Blood Level to treat Lower Jiao Heat or disturbed fetal Qi.
  • Wine-fried as Jiu Chao Huang Qin, it clears and removes Damp-Heat from the Upper Jiao.
  • Charred (Huang Qin Tan) or scorched (Jiao Huang Qin), it cools Heat and stops bleeding for hemorrhage caused by Blood Heat.
  • Huang Qin is a broad-acting agent for the Liver and Gallbladder, including fat metabolism, and is used for various hypersensitivity or allergic reactions, including food allergies.

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