Cong Bai蔥白
Bulbus AlliiScallion
Autres nomsSpring Onion · Chinese Green Onion · Chive · Alium
- Catégorie
- Warm, Acrid Herbs that Release the Exterior (Wind-Cold Diaphoretics)
- Nature
- tiède, légèrement tiède
- Saveur
- piquant
- Tropisme
- Poumon, Estomac
- Posologie
- 2–10 g
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Doses usuelles
- Posologie
- 2–10 g
- Tincture
- 2–4 ml
Actions & indications
- Releases the exterior and induces sweating
- Wind-Cold especially very early stages
- Disperses Cold and unblocks *Yang*
- Abdominal pain due to blockage of Yang Qi by Cold
- Nasal congestion and pain due to blockage of Yang Qi by Cold
- Relieves toxicity and disperses clumps
- Toxic sores and abscesses (topical)
- Kills parasites
- Abdominal pain due to Intestinal parasites
Contre-indications
- Avoid in exterior Deficiency with profuse sweating (Tai Yang Zhong Feng).
- Use cautiously in Yin Deficiency with Yang Excess.
- Large doses may cause gastric irritation, hemorrhoids, headache and fever.
- Overuse can damage the beard and scalp hair, and cause confusion from Yin Deficiency with deficient Heat rising upward.
Incompatibilités
- Incompatible with Rx. Dichroa Chang Shan.
- Incompatible with dates when taken internally.
- Incompatible with Honey Feng Mi taken internally, since honey slows the Qi.
Associations
- Dan Dou Chi
- (Sheng Jiang)
The early phase of an External Wind-Cold invasion.
Colds in their early stage.
- Ma Huang
- (Ge Gen)
Wind-Cold with no sweating; also clears fluid retention and promotes urination for Wind-Water (edema of the face, head and upper body).
Severe headache accompanying a cold.
Applied externally as a poultice for sores and abscesses.
For elderly or weak patients, pregnant women and children, in any season, against either Hot or Cold pathogens; used preventively during flu epidemics, and for early-stage Wind-Cold with chills, no sweating, headache, nasal congestion and sneezing
Wind-Cold complicated by Interior Heat.
Internal Cold obstructing the Yang.
Constipation.
Notes
- Honey slows the Qi; brown sugar is fine to use.
- For abdominal pain of Cold type, warm Cong Bai and apply it to the navel.
- For dysuria, stir-fry it and apply topically to the lower abdomen.
- Both Cong Bai and Bul. Allii Macrostemi Xie Bai are warm, acrid herbs entering the Lung channel. Cong Bai has a mild diaphoretic action that releases the exterior — an effect Xie Bai lacks — and it enters the Stomach channel rather than the Large Intestine, making it suitable for diarrhea from Shao Yin Cold. Xie Bai, by contrast, opens the orifices and unblocks the Large Intestine in dysenteric disorders caused by Cold Stagnation; being more bitter and warmer, it moves Qi more forcefully, allowing it to expel Cold from the chest and clear turbid Phlegm to relieve chest Bi with pain radiating to the back, wheezing and shortness of breath.
- Scallion Bulb with Rootlets Lian Xu unblocks Qi. Used fresh it is acrid, dispersing warmth and opening the Lung and Stomach channels; cooked it becomes acrid, warm and sweet.