Ya Zhi Cao鴨跖草
Herba CommelinaeCommelina Communis
Autres nomsCommon Dayflower
- Catégorie
- Herbs that Clear Heat and Purge Fire
- Nature
- froid
- Saveur
- doux, fade
- Tropisme
- Poumon, Estomac, Intestin grêle, Rein, Gros intestin
- Méridiens secondaires
- Vessie
- Posologie
- 9–30 g
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Doses usuelles
- Posologie
- 9–30 g
- Posologie
- 60–90 g
Actions & indications
- Cools Heat, drains Fire and slightly resolves toxicity and cools the Blood
- Fever from relatively superficial warm pathogens
- Fever and sore throat of the common cold
- Stubborn fever from a warm pathogen disease
- Leukorrhea, sores and boils, metrorrhagia, hepatitis with jaundice, erysipelas, barbiers, parotitis, epistaxis, dysentery
- Clears Heat, facilitates urination and unblocks painful urinary dysfunction
- Hot, painful urinary dysfunction and edema, hematuria
- Edema with scanty urination
- Acute rheumatoid arthritis, uropenia
Contre-indications
Use with caution in those with Spleen and Stomach Deficiency Cold.
Associations
Qi level diseases.
- Shi Gao
- Lu Gen
A sore, swollen throat; sore throat from mumps.
Hot, painful urinary dysfunction with Exterior symptoms.
Notes
- Used alone, this herb treats toxic swellings and sores of both internal and external origin; the fresh herb alone can also address unremitting fevers.
- For external use, it is pounded into a pulp.
- This herb can detoxify any type of food poisoning.
- This herb and Hb. Lophatheri Dan Zhu Ye both clear Heat and promote urination; Hb. Commelinae Ya Zhi Cao has the stronger cooling and diuretic effect of the two, though its action is less prolonged.