Bi Qi荸荠
Rhizoma EleocharitisWater Chestnut
Also known asRhizoma Heleocharitis
- Category
- Herbs that transform Phlegm and stop cough
- Nature
- slightly cold, cold
- Taste
- sweet
- Channels entered
- Lung, Stomach, Large Intestine
- Dosage
- 12–120 g
Usual doses
- Dosage
- 12–120 g
- Fresh macerated juice or powder
- 30–60 g
Actions & indications
- Transforms Phlegm and reduces accumulations
- Coughing from Phlegm-Heat
- Phlegm nodules such as scrofula
- Clears Lung and Stomach Heat, generates Fluids and stops thirst
- Thirst and constipation from Heat in the Lungs and Stomach with diabetes, jaundice, painful urinary dysfunction, red eyes, throat pain and swelling
- Commonly used for Warm Pathogen diseases
- Cools the Blood, removes toxins, promotes bowel movement and improves the appetite
- Constipation, conjunctivitis, corneal opacity, hard masses and indigestion
Contraindications
- Avoid in Deficiency Cold.
- Avoid in Blood Deficiency.
- Avoid for cough due to Yin Deficiency.