Chuan Bo Shi穿破石
Lignum CudraniaeCudrania
Also known asKudo et Masam
- Category
- Herbs that dispel Wind-Dampness
- Nature
- warm
- Taste
- sweet
- Dosage
- 15–60 g
Actions & indications
- Removes Wind and eliminates Dampness
- Malaria
- Invigorates the Blood and regulates menstruation
- Functional uterine bleeding metrorrhagia
- Tonifies Deficiency
- Consumptive disease
Contraindications
Contraindicated during pregnancy.
Notes
- For chronic pelvic inflammatory disease, an enema can be prepared from 15g of this herb together with 25g Hb. Hedyotis (Bai Hua She She Cao), 25g Flos Lonicerae (Jin Yin Hua), 15g Rx. Sophorae Flavescentis (Ku Shen), 15g Per. Zanthoxyli (Chuan Jiao), and 20g Hb. Violae (Zi Hua Di Ding); add 500ml water and decoct down to 80-100ml, then add 10ml of 1% procaine and 80,000 U of gentamicin.
- For topical use, the decoction is used as a wash.
- Traditionally, it has been used to treat dim vision.