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Mao Dong Qing毛冬青

Radix Ilicis PubescentisIlex Pubescentis

Also known asHairy Holly Root · Winter Green

Category
Herbs that Invigorate the Blood
Nature
slightly cold
Taste
bitter, pungent, astringent
Channels entered
Heart, Spleen
Secondary channels
Lung, Liver
Dosage
15–120 g

Usual doses

Dosage
15–120 g
Phlebitis
500 g
Tincture
2–5 ml

Actions & indications

Invigorates the Blood and unblocks the channels and collaterals
  • Heart Blood Stasis with chest pain and stroke with hemiplegia
  • heart Qi Stagnation
  • Chest Bi
Clears Heat, resolves toxicity and stops coughing
  • Lung Heat cough
  • Wind-Heat cough
  • Swollen, painful throat
  • Topically, as a powder for burns

Contraindications

  • Not recommended for Deficiency patients.
  • Avoid in those prone to bleeding.

Interactions

Use caution in patients taking anticoagulants such as heparin, warfarin (Coumadin), and enoxaparin (Lovenox), or antiplatelet drugs such as aspirin, dipyridamole (Persantine), and clopidogrel (Plavix), as concurrent use may produce an additive or synergistic effect.

Combinations

Notes

  • This herb is a recent addition to the pharmacopoeia, first recorded in the twentieth century.
  • It is reported to treat the common cold from Wind-Heat, tonsillitis, dysentery, coronary artery disease, vasculitis, erysipelas, central retinitis, uveitis, suppurative dermal disease, Buerger's disease, angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, hypertension, and thromboangiitis obliterans.
  • Mao Dong Qing and Rx. Salviae Miltiorrhizae Dan Shen both invigorate and cool the Blood. Mao Dong Qing, bitter and draining as well as acrid and dispersing, enters the Heart and Spleen; it is stronger at resolving toxicity, and also cools the Lungs, transforms Phlegm, and stops cough. Dan Shen, bitter and slightly cold, enters the Blood levels of the Liver, Heart, and Pericardium, invigorating the Blood, transforming Stasis, and both tonifying and cooling the Blood; it reduces swelling, relieves irritability, and is more suited than Mao Dong Qing to gynecological use.

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