Qing Guo青果
Fructus CanariiChinese White Olive
- Category
- Herbs that Clear Heat and Relieve Toxicity
- Nature
- neutral
- Taste
- sweet, sour
- Channels entered
- Lung, Stomach, Spleen
- Dosage
- 4.5–15 g
Actions & indications
- Clears Heat, resolves toxicity, generates fluids and improves the condition of the throat
- Sore throat due to Win-Heat Invasion or Heat Toxin Accumulation
- Dry, parched mouth and throat with irritability, thirst hoarseness, coughing with sticky sputum (fresh made into a paste), epilepsy, polydipsia, hematemesis with coughing, bacillary dysentery, fugutoxin
- Resolves alcoholic intoxication
- Alcohol intoxication
Contraindications
This herb may bring out pox or acne.
Notes
- It unbinds the Stomach, descends Qi, and halts diarrhea.
- A soup made from the flesh of ten olives relieves drunkenness.
- Chewing it and swallowing the juice is said to resolve all toxicity from fish and tortoise.
- It can dislodge a fish bone stuck in the throat.