Shi Di柿蒂
Calyx KakiPersimmon Calyx
Also known asKaki · Diospyros
- Category
- Herbs that regulate Qi
- Nature
- neutral
- Taste
- bitter, astringent
- Channels entered
- Lung, Stomach
- Dosage
- 3–12 g
Usual doses
- Dosage
- 3–12 g
- Tincture
- 2–3 ml
Actions & indications
- Descends Qi and stops hiccups
- Stomach dysfunction with belching, or hiccup
- Treats both Hot and Cold patterns with additional appropriate herbs
Contraindications
Contraindicated in Qi Deficiency prolapse of the uro-genital organs.
Combinations
Stomach Cold causing hiccups and vomiting
Stomach Heat causing belching and vomiting
Stops hiccup and reduces vomiting caused by Stomach Cold, and treats hiccup arising from combined Heat and Cold
Notes
- Ripe fruit addresses thirst, cough and Blood-spitting.
- It also treats nausea and vomiting.
- Persimmon Frost, Manosum Kaki, Kaki Saccharum (the white powder found on the cake) Shi Shuang, (Kaki Cake Shi Shuang Bing) is sweet, cool and moist in nature, entering the Lung and Heart channels; it treats dry cough due to Lung Heat, dry sore throat, dry mouth, tongue ulcers, spitting of blood, hematemesis, hematuria, hernia, wasting-thirsting disorder and dysentery.
- Kaki Siccatus succus, the juice extracted from unripe fruit, addresses hypertension, bleeding, hemorrhoids and constipation.
- Eating the ripe fruit also relieves thirst, cough and Blood-spitting.