Shi Xian Tao石仙桃
Pseudobulbus PholidotaeChinese Pholidota Herb
Also known asStone Fairy's Peach
- Category
- Herbs that Clear Heat and Relieve Toxicity
- Nature
- cool
- Taste
- bitter, slightly sour
- Channels entered
- Lung, Kidney
- Dosage
- 9–15 g
Usual doses
- Dosage
- 9–15 g
- Fresh
- 15–60 g
Actions & indications
- Clears Heat cools the Blood and removes toxicity
- Common cold, traumatic injury, rheumatic arthritis, chronic osteomyelitis, acute gastroenteritis, hemoptysis
- Nourishes Yin, moistens the Lungs and promotes salivation
- Cough due to Lung Heat, hemoptysis associated with tuberculosis