Suan Jiang酸浆
Radix et Rhizoma PhysalitisCape Gooseberry
- Category
- Herbs that Clear Heat and Detoxify
- Nature
- cold
- Taste
- bitter, sour
- Channels entered
- Heart, Lung
- Dosage
- 3–9 g
Actions & indications
- Clear Heat, detoxifies, benefit the throat and transforms Phlegm
- Chuang Yung, pertussis, cough, swollen throat and chest, Heat in the Stomach or Heart
- Clears fevers and promotes diuresis
- Irritability, urinary difficulty, fever due to Wind-Heat
- Calms the Shen, clears vision and tonifies *Qi*
- Inadequate uterine contraction following spontaneous miscarriage