Ya Zhi Cao鴨跖草
Herba CommelinaeCommelina Communis
Also known asCommon Dayflower
- Category
- Herbs that Clear Heat and Purge Fire
- Nature
- cold
- Taste
- sweet, bland
- Channels entered
- Lung, Stomach, Small Intestine, Kidney, Large Intestine
- Secondary channels
- Bladder
- Dosage
- 9–30 g
Usual doses
- Dosage
- 9–30 g
- Dosage
- 60–90 g
Actions & indications
- Cools Heat, drains Fire and slightly resolves toxicity and cools the Blood
- Fever from relatively superficial warm pathogens
- Fever and sore throat of the common cold
- Stubborn fever from a warm pathogen disease
- Leukorrhea, sores and boils, metrorrhagia, hepatitis with jaundice, erysipelas, barbiers, parotitis, epistaxis, dysentery
- Clears Heat, facilitates urination and unblocks painful urinary dysfunction
- Hot, painful urinary dysfunction and edema, hematuria
- Edema with scanty urination
- Acute rheumatoid arthritis, uropenia
Contraindications
Use with caution in those with Spleen and Stomach Deficiency Cold.
Combinations
Qi level diseases.
- Shi Gao
- Lu Gen
A sore, swollen throat; sore throat from mumps.
Hot, painful urinary dysfunction with Exterior symptoms.
Notes
- Used alone, this herb treats toxic swellings and sores of both internal and external origin; the fresh herb alone can also address unremitting fevers.
- For external use, it is pounded into a pulp.
- This herb can detoxify any type of food poisoning.
- This herb and Hb. Lophatheri Dan Zhu Ye both clear Heat and promote urination; Hb. Commelinae Ya Zhi Cao has the stronger cooling and diuretic effect of the two, though its action is less prolonged.