Zhen Zhu Cao葉下珠
Herba Phyllanthi UrinariaeCommon Leafflower Herb
- Category
- Herbs that Clear Heat and Resolve Toxicity
- Nature
- cool
- Taste
- sweet, bitter
- Channels entered
- Liver, Lung
- Dosage
- 9–15 g
Actions & indications
- Calms the Liver, clears Heat, promotes diuresis and removes toxicity
- Enteritis, infectious hepatitis, renal edema, dysentery, nebula, urinary tract infection, aphtha, porrigo, infantile malnutrition jaundice due to Liver/Gallbladder Damp-Heat
Notes
This herb treats jaundice from Liver/Gallbladder Damp-Heat, strangury from Bladder Damp-Heat, diarrhea and dysentery caused by downward-pouring Damp-Heat, swollen sores and ulcers from accumulated Toxic Heat, snake or dog bites, painful swollen red eyes, and infantile malnutrition.