What is Ban Xia used for?

Ban Xia is one of the most important herbs in Chinese medicine for drying dampness and transforming cold phlegm. While commonly incorporated into formulas to help expel phlegm from the lungs, Ban Xia really takes center stage in transforming cold phlegm conditions in the spleen and digestive tract.

What is Zhi Ban Xia?

The processed root, known as Zhi ban xia or Ban xia, is one of the most important herbs in Chinese Medicine to transform phlegm and stop coughing. The herb is warm and drying and should be used only in people who are not hot or dry (known as yin deficient.)

Is Ban Xia safe?

Banxia-houpu decoction is a safe and effective traditional Chinese medicinal formula used in the treatment of mild and manic-depressive disorders for centuries. There has been increasing interest in its therapeutic application in depression.

What is Pinellia good for?

It is an ingredient in Sho-seiryu-to (SST), which is used for the flu. Outside of Chinese Medicine, pinellia ternata is used for nausea, morning sickness, cough, birth control, influenza (flu), swine flu, and pain and swelling (inflammation).

What is Gan Cao Xie Xin Tang?

GAN CAO XIE XIN TANG – 甘草瀉心湯 – LICORICE DECOCTION TO DRAIN THE EPIGASTRIUM. English: Licorice Decoction to Drain the Epigastrium. Also Known As: Pinellia and Licorice Combination.

What is Zhu ru?

Zhu Ru is moistening and cooling and is biased toward the treatment of Phlegm-Heat and nausea from Stomach Heat. It is used to treat nausea and reflux due to either Stomach Cold or Stomach Heat.

What is Ren Shen?

Ren Shen is a powerful herb used in TCM to tonify the lung qi, spleen qi, heart qi and nourishes yin and yang deficiencies. Ren Chen considered sweet, slightly bitter, slightly warm in energy and enters through the spleen and lung meridians.

What is bupleurum root?

Bupleurum is an herbal supplement created from the root of the plant Bupleurum chinense. It has been used in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) for centuries. It has recently become popular in the West for its supposed liver-cleansing benefits.

How do I get rid of pinellia?

The best method I have found for dealing with Pinellia is to push a hori-hori (Japanese digging knife) or other digging tool deep enough in the soil (a few inches) to excavate the entire plant. Success is achieved if the removed plant still has a spherical corm attached to its long white stem.

What is Kun BU?

Common TCM formulas in which kombu (Kun Bu) are used* For treating goiter, swollen and inflamed lymph glands and to soften hard nodules combine kombu with sargassum (Hai Zao), ningpo figwort roots (Xuan Shen) and fritillary bulbs (Chuan Bei Mu).

What is Wen Dan Tang used for?

Ghrelin, a brain-gut peptide that induces anxiety and other abnormal emotions, contributes to the effects of insomnia on emotional behavior. In contrast, the traditional Chinese Medicine remedy Wen Dan Tang reduces insomnia-related anxiety, which may perhaps correspond to changes in the brain-gut axis.

What does Ren Shen do?

Ren Shen (Ginseng) is one of the major herb in Shen Mai San (Generate Pulse Powder) which is a formula that effectively boosts the cardio-vascular functions after heart attacks. Usage: It is often used orally, commonly used dosage is 10-15g for decoctions as daily use.

What does ban xia Xie Xin Tang mean?

With Huang Lian, for epigastric pain and distention, dysentery, indeterminate gnawing hunger, vague abdominal pain or discomfort, belching, and nausea. With Zhi Ban Xia, for vomiting of saliva or dry heaves due to Cold-induced congested fluids. With Zhi Gan Cao, for epigastric pain and vomiting due to Spleen and Stomach Deficiency Cold.

What does Zhi ban xia and Gan Jiang mean?

With Zhi Ban Xia and Gan Jiang, for Cold and Heat complexes in the Intestines and Stomach marked by focal distention, nausea, vomiting and feelings of oppression in the chest. With Huang Qin, Zhi Ban Xia and Gan Jiang, for Damp-Heat in the Middle Jiao. Rx. Ginseng

Why is the Pinellia called the Green Dragon?

Pinellia is a Chinese herb from the Araceae family of flowering plants. It is native to Japan and southern China, and is often called the “green dragon” because of the color and shape of its flower. Pinellia’s long, tongue-like spadix is similar in appearance to the waxy peace lily, an ornamental plant commonly displayed in American homes.

How does Huang Lian treat warm febrile disease?

With Huang Lian, drains pathogenic Heat from the Upper and Middle Jiaos for high fever, redness, swelling and pain of the head and face, dry mouth, parched throat, ulcerations of the mouth and tongue, epistaxis, rashes and irritability in warm-febrile disease. Rz. Coptidis