Biota
Tops
(ce
bo ye)
Cacumen
Biotae
Properties:
The herb is bitter and puckery in flavour, slightly cold
in nature, and acts on the lung, liver and large intestine
channels. Being bitter and cold for clearing heat, and
heat from blood to stop bleeding, the herb is used to
treat bleeding due to blood-heat. Acting on the lung
channel for purifying and lowering the lung-Qi, resolving
phlegm and relieving cough, the herb is used to treat
cough due to phlegm and heat in the lung. It is
particularly appropriate for patients with hemoptysis to
use the herb.
Effects:
Clearing heat from blood to stop bleeding, resolving
phlegm and relieving cough.
Indications:
1. The herb is
often used in combination with lotus leaf, dried rehmannia
root and argyi leaf for strengthening the effect of
clearing heat from blood to stop bleeding, such as Sisheng
Pill, to treat haematemesis, appostaxis, hematochizia,
merorrhea and metrostaxis and many other kinds of bleeding
caused by blood-heat; and with prepared ginger, argyi
leaf, astragalus root, white atracylodes rhizome and other
herbs for supplementing Qi and warming the channels to
stop bleeding, to treat bleeding due to cold of
insufficiency type.
2. The treat cough
due to lung-heat or expectoration with bloody sputum, the
herb can be ground into powder and made into a
concentrated decoction with Chinese date for drinking, or
it is used in combination with scutellaria root,
cogongrass rhizome, fritillary bulb and other herbs for
clearing heat from the lung, resolving phlegm and
relieving cough.
Dosage and
Administration:
10-15g.
Used raw or stir-baked charred.
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