Cogongrass
Rhizome (bai mao gen)
Rhizoma
Imperatae
Properties:
The herb is sweet in flavour, cold in nature, and acts on
the heart, lung, stomach and urinary bladder channels.
Being sweet and cold for clearing heat and moistening
dryness, and acting on blood in the heart channel, the
herb can clear heat from blood to stop bleeding; acting on
Qi in the lung and stomach, the herb can clear heat from
the lung and stomach to promote the generation of the body
fluid and moisten dryness. As a sweet and tasteless herb,
it can induce diuresis to treat stranguria. Therefore, the
herb is indicated for bleeding due to blood-heat,
dryness-heat in the lung and stomach, strangury due to
heat, and defficulty and pain in urination.
Effects:
Clearing heat from blood to stop bleeding, inducing
diuresis and promoting the generation of the body fluid.
Indications:
1. To treat many
kinds of bleeding caused by blood-heat, the herb can be
decocted alone or used in combination with Japanese
thistle, field thistle, scutellaria root, dried rehmannia
root and other herbs for clearing heat from blood to stop
bleeding.
2. The herb is
often used in combination with field thistle, plantain
seed, climbing fern spore, capejasmine and other herbs for
inducing diuresis, treating stranguria and stopping
bleeding, to treat stranguria due to heat or hemataria;
and with oriental wormwood, curcuma root and other herbs
for normalizing function of the gallbladder, to treat
jaundice due to damp-heat.
3. To treat
excessive thirst due to febrile disease or vomiting due to
stomach-heat, it can be used in combination with reed
rhizome, bamboo shavings, ophiopogon root and other herbs
for clearing heat, relieving vexation, promoting
generation of the body fluid and alleviating thirst.
Dosage and
Administration:
10-30g.
30-60g for fresh herb.
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