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Stellaria
Root (yin chai hu)
Radix Stellariae
Properties:
Sweet in flavour, slightly cold in nature, it
acts on the liver and stomach channels. The
properties of sweet, cool and moist can clear
away blood-heat, nourish Yin and bring down heat
of deficiency type. Because of its mild actions,
it is the most common herb used to treat heat
due to Yin-deficiency, hectic and tidal fever
and infantile malnutrition syndrome.
Effects:
Bringing down heat of deficiency type, treating
infantile malnutrition with fever.
Indications:
1.
For heat due to Yin-deficiency, night
sweating, hectic fever, it is used in
combination with wolfberry bark, sweet wormwood
and turtle shell to clear away heat of
deficiency type, known as Qing Gu San (Powder of
Clearing Away Heat of Deficiency Type).
2.
For infantile malnutrition due to
indigestion or parastic infection, leanness and
abdominal distention, malnutrition with fever,
it is used in combination with quisqualis fruit,
picrorhiza fhizome, chicken¡¯s gizzard-skin to
enhance digestion, remove stagnancy and kill
intestinal parasites.
Dosage and
Administration:
3-15g.
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