INDIVIDUAL HERBS

Pharmaceutical Latin:	Radix Scutellariae Barbatae
Common English:	Bearded Scutellaria Barbat Skullcap Barbed Skullcap Root

Taste	Temperature	Entering Meridians	Dosage
Acrid Slightly Bitter (Bitter)	Cool (Cold) (Neutral)	Liver Lung Stomach (Large Intestine) (Kidney) (Heart)	9-30g Cancers: up to 60g Tincture: 2-5ml

Actions	Indications/Syndromes
Clears Heat, resolves Fire toxins, invigorates the Blood and reduces swellings	Furuncles, sores and abscesses (Chuang Yung) Snakebite Swellings due to trauma
Treats various types of cancer and hepatitis	Cancer and hepatitis
Promotes urination and reduces edema	Edema due to Damp-Heat Ascites from cirrhosis
Mildly dispels Blood Stasis and stops bleeding	Bleeding from trauma, hematemesis, epistaxis, and painful bloody urinary dysfunction

CONTRAINDICATIONS

INCOMPATIBILITIES

HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

Flos Chrysanthemi Indici Ye Ju Hua Hb. Violae Zi Hua Di Ding	Carapax Trionycis Bie Jia Rx. Salviae Miltiorrhizae Dan Shen Rx. Paeoniae Alba Bai Shao	Hb. Hedyotidis Bai Hua She She Cao Fr. Akebiae Ba Yue Zha
Furuncles	Liver cancer	Cancers of the digestive tract
Rz. Alismatis Ze Xie Hb. Lobeliae Ban Bian Lian Stigma Maydis Yu Mi Xu	Fr. Gardeniae Zhi Zi Cx. Phellodendri Huang Bai Hb. Artemisiae Scopariae Yin Chen Hao	Hb. Houttuyniae Yu Xing Cao
Edema	Damp-Heat jaundice	Lung abscess
Hb. Hedyotidis Diffusae Bai Hua She She Cao
Cancer

Some sources list this herb in the Anti-Cancer category.
It is mostly used for toxic sore throat and cancers.
This herb cools Heat, resolves toxicity, expels Wind, disperses Blood, promotes movement of Qi, facilitates water, unblocks the collaterals, breaks up Stasis, and alleviates pain. It treats Blood Lin syndrome, hematemesis, and epistaxis internally and poisonous snakebite, boils, abscesses, deep-set noxious sores and toxic swellings topically.
Both Ban Zhi Lian and Hb. Andrographitis Chuan Xin Lian clear Heat, resolve toxicity, reduce swelling and alleviate pain. Ban Zhi Lian is acrid, bitter and cold and is better at eliminating Stagnation, reducing swelling and alleviating pain. It is used for Lung, Stomach and Intestinal abscesses (including cancers) and Blood Stasis due to trauma. Chuan Xin Lian is bitter, cold and better at clearing Heat and resolving toxicity. It also cools Blood Heat, and reduces swelling and is much more bitter than Ban Zhi Lian. this is one of the most frequently used anti-cancer herbs.