INDIVIDUAL HERBS

NAME: CHUAN BO SHI - 穿破石 - LIGNUM CUDRANIAE

Pharmaceutical Latin: Lignum Cudraniae
Kudo et Masam
Common English: Cudrania

CATEGORY

Herbs that Clear Wind-Damp-Heat

PROPERTIES

Taste Temperature Entering Meridians Dosage
Sweet
Warm
15-60g

ACTIONS AND INDICATIONS

Actions Indications/Syndromes

Removes Wind and eliminates Dampness

Malaria

Invigorates the Blood and regulates menstruation

Functional uterine bleeding metrorrhagia

Tonifies Deficiency

Consumptive disease

CONTRAINDICATIONS, INCOMPATIBILITIES AND HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

CONTRAINDICATIONS
  • Contraindicated during pregnancy.
INCOMPATIBILITIES
HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

MAJOR COMBINATIONS

 

 

 

 

 

 

NOTES

  1. For chronic pelvic inflammatory disease: Use an enema consisting 15g of this herb, 25g Hb. Hedyotis Bai Hua She She Cao, 25g Flos Lonicerae Jin Yin Hua, 15g Rx. Sophorae Flavescentis Ku Shen, 15g Per. Zanthoxyli Chuan Jiao, and 20g Hb Violae Zi Hua Di Ding. Add 500ml water, decoct to 80-100 ml), add 1% procaine 10ml and 80000 U gentamicin .
  2. Topical application: wash with the decoction.
  3. It is traditionally used to treat dimness of vision.