INDIVIDUAL HERBS

NAME: HONG TIAN KUI - 紅天葵 - (ZI BEI TIAN KUI - 紫背天葵) - HERBA BEGONIAE FIMBRISTIPULATAE

Pharmaceutical Latin: Herba Begoniae Fimbristipulatae
Common English: Tea Begonia

CATEGORY

Herbs that Clear Heat: Herbs that Clear Heat and Resolve Toxicity

PROPERTIES

Taste Temperature Entering Meridians Dosage
Sweet
(Acrid)
Cool
(Cold)
Liver
Stomach
3-15g

ACTIONS AND INDICATIONS

Actions Indications/Syndromes

Cleares Heat, cools the Blood, invigorates the Blood, breaks up Blood Stasis and resolves toxicity

Lung Heat with cough, trauma, pain from Blood Stasis, toxic sores, irregular menses, vaginal discharge, rheumatism, Internal and External injuries from impacts, hemoptysis, metrorrhagia, bronchitis, inflammation of the pelvic area, dysentery caused by amoebic infection, bleeding from external injuries, scrofula

CONTRAINDICATIONS, INCOMPATIBILITIES AND HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

CONTRAINDICATIONS
  • Contraindicated for those with Yin-type boils.
INCOMPATIBILITIES
HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

MAJOR COMBINATIONS

Flos Lonicerae
Jin Yin Hua
Hb. Taraxaci
Pu Gong Ying
Flos Chrysanthemi Indici
Ye Ju Hua

 

 

Boils and other sores.

 

 

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