INDIVIDUAL HERBS

Pharmaceutical Latin:	Calyx Kaki
Common English:	Persimmon Calyx Kaki Diospyros

Taste	Temperature	Entering Meridians	Dosage
Bitter Astringent (Acrid)	Neutral (Warm)	Lung Stomach	3-12g Tincture: 2-3ml

Actions

Indications/Syndromes

Descends Qi and stops hiccoughs

Stomach dysfunction with belching, or hiccough

Treats both Hot and Cold patterns with additional appropriate herbs

CONTRAINDICATIONS

Contraindicated for those with prolapse of the uro-genital organs due to Qi Deficiency.

INCOMPATIBILITIES

HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

Flos Caryophylli Ding Xiang Rz. Zingiberis Recens Sheng Jiang	Rz. Phragmitis Lu Gen Caulis Bambusae in Taenium Zhu Ru	Flos Caryophylli Ding Xiang
Hiccoughs and vomiting due to Stomach Cold	Belching and vomiting due to Stomach Heat	Stops hiccough and reduces vomiting due to Stomach Cold Treats hiccough due to a combin-ation of Heat and Cold
Sm. Juglandis Hu Tao Ren	Rx. Codonopsis Dang Shen Rx. Ginseng Ren Shen Rz. Atractylodis Macrocephalae Bai Zhu
Simultaneously tonifies the Lungs and Kidneys	Hiccoughs in the elderly or due to Deficiency

The ripe fruit is used for thirst, cough, and spitting blood.
Persimmon Frost Shi Shuang, (Kaki Cake Shi Shuang Bing) is sweet, cool and moist, enters the Lung and Heart channels and treats dry cough from Lung heat dry sore throat, dry mouth, tongue ulcers, spitting blood, hematemesis, hematuria, hernia, wasting and thirsting and dysentery.
The Kaki saccharum (the white powder on the cake) is used for dry cough, dry throat, thirst and spitting blood.
The Kaki Siccatus succus (the extracted juice of the unripe fruit) is used for hypertension, bleeding, hemorrhoids and constipation.
The ripe fruit is eaten for thirst, cough and spitting of Blood.