INDIVIDUAL HERBS

Pharmaceutical Latin:	Herba Commelinae
Common English:	Commelina Communis Common Dayflower

Taste	Temperature	Entering Meridians	Dosage
Sweet Bland	Cold	Lung Stomach Small Intestine Kidney Large Intestine (Urinary Bladder)	9-30g Fresh 60-90g

Actions

Indications/Syndromes

Cools Heat, drains Fire and slightly resolves toxicity and cools the Blood

Fever from relatively superficial warm pathogens

Fever and sore throat of the common cold

Stubborn fever from a warm pathogen disease

Leukorrhea, sores and boils, metrorrhagia, hepatitis with jaundice, erysipelas, barbiers, parotitis, epistaxis, dysentery

Clears Heat, facilitates urination and unblocks painful urinary dysfunction

Hot, painful urinary dysfunction and edema, hematuria

Edema with scanty urination

Acute rheumatoid arthritis, uropenia

CONTRAINDICATIONS

INCOMPATIBILITIES

HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

Hb. Menthae Haplocalycis Bo He Fr. Arctii Niu Bang Zi	Gypsum Fibrosum Shi Gao Rz. Phragmitis Lu Gen	Hb. Spirodelae Fu Ping Rx. Imperatae Bai Mao Gen
Qi level diseases.	A sore, swollen throat. A sore throat from the mumps.	Hot, painful urinary dysfunction with Exterior symptoms.
Hb. Plantaginis Che Qian Zi Hb. Lophatheri *Dan Zhu Ye*
Painful urinary dysfunction from Urinary Bladder Damp-Heat.

This herb can be used alone for both internally and externally generated toxic swellings and sores
the fresh herb can be used alone for unremitting fevers.
For external application, pound into a pulp.
This herb is able to detoxify any type of food poisoning.
Both this herb and Hb. Lophatheri Dan Zhu Ye clear Heat and promote urination. Hb. Commelinae Ya Zhi Cao is stronger than Hb. Lophatheri Dan Zhu Ye in both cooling and facilitating urination, but the effects are less prolonged.