INDIVIDUAL HERBS

Pharmaceutical Latin:	Radix Stellariae
Common English:	Stellaria Root Starwort Root

Taste	Temperature	Entering Meridians	Dosage
Sweet	Slightly Cold (Cool) (Cold)	Liver Stomach (Kidney)	3-10g Tincture: 1-3ml

Actions	Indications/Syndromes
Clears Deficiency Heat	Yin Deficient Fire with steaming bone disorder or any Yin Deficient fever
Clears Heat and reduces childhood nutritional impairment	Childhood nutritional impairment due to accumulation with Heat with fever and thirst
Cools the Blood and stops bleeding	Bleeding due to Blood Heat, bleeding hemorrhoids Residual Heat from late stage febrile disease

CONTRAINDICATIONS

INCOMPATIBILITIES

HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

Rz. Picrorhizae Hu Huang Lian Carapax Trionycis Bie Jia	Fr. Gardeniae Zhi Zi Rx. Scutellariae Huang Qin Rx. Codonopsis Dang Shen or Fr. Gardeniae Zhi Zi Rx. Scutellariae Huang Qin Rz. Picrorhizae Hu Huang Lian	Carapax Trionycis Bie Jia
Steaming bone disorder due to Blood Deficiency. Lingering Heat with recurrent afternoon fevers or hematemesis, epistaxis, and excessive uterine bleeding due to Heat in the Blood.	Fever, emaciation, thirst, and red eyes due to Liver chronic childhood nutritional impairment.	Deficiency Heat without sweating. Febrile disorders with tidal fevers, a thin body and dry skin and nails.
Cx. Lycii Di Gu Pi Hb. Artemisiae Annuae Qing Hao Carapax Trionycis Bie Jia
Yin Deficiency Heat with night sweats and steaming bone sensations.

This is a fine herb for treating consumption and childhood nutritional impairment.
It is ideal for entering deep into the Yin level to treat muscle-layer Heat or steaming bones from Deficiency.
Both Yin Chai Hu and Rx. Bupleuri Chai Hu clear Heat but are otherwise unrelated. Yin Chai Hu cools and reduces Heat due specifically to Deficiency and has no raising quality. Chai Hu vents and cools exterior Heat, has the ability to raise and excels at treating alternating chills and fever, but cannot clear Heat from Deficiency or treat childhood nutritional impairment.
Both Yin Chai Hu and Hb. Artemisiae Annuae Qing Hao cool the Blood and reduce steaming bones. Qing Hao is acrid, fragrant, vents warm pathogens outward from the Yin level to the Yang level and is most appropriate for Heat at night which cools in the morning due to Ying Level injury by warm pathogen. It also resolves summerheat and treats alternating chills and fever of malarial disorders. Yin Chai Hu does not clear Heat by venting, but does treat Heat due to childhood nutritional impairment.
Yin Chai Hu, Hb Artemisiae Annuae Qing Hao, and Rx. Cynanchi Atrati Bai Wei all clear pathogenic Heat. Qing Hao does not cool the Lungs or facilitate urination. Rx. Stellariae Yin Chai Hu does not vent Heat or vent Blood Heat outward, but only cools Blood Heat internally.