Category
Clear Heat
Pin Yin
Latin Name
Lonicerae Flos
English Name
Dosage
6-20g
Entering Channels
LI
Flavor
sweet
Temperature
cold
Pregnancy
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Chinese Herbal Formulas (Comprehensive List)
Individual Essential Oils
Kampo Name
Kampo Number
Kanji
Katakana
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Key Characteristics:
Cautions & Contraindications:
- None
Actions & Indications:
- Clears heat and resolves fire toxicity: for hot painful sores and swellings in various stages of development, especially of the breast, throat, or eyes. Also for intestinal abscesses.
- Vents and disperses externally-contracted wind-heat: for the early stages of warm-heat pathogen diseases with such symptoms as fever, slight sensitivity to wind, sore throat, and headache. Also for externally-contracted summerheat.
- Clears damp-heat from the lower burner: for damp-heat dysenteric disorder, diarrhea or painful urinary dribbling.
