Category
Clear Heat from Deficiency
Pin Yin
Latin Name
Artemisiae Annuae Herba
English Name
Dosage
6-12g
Entering Channels
GB
Flavor
bitter
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:
- Contraindicated in those with weak digestion or watery diarrhea.
Actions & Indications:
- Clears summerheat: especially for summerheat with low fever, headache, dizziness, and a stifling sensation in the chest.
- Clears fever from deficiency: for fevers from either blood deficiency or as the sequalae of a febrile disease. Especially useful when steaming bone patterns are marked by an absence of sweating.
- Clears heat and stops bleeding: for purpuric rashes or nosebleed due to heat in the blood.
- Checks malarial disorders and resolves heat: for the alternating fever and chills of malarial disorders.
