Category
Cool
Pin Yin
Latin Name
Mori Folium
English Name
Dosage
4.5-9g
Entering Channels
LU
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:
- None
Actions & Indications:
- Disperses and scatters wind-heat: for externally-contracted wind-heat with fever, headache, sore throat, and coughing.
- Calms the Liver and clears the eyes: for eye problems due to Liver heat from excess, wind-heat, or yin deficiency. Also for vertigo due to ascendant Liver yang. Common symptoms include red, sore, dry or painful eyes, or spots in front of the eyes.
- Clears the Lungs and moistens dryness: for Lung dryness with cough, and dry mouth or Lung heat with thick, yellow sputum.
- Cools the blood and stops bleeding: for mild cases of vomiting of blood due to heat in the blood.
Related Herbal Formulas
Combinations:
- Ju Hua: fever, headache, sore throat, red swollen eyes.
- Xing Ren: cough.