Category
Extinguish Wind & Stop Tremors
Pin Yin
Latin Name
Haliotidis Concha
English Name
Dosage
15-30g
Entering Channels
KD
Flavor
salty
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:
- Cools Liver heat
- Anchors Liver yang
- Extinguishes Liver wind
- Nourishes Liver yin
Cautions & Contraindications:
- Use with caution in those with cold from deficiency of the Spleen and Stomach with reduced appetite and loose stools.
Actions & Indications:
- Drains Liver fire and anchors and sedates the Liver yang: for Liver fire and ascendant Liver yang patterns with such symptoms as headache, dizziness, and red eyes.
- Improves the vision and causes superficial visual obstruction to recede: for Liver heat patterns that affect the eyes causing photophobia, pterygium or other superficial visual obstructions, red eyes, and blurred vision.
- Recently also used for increased gastric acidity, and, topically, for bleeding due to trauma.
