Qing Hao

Botanical Name: Artemisiae annuae Herba

Qing Hao

Category: Clear Heat from Deficiency

Dosage: 6-12g

Cautions and Contraindications:

• Contraindicated in those with weak digestion or watery diarrhea.

Actions and Indications:

Qing Hao

• 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.