INDIVIDUAL HERBS

NAME: BI LI - 薜荔 - (XUE LI SHI, MU MAN TOU) - FRUCTUS FICI PUMILAE

Pharmaceutical Latin: Fructus Fici Pumilae
Common English: Ficus Pumila
Jelly Seed
Creeping Fig

CATEGORY

Herbs that Regulate the Blood: Herbs that Invigorate the Blood

PROPERTIES

Taste Temperature Entering Meridians Dosage
Sweet
Sour
Astringent
Neutral
Stomach
6-15g

ACTIONS AND INDICATIONS

Actions Indications/Syndromes

Tonifies the Kidneys and fortifies sperm

Nocturnal emissions, impotence, chronic diarrhea, Strangury

Invigorates the Blood, disperses swelling and removes toxicity

Sores, boils, traumatic injury, hemorrhoids, agalactia, rectal prolapse

Cancer due to Qi, Blood and Phlegm Stagnation

Expels Wind-Dampness

Rheumatic arthritis

CONTRAINDICATIONS, INCOMPATIBILITIES AND HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

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NOTES

  1. This herb may be pounded into a juice, or soaked in wine or made into a powder.
  2. Mixed with cereal oil, this herb treat infections such as: cellulitis, carbuncle, scabies, impetigo, breast mass and ulcerated smallpox
  3. This herb treats sore throat, pharyngitis and hemorrhoids.
  4. The juice treats warts (verruca) topically.
  5. This herb has been shown to be effective in treating Stomach, pharyngolaryngeal, cervical and Bladder cancers and adenocarcinoma.
  6. The leaves of the plant are considered to be the best for hemorrhoids.