INDIVIDUAL HERBS

NAME: BI QI - 荸荠 - RHIZOMA ELEOCHARITIS

Pharmaceutical Latin: Rhizoma Eleocharitis
Rhizoma Heleocharitis
Common English: Water Chestnut

CATEGORY

Herbs that Transform Phlegm and Stop Coughing

PROPERTIES

Taste Temperature Entering Meridians Dosage
Sweet
Slightly Cold
Cold
Lung
Stomach
Large Intestine
12-120g
Fresh macerated juice or powder: 30-60g

ACTIONS AND INDICATIONS

Actions Indications/Syndromes

Transforms Phlegm and reduces accumulations

Coughing from Phlegm-Heat

Phlegm nodules such as scrofula

Clears Lung and Stomach Heat, generates Fluids and stops thirst

Thirst and constipation from Heat in the Lungs and Stomach with diabetes, jaundice, painful urinary dysfunction, red eyes, throat pain and swelling

Commonly used for Warm Pathogen diseases

Cools the Blood, removes toxins, promotes bowel movement and improves the appetite

Constipation, conjunctivitis, corneal opacity, hard masses and indigestion

CONTRAINDICATIONS, INCOMPATIBILITIES AND HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

CONTRAINDICATIONS
  • Contraindicated for those with Deficiency Cold.
  • Contraindicated for those with Blood Deficiency.
  • Contraindicated for those with a Yin Deficiency cough.
INCOMPATIBILITIES
HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

MAJOR COMBINATIONS

Rz. Phragmitis Recens
Xian Lu Gen
Rx. Ophiopogonis Recens
Xian Mai Men Dong
Nodus Nelumbinis Rhizomatis Recens
Xian Ou Jie
Pear Juice
Li Zhi

 

 

Tai Yin warm pathogenic diseases with intense thirst and spitting up sticky, difficult to expectorate Phlegm.

 

 

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