INDIVIDUAL HERBS

Pharmaceutical Latin:	Bulbus Allii
Common English:	Scallion Spring Onion Chinese Green Onion Chive Alium

Taste	Temperature	Entering Meridians	Dosage
Acrid	Warm Slightly Warm	Lung Stomach	2-10g Tincture: 2-4ml

Actions	Indications/Syndromes
Releases the exterior and induces sweating	Wind-Cold especially very early stages
Disperses Cold and unblocks Yang	Abdominal pain due to blockage of Yang Qi by Cold Nasal congestion and pain due to blockage of Yang Qi by Cold
Relieves toxicity and disperses clumps	Toxic sores and abscesses (topical)
Kills parasites	Abdominal pain due to Intestinal parasites

CONTRAINDICATIONS

Contraindicated for those with exterior Deficiency with profuse sweat (Tai Yang Zhong Feng).
Use with caution for those with Yin Deficiency and Yang Excess.
Large doses can produce gastric irritation, hemorrhoids, headache and fever.
Over use can injure the beard and head hair and cause confusion due to Yin Deficiency with deficient Heat rising upward.

INCOMPATIBILITIES

HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

Sm. Sojae Preparata Dan Dou Chi (Rz. Zingiberis Recens) (Sheng Jiang)	Fol. Perillae Zi Su Ye	Hb. Ephedrae Ma Huang (Rx. Puerariae) (Ge Gen)
Initial stages of External Wind-Cold invasion.	Early stage colds.	Wind-Cold without sweating. Eliminates Fluid retention and promotes urination to treat Wind-Water. (facial, head and upper body edema)
Rx. Angelicae Dahuricae Bai Zhi	Apis Mel (Honey) Feng Mi	Sm. Sojae Preparata Dan Dou Chi
Splitting headache during colds.	As an external poultice for sores and abscesses.	Treats elderly or weak patients, pregnant women and children during any season for either Hot or Cold pathogens. During influenza epidemics as a preventative Early-stage Wind-Cold with chills, anhidrosis, headache, nasal congestion and sneezing
Fr. Gardeniae Zhi Zi Fr. Forsythiae Lian Qiao Hb. Menthae Bo He	Rx. Aconiti Lateralis Preparata Zhi Fu Zi Rx. Zingiberis Sheng Jiang	Colla Corii Asini E Jiao
Wind-Cold with Interior Heat.	Internal Cold blocking the Yang.	Constipation.

Honey slows the energy. Brown sugar is all right.
For Cold type abdominal pain, apply heated Cong Bai to the umbilicus.
For dysuria stir fry and apply topically on the lower abdomen.
Cong Bai and Bul. Allii Macrostemi Xie Bai both enter the Lungs and are warm and acrid. Cong Bai releases the exterior with a mild diaphoretic action that is lacking in Xie Bai. It enters the Stomach channel rather than the Large Intestine channel and is used for diarrhea due to Shao Yin Cold . Xie Bai facilitates the orifices, unblocks the Large Intestine in dysenteric disorders brought on by Cold Stagnation, is bitter warmer and better able to move Qi, which enables it to drive out Cold from the chest and scour turbid Phlegm to unbind chest Bi with pain that penetrates to the back with wheezing and shortness of breath.
Scallion Bulb with Rootlets Lian Xu is used to unblock Qi. Fresh, it is acrid to disperse warm and unblock the Lung and Stomach channels. Cooked, it is acrid, warm and sweet.