INDIVIDUAL HERBS

Pharmaceutical Latin:	Concha Meretricis/Cyclinae
Common English:	Clam Shell Meretrex Meretrex

Taste	Temperature	Entering Meridians	Dosage
Bitter Salty	Cold (Neutral)	Lung Stomach (Kidney)	Fresh, calcined or roasted: 3-16g place in a cheesecloth bag before decocting Powders and Pills: 1-3g

Actions	Indications/Syndromes
Clears Lung Heat, transforms Phlegm and descends Lung Qi	Cough and wheezing due to Phlegm-Heat or Phlegm-Fire with viscous, yellow, difficult to expectorate sputum with chest and rib pain Cough, asthma, bronchitis
Softens hardness and dissipates nodules	Phlegm-Fire goiter and scrofula
Promotes urination and expels Dampness	Milky Lin (turbid, painful urinary dysfunction and vaginal discharge) (mild effect) Superficial edema and urinary dysfunction Phlegm-Dampness (Tan Yin) Lingering Phlegm Persistent Phlegm
Controls acidity and stops pain (calcined and powdered)	Acid regurgitation and epigastric pain with Excess stomach acid, hemorrhoids, bloody dysentery and gastric and duodenal ulcers

CONTRAINDICATIONS

INCOMPATIBILITIES

HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

Rx. Scutellariae Huang Qin Sm. Trichosanthis Gua Lou Ren Rx. Platycodi Jie Geng	Fr. Trichosanthis Gua Lou Fr. Gardeniae Zhi Mu or Fr. Trichosanthis Gua Lou Fr. Gardeniae Zhi Zi Indigo Naturalis Qing Dai	Indigo Naturalis Qing Dai
Phlegm-Heat Clogging the Lungs with a stifling sensation in the chest, wheezing, and coughing up of viscous, yellow sputum.	Phlegm-Fire with chest pains, cough and wheezing.	Red eyes, bitter taste, pain in the ribs, paroxysmal cough and viscous sputum that is difficult to expectorate due to Lung Heat.
Pumex Fu Shi Rz. Cynanchi Stauntonii Bai Qian Cx. Mori Sang Bai Pi	Thallus Eckloniae Kun Bu Sargassum Hai Zao (Concha Arcae) (Wa Leng Zi)	Fr. Malvae Dong Kui Zi Caulis Akebiae Mu Tong
Cough and wheezing due to Phlegm-Fire Obstructing the Lungs.	Goiter and scrofula.	Painful urinary dysfunction.
Cx. Phellodendri Huang Bai	Endoconcha Sepiae Hai Piao Xiao Rz. Corydalis Yan Hu Suo Rx. Glycyrrhizae Gan Cao	Poria Fu Ling Polyporus Zhu Ling Talcum Hua Shi
Vaginal discharge.	Stomach acid. Gastric and duodenal ulcers.	Superficial edema with urinary dysfunction.
Fr. Trichosanthis Gua Lou
Cough with thick, yellow sputum and a stifling sensation in the chest due to Phlegm-Heat with constrained, clumping of Qi. As a complete formula for chest pain due to Phlegm and thin mucus.

This herb immediately reduces clotting in women and also reduces fixed and mobile abdominal masses in men.
It has been shown to inhibit the growth of cancer cells.
This herb treats perspiration in exogenous disease, abdominal Blood Stasis, convulsions and and paralysis of the limbs due to apoplexy.
The meat of this herb treats menoxenia.
Both Ge Qiao and Pumex Fu Shi are salty, cold, clear the Lungs, transform viscous Phlegm and soften areas of hardness. Both are used for cough with Phlegm that is difficult to expectorate due to Phlegm-Heat, scrofula and urinary difficulty. Ge Qiao is heavy and descends Qi. It acts to reduce abdominal masses and eliminate Blood Stagnation. Fu Hai Shi is light and tends to ascend into the Lung channel and Upper Jiao.
Both Ge Qiao and Concha Arcae Wa Leng Zi transform sticky Phlegm and control gastric acid. Ge Qiao is cold and better for Lung Heat and Dryness with coughing of Blood and facilitates fluid metabolism and reduces edema. Wa Leng Zi is neutral and is broadly used for Phlegm Accumulation, transforms Blood Stagnation and reduces abdominal and other masses.
Calcined Meretricis/Cyclinae Duan Hai Ge Qiao is easier to pulverize into a fine powder for burns and eczema. It is used internally for hyperacidity of the Stomach.