INDIVIDUAL HERBS

NAME: JUE CHUANG CAO - 爵床草 - HERBA ROSTELLULARIAE

Pharmaceutical Latin: Herba Rostellulariae
Common English: Trailing Water Willow

CATEGORY

Herbs that Clear Heat and Purge Fire

PROPERTIES

Taste Temperature Entering Meridians Dosage
Salty
Acrid
Bitter
Cold
(Cool)
Liver
Gallbladder
Lung
5-15g
30-60g

ACTIONS AND INDICATIONS

Actions Indications/Syndromes

Invigorates the Blood, moves Qi, clears Heat, resolves toxicity, disperses accumulations, disperses extravasated Blood and alleviates pain

Fever, pain due to pharyngo-laryngeal swelling, cough, sore throat, carbuncles, abscesses, ulcers, hepatitis, traumatic injury

Promotes diuresis

Dysentery, jaundice, nephritis, edema, rheumatalgia, malnutrition in infants

CONTRAINDICATIONS, INCOMPATIBILITIES AND HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

CONTRAINDICATIONS
  • Use caution for those with Spleen and Stomach Deficiency Cold.
  • Contraindicated during pregnancy
INCOMPATIBILITIES
HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

MAJOR COMBINATIONS

Fol. Isatidis
Da Qing Ye
Rx. Isatidis
Ban Lan Gen

Spic Prunellae
Xia Ku Cao

Hb. Pteris
Feng Wei Cao
Hb. Leucas Mollissimae
Hu Yue Huang
Gypsum Fibrosum
Shi Gao
Rz. Anemarrhenae
Zhi Mu

A sore throat due to Wind-Heat.

Scrofula.

Summerheat stroke.

Hb. Physalis Angulatae
Pao Zai Cao
Hb. Bidentis
Xian Feng Cao
Spina Gleditsiae
Zao Jiao Ci
Concha Arcae
Wa Leng Zi
Sm. Vaccariae
Wang Bu Liu Xing
Rx. Saposhnikoviae
Fang Feng
Rx. Angelicae Dahuricae
Bai Zhi
Rx. Trichosanthis
Tian Hua Fen
Flos Lonicerae
Jin Yin Hua
Fr. Forsythiae
Lian Qiao

Hb. Physalis Angulatae
Pao Zai Cao
Hb. Bidentis
Xian Feng Cao

Rx. Gentianae
Long Dan Cao
Rx. Scutellariae
Huang Qin
Sm. Plantaginis
Che Qian Zi
Caulis Clematidis Armandii
Chuan Mu Tong
Rx. Achyranthis Bidentatae
Niu Xi
Hb. Polygoni Avicularis
Bian Xu
Hb. Dianthi
Qu Mai

Sores, carbuncles, cellulitis and toxic swellings.

Sores, carbuncles, cellulitis and toxic swellings, topically.

Gonorrhea or sexually transmitted diseases due to Damp-Heat with a yellow discharge.

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