INDIVIDUAL HERBS

Pharmaceutical Latin:	Radix Ilicis Pubescentis
Common English:	Ilex Pubescentis Hairy Holly Root Winter Green

Taste	Temperature	Entering Meridians	Dosage
Bitter Acrid Astringent	Slightly Cold (Neutral) (Cold)	Heart Spleen (Lung) (Liver)	15-120g Phlebitis: 500g Tincture: 2-5ml

Actions

Indications/Syndromes

Invigorates the Blood and unblocks the channels and collaterals

Heart Blood Stasis with chest pain and stroke with hemiplegia

heart Qi Stagnation

Chest Bi

Clears Heat, resolves toxicity and stops coughing

Lung Heat cough

Wind-Heat cough

Swollen, painful throat

Topically, as a powder for burns

CONTRAINDICATIONS

INCOMPATIBILITIES

HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

Use with caution for patients taking anticoagulants such as heparin, warfarin (Coumadin) and enoxaparin (Lovenox) or antiplatelet drugs such as aspirin, dipyridamole (Persantine) and clopidogrel (Plavix) as concurrent use may have an additive or synergistic effect.

Rx. Salviae Miltiorrhizae Dan Shen Flos Carthami Hong Hua Sm. Persicae Tao Ren	Rx. Scutellariae Huang Qin Fr. Trichosanthis Gua Lou	Lasiosphera/Calvatia Ma Bo Rz. Belamcandae She Gan
Chest pain and hemiplegia due to Blood Stasis	Cough due to Lung Heat	Swollen, painful throat
Flos Lonicerae Jin Yin Hua	Rx. Salviae Miltiorrhizae Dan Shen Flos Carthami Hong Hua Sm. Persicae Tao Ren Rz. Chuan Xiong Chuan Xiong
Sloughing ulcer Toxic disorders	Xiong Bi, paralysis

This is a recent addition to the pharmacopia, first noted in the twentieth century.
It is said to treat the common cold due to Wind-Heat, tonsillitis, dysentery, coronary artery disease, vasculitis, erysipelas, central retinitis, uveitis, suppurative dermal disease, Buerger's disease, Angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, hypertension and thromboangitis obliterans.
Both Mao Dong Qing and Rx. Salviae Miltiorrhizae Dan Shen invigorate and cool the Blood. Mao Dong Qing enters the Heart and Spleen, is bitter and draining and acrid and dispersing. It is stronger at resolving toxicity, cools the Lungs, transforms Phlegm and stops cough. Dan Shen is bitter, slightly Cold, and enters the Blood levels of the Liver, Heart and Pericardium. It invigorates the Blood, transforms Stasis and tonifies and cools the Blood. It reduces swelling and eliminates irritability and is more appropriate for gynecological use than Mao Dong Qing.