INDIVIDUAL HERBS

NAME: QING GUO - 青果 - FRUCTUS CANARII

Pharmaceutical Latin: Fructus Canarii
Common English: Chinese White Olive

CATEGORY

Herbs that Clear Heat: Herbs that Clear Heat and Relieve Toxicity

PROPERTIES

Taste Temperature Entering Meridians Dosage
Sweet
Sour
Neutral
Lung
Stomach
Spleen
4.5-15g

ACTIONS AND INDICATIONS

Actions Indications/Syndromes

Clears Heat, resolves toxicity, generates fluids and improves the condition of the throat

Sore throat due to Win-Heat Invasion or Heat Toxin Accumulation

Dry, parched mouth and throat with irritability, thirst hoarseness, coughing with sticky sputum (fresh made into a paste), epilepsy, polydipsia, hematemesis with coughing, bacillary dysentery, fugutoxin

Resolves alcoholic intoxication

Alcohol intoxication

CONTRAINDICATIONS, INCOMPATIBILITIES AND HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

CONTRAINDICATIONS
  • This herb may make pox or acne emerge.
INCOMPATIBILITIES
HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

MAJOR COMBINATIONS

Borax
Peng Shi
Borneolum
Bing Pian
Indigo Naturalis
Qing Dai

Flos Lonicerae
Jin Yin Hua
Rx. Platycodi
Jie Geng
Rz. Phragmitis
Lu Gen

 

Apply topically as a powder for sore throat from Wind-Heat or Heat Toxin

Dray, parched throat with a raspy voice

 

NOTES

  1. This herb unbinds the Stomach and descends Qi and halts diarrhea.
  2. Make a soup from the flesh of ten olives to relieve drunkenness.
  3. It is said that chewing and swallowing the juice resolves all toxins from fish and tortoises.
  4. It can resolve fish bones stuck in the throat.