INDIVIDUAL HERBS

NAME: REN ZHONG BAI - 人中白 = DEPOSITUM URINAE HOMINIS

Pharmaceutical Latin: Depositum Urinae Hominis
Common English: Human Urine Sediment

CATEGORY

Herbs that Clear Heat and Purge Fire

PROPERTIES

Taste Temperature Entering Meridians Dosage
Salty
Cool
Cold
Lung
Heart
Bladder
San Jiao
3-6g

ACTIONS AND INDICATIONS

Actions Indications/Syndromes

Clears Heat, reduces pathogenic Fire and resolves Blood Stagnation

Hematemesis, nose bleeding, noma, pharyngitis, pulmonary asthenia, aphthae, consumptive fever, sore throat, mouth and gum ulcers, gingivitis, headaches

Fever due to over work

CONTRAINDICATIONS, INCOMPATIBILITIES AND HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

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

MAJOR COMBINATIONS

Moschus
She Xiang

Pheretima
Di Long

 

Epistaxis.

Frontal headache.

 

NOTES

  1. This herb is used for a wide variety of conditions characterized by Heat in the Upper, Middle and Lower Jiaos.
  2. It is used alone for edema.