INDIVIDUAL HERBS

NAME: YIN ER - 银耳 - (BAI YIN ER, BAI MU ER) - TREMELLA

Pharmaceutical Latin: Tremella
Common English: White Wood Ear
Silver Ear

CATEGORY

Herbs that Nourish Yin

PROPERTIES

Taste Temperature Entering Meridians Dosage
Sweet
Bland
Neutral
Lung
Stomach
(Kidney)
3-9g

ACTIONS AND INDICATIONS

Actions Indications/Syndromes

Nourishes Stomach Yin, and generates Fluids

Yin Deficiency with Yang Rising, emaciation, Five Sole Heat,

 

Nourishes Lung Yin and moistens the Lungs

Lung Heat, Lung Dryness, with a dry nonproductive cough or Blood-streaked sputum, Lung consumption, pulmonary tuberculosis

CONTRAINDICATIONS, INCOMPATIBILITIES AND HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

CONTRAINDICATIONS
  • Contraindicated for those with Exterally contracted Wind-Cold.
INCOMPATIBILITIES
HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

MAJOR COMBINATIONS

Fr, Jujube
Da Zao
Sm. Nelumbinis
Lian Zi
Lean Pork

Rx. Pseudostellariae
Tai Zi Shen
Rock Sugar

Bul. Lilii
Bai He
Rx. Glehniae/Adenophorae
Sha Shen
Rz. Dioscoreae
Shan Yao

Debility in the aftermath of a prolonged illness.

Palpitations and shortness of breath.

Injured Yin, leading to thirst and a dry, parched mouth and throat.

Cx. Lycii
Di Gu Pi
Cx. Moutan
Mu Dan Pi
Rx, Stellariae
Yin Chai Hu

 

 

Five Sole Heat.

 

 

NOTES

  1. This herb is most often used as a food.
  2. Bedcause of its pleasant taste, it is often used as a desert, cooke with Sm. Nelumbinis Lian Zi and rock sugar.