INDIVIDUAL HERBS

NAME: YU BIAO (JIAO) - 鱼鳔(膠) - COLLA PISCES

Pharmaceutical Latin: Colla Pisces
Ichthyocolla
Common English: Bladder Fish
Swimming Bladder
Air-Bladder Fish

CATEGORY

Kidney Tonifying Herbs

PROPERTIES

Taste Temperature Entering Meridians Dosage
Sweet
Neutral
Liver
Kidney
Stomach
9-30g
Powder: 3-6g

ACTIONS AND INDICATIONS

Actions Indications/Syndromes

Nourishes Yin, subdues Yang and nourishes the Liver and Kidneys

Seminal emission, low libido, low back and knee weakness and soreness, cough

Stops bleeding, dissipates Blood Stasis and resolves swelling

Hemoptysis, traumatic hemorrhage, hematemesis, hemorrhoids, metrorrhagia

Calms the fetus

Restless fetus, tetanus, postpartum convulsion

CONTRAINDICATIONS, INCOMPATIBILITIES AND HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

CONTRAINDICATIONS
  • Contraindicated for those with a poor appetite and excessive Phlegm.
INCOMPATIBILITIES
HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

MAJOR COMBINATIONS

 

 

 

 

 

 

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