INDIVIDUAL HERBS

Pharmaceutical Latin:	Concha Mauritiae/Cypraeae Concha Mauritiae Arabicae
Common English:	Cowry Shell Arabic Cowry Shell

Taste	Temperature	Entering Meridians	Dosage
Salty	Neutral	Liver (Heart) (Spleen)	6-15g Smash and decoct first. Refine with water for eye drop application.

Actions	Indications/Syndromes
Calms the Liver, anchors Yang and sedates fright (calms the Shen) and Calms convulsions.	Liver Yang Rising or Deranged Heart Yang with dizziness, vertigo, palpitations and insomnia Mania due to fevers
Clears the Liver, cools Heat and brightens the eyes	Red, swollen eyes with superficial visual obstruction, macula in children, cataracts, nebulae Toxic heat, purulent Blood, dysentery
Promotes diuresis	Edema, leg Qi, hematuria, urinary retention

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INCOMPATIBILITIES

HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

Concha Haliotidis Jue Ming Zi Concha Ostreae Mu Li Magnetitum Ci Shi	Ram. cum Uncis Uncariae Gou Teng Gypsum Fibrosum Shi Gao Cornu Saigae Tataricae Ling Yang Jiao	Periostracum Cicadae Chan Tui Fr. Gardeniae Zhi Zi Flos Chrysanthemi Ju Hua
Liver Yang Rising with dizziness, vertigo, palpitations and insomnia	Febrile convulsions in children	Blazing Liver Fire affecting the eyes
Succinum Hu Po Concha Haliotidis Jue Ming Zi Margarita Zhen Zhu	Concha Margaritaferae Usta *Zhen Zhu Mu* Rz. Coptidis Huang Lian Cornu Cervi Pantotrichum Ling Yang Jiao	Flos Chrysanthemi Ju Hua Fol. Mori Sang Ye Ram. cum Uncis Uncariae Gou Teng
Red, swollen, painful eyes with superficial visual obstruction For poxes in children entering the eyes	Palpitations, irritability, insomnia, dream-disturbed sleep or infantile convulsions due to high fever	Wind and Heat in the Liver channel manifested as red, swollen and painful eyes or visual obstructions Hyperactivity of Liver Yang manifested as dizziness, vertigo and headache

The drug is collected in summer, removed from muscles, washed clean, and dried in the sun.
Crush before decocting.
This herb treats superficial obstruction due to Toxic Heat, spots and rashes in children threatening the eyes and night terrors preventing sleep.
The white parts are said to enter the Qi level and the purple parts enter the Blood level.
It facilitates and unblocks water channels, drives out toxins and descends blood.
This herb is used to resolve and eliminate all urinary blockage, edema, leg Qi, macular rashes and superficial visual obstruction in children and toxins.
It dissolves hardness.
It is used as drops for superficial visual obstruction.
Both Zi Bei Chi and Fossilia Dentis Mastodi Long Chi enter the Liver channel, calm the Liver, anchor Yang and sedate fright, Zi Bei Chi is neutral, is better at anchoring Yang and brightens the eyes, while Long Chi is heavier and more astringent and better at sedating and quieting and is able to stabilize and bind.
Calcined Cowry Shell Duan Zi Bei Chi is processed and used as eye drops.
It is also known as Bei Ci or Zi Bei.