INDIVIDUAL HERBS

NAME: ZI JING PI - 紫荆皮 - CORTEX KADSURAE RADIICIS

Pharmaceutical Latin: Cortex Kadsurae Radicis
Common English: Bark of Chinese Redbud
Kadsura Root-bark

CATEGORY

Herbs that Promote Urination

PROPERTIES

Taste Temperature Entering Meridians Dosage
Bitter
Neutral
Spleen
Stomach
Liver
6-15g

ACTIONS AND INDICATIONS

Actions Indications/Syndromes

Invigorates the Blood, cleanses the Blood, regulates menstruation, resolves swelling, removes toxicity and promotes urination

Qi and Blood Stagnation with dysentery, sores and boils, snake and insect bites, traumatic injury, amenorrhea, pharyngitis, rheumatic arthritis and pain

CONTRAINDICATIONS, INCOMPATIBILITIES AND HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

CONTRAINDICATIONS
  • Contraindicated during pregnancy.
INCOMPATIBILITIES
HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

MAJOR COMBINATIONS

 

 

 

 

 

 

NOTES

  1. This herb can be soaked in wine or made into pills and powder.
  2. Cortex Kadsurae Radicis (Chinese Redbud) is the correct species for this herb. However Cortex Cercis Chinensis is commonly used.