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Traditional Chinese Medicine/Ku-Bitter
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Bitter:
clears Heat
sedates and hardens
clears Damp-Heat
subdues Rebellious Qi
List of Bitter Herbs
Spicy-Warm:
NameLatinChinese PinyinEnglish../Ma Huang/Herba Ephedrae 麻黄má huáng Hemp../Qiang Huo/Radix Et Rhizoma Notopterygii羌活qiāng huóRhizome and root of Notopterygium incisum Ting ex H.T. Chang or Notopterygium forbesii Boiss Guang-Sheng Qian, Qing Wang, Kelvin Sze-Yin Leung, Yong Qin, Zhongzhen Zhao, Zhi-Hong Jiang, "Quality assessment of Rhizoma et Radix Notopterygii by HPTLC and HPLC fingerprinting and HPLC quantitative analysis", Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, Volume 44, Issue 3, 27 July 2007, Pages 812-817.
Spicy-Cool/Cold:
../Niu Bang Zi/
../Sang Ye/
../Ju Hua/
../Man Jing Zi/
../Dan Dou Chi/
../Mu Zei/
../Chai Hu/
Clear Heat & Purge Fire:
../Zhi Mu/
../Zhi Zi/
../Xia Ku Cao/
../Jue Ming Zi/
Clear Blood-Heat:
../Sheng Di Huang/
../Xuan Shen/
../Mu Dan Pi/
../Bai Wei/
back to:
../Taste & Temperature/
../TCM Materia Medica/
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