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Traditional Chinese Medicine/Sheng Di Huang
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Name Means:
Sheng-Fresh
Di-Earth or soil
Huang-Yellow
English Name:
rehmannia root
Chinese foxglove root
Latin Name:
Radix Rehmanniae GlutinosaeWO/2008112561/20080918 COMBINATION THERAPY FOR ALLEVIATING PAIN-RELATED CONDITIONS CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED PATENT APPLICATIONS. World Intellectual Property Organization.(WO/2001/091770) COMPOSITIONS FOR TREATING EYE DISCOMFORT CONTAINING HERBALS AND/OR NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS AND/OR MINERALS AND/OR VITAMINS. World Intellectual Property Organization.
Chinese Name:
生地黄 (Simplified Chinese)
生地黃 (Traditional Chinese)
Chinese Pinyin: shēng dì huáng
Taste & Temperature:
../Gan-Sweet/
../Ku-Bitter/
../Han-Cold/
Channels:
Hand Shao Yin of Heart
Foot Jue Yin of Liver
Foot Shao Yin of Kidney
Actions & Indications:
Clear Heat & Cool Blood, for Heat in Blood level
nourish Yin
nourish Yin/Blood and generates fluids
used for wasting and thirsting disorder
cool upward blazing Heart Fire
Contraindications:
Spleen/Stomach deficiency with diarrhea
Spleen deficiency with Damp
Yang deficiency
weak pregnant women with deficient Blood or deficient Spleen/Stomach
should avoid onions, garlic, radishes
Dosage:
3-10 qian (9-30 grams)
NOTES
back to:
../Qing Re Liang Xue/
../TCM Materia Medica/