Hu Huang Lian, 1lb

Clears heat from both excess and deficiency, cools the blood, dries dampness; especially indicated for cooling steaming bones and reducing childhood nutritional impairment.* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

English Name: Picrorhizae Rhizoma
Unit Size: 1 pound
Potency: 1:1
Taste: Bitter - Bensky
Properties: Cold - Bensky
Channels Entered: Liver, Stomach, Large Intestine - Bensky
Actions: Clears heat from both excess and deficiency, cools the blood, dries dampness; especially indicated for cooling steaming bones and reducing childhood nutritional impairment.
Pattern: Yin deficiency with heat signs; childhood nutritional impairment; Damp-heat - Bensky
Chinese Symptomology: recurring afternoon fevers from steaming bone disorder; fever associated with childhood nutritional impairment; damp-heat dysenteric disorder - Bensky
Materia Medica: Clear Heat from Deficiency
Contraindications: Use with caution in those with cold from deficiency of the Spleen and Stomach. - Bensky