Mu Dan Pi - Lab Tested, 1lb

Primary Actions and Uses

• Clears heat and cools the blood: For warm-heat pathogens in the blood level causing fever, nosebleed, hemoptysis, or rashes.
• Invigorates the blood and dispels stasis: For amenorrhea, abdominal masses, lumps, or trauma with pain due to blood stasis.
• Clears deficiency heat: For steaming bone disorder, especially after febrile disease or in yin deficiency patterns.
• Clears liver fire: For red, swollen, or painful eyes and flank pain due to liver heat.

Context and Traditional Notes

• Acrid, bitter, and slightly cold; enters the Heart, Liver, and Kidney channels. Classified in TCM as an herb that cools the blood.
• Often used in formulas for both excess and deficiency heat patterns involving the blood, and in gynecological formulas for blood stasis.
• Distinguished from Chi Shao (Red Peony Root) by its stronger heat-clearing and deficiency-heat-clearing properties.