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Tong Cao - Lab Tested, 1lb

Tong Cao - Lab Tested, 1lb

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Facilitates the fluid metabolism of the Lungs, promotes lactation by raising the Stomach qi* - Bensky


Excerpted from Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

  • Promotes urination and clears heat: for damp-warmth or damp-heat painful urinary dribbling. Usually prescribed as an assistant or envoy.*
  • Promotes lactation in cases where it is insufficient or absent.*

English Name: Rush Pith, rice paper plant pith, tetrapanax
Chinese Name: Tong Cao
Unit Size: 1 pound
Potency: 1:1
Taste: Sweet, bland - Bensky
Properties: slightly cold - Bensky
Channels Entered: Lung, Stomach - Bensky
Actions: Facilitates the fluid metabolism of the Lungs, promotes lactation by raising the Stomach qi - Bensky
Pattern: Damp-warmth or damp-heat urinary disorder - Bensky
Chinese Symptomology: Damp-warmth or damp-het painful urinary dribbling, Insufficient lactation - Bensky
Contraindications: Overdosage can cause such side effects as nausea, vomiting, epigastric pain, increase of triglyceride synthesis in the liver, hyperlipidemia, hypercholesterinemia - Bensky


Ingredients

Tong Cao - Helwingia japonica

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