Di Gu Pi
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Di Gu Pi #1081

Pin Ying Name: Di Gu Pi

Chinese Name: 地骨皮

English Name: Lycium Root Peel

Latin Name: Lycii, Cortex

Herbs that Clear Heat: Herbs that Clear Heat from Deficiency
Category
Properties
Taste Temperature Entering Meridians Dosage
Sweet
Bland
Astringent
Cold
Lung
Liver
Kidney
6-15g
Actions & Indications
Taste Temperature Entering Meridians Dosage

Cools the Blood and drains Yin Deficiency Fire (steaming bones) - (drains Kidney Fire, eliminates lurking Heat, and clears Heat from the bones)

  • Yin Deficiency with Empty Fire Rising (Kidney Fire) with night sweats, steaming bone disorder with sweating, tuberculosis, chronic low-grade fever, irritability and thirst
  • Toothache from Floating Fire in the Kidney channel

Clears and drains Heat in the Lung

  • Lung Heat cough or wheezing (asthma)

Clears Heat, cools the Blood and stops bleeding

  • Various bleeding disorders characterized by Heat in the Blood, hematemesis, epistaxis, hematuria
Contraindications
  • Use caution for those with Spleen and Stomach Cold from Deficiency with loose stools.
  • Do not use for those with Exterior disorders.
  • Contraindicated for those with True Cold and False Heat.
  • Do not store in iron.