Jing Jie
Name: Schizonepeta (荊芥)
Pinyin: Jing Jie
Pharm. Name: Herba Schizonepetae
Properties:
|
Taste |
Characteristics |
Organs |
Dosage |
|
Acrid, Aromatic |
Dispel wind and release exterior, promote eruption, alleviate itching, charcoaled version stops bleeding. |
Liver, Lung |
3-10g, 30g (Maximum) |
Description:
These are Aerial parts of annual herbacecus plant Schizonepeta tenuifolia. This herb is mIld and indicated for exterior syndromes and is widely used for wind-cold, wind-heat or syndromes where heat or cold are not obvious. It is indicated for wind-cold exterior syndrome, marked by aversion to cold, fever, headache without sweating. It also helps alleviate itching, and it stops bleeding for syndromes such as hematemesis, epistaxis, hematochezia, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis.