Wiseman’s Chinese Medical Database

yín chái hú / 银柴胡 / 銀柴胡 / stellaria

Latin pharmacognostic name: Stellariae Radix

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Origin: Plant

Use: medicinal

Category: Heat-clearing agents / Vacuity-heat–clearing agents

Properties: Sweet; slightly cold. (Some sources also say bitter.)

Channel entry: liver and stomach channels.

Indications:

• Clears vacuity heat: Yīn vacuity with heatCHECK.
• Eliminates gān heat effusion: gān accumulation with heat effusion (malnutrition with fever).

Dosage & Method:

Oral: 3–10g in decoctions.

Warning:

Contraindicated in exterior contraction of wind-cold, as well as in blood vacuity with an absence of heat.

Quality:

Best are long roots that are pale brown on the surface and white on yellowing white on the cross section.

Product Area:

NX, Mongolia.