Wiseman’s Chinese Medical Database

fú lóng gān / 伏龙肝 / 伏龍肝 / oven earth

Latin pharmacognostic name: Terra Flava Usta

Alternate English names:

Alternate Chinese names: 釜下土 fǔ xià tǔ; 釜月下土 fǔ yuè xià tǔ; 灶心土 zào xīn tǔ; 灶中黄土 zào zhōng huáng tǔ; 灶心黄土 zào xīn huáng tǔ

Origin: Plant

Use: medicinal

Category: Interior-warming agents

Properties: Acrid; warm.

Channel entry: spleen and stomach channels.

Indications:

• Warms the center and stanches bleeding: vomiting of blood (blood ejection), bloody stool, bloody urine, or flooding and spotting due to vacuity cold.
• Checks vomiting: Vomiting and retching due to center vacuity cold; malign obstruction (morning sickness).
• Checks diarrhea: Enduring diarrhea due to spleen vacuity; vaginal discharge.
• Applied topically for shank sores and swollen welling-abscesses (yōng zhǒng).

  Dosage & Method:

  Oral: Decoct (15–30g or up to 120g, cloth-wrapped) or use in powders; drink as tea. Topical: Grind and apply mixed.

  Warning:

  Not suitable for yīn vacuity bleeding or heat pattern vomiting or stomach reflux.