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Latin pharmacognostic name: Cera

Alternate English names: Chinese bee's wax

Kingdom: Animal

Origin (other sources): Apis cerana Fabricius

Use: Medicinal

Category:

Properties: Sweet and bland; balanced; nontoxic*.

Channel entry: Spleen, stomach, and large intestine channels.

Indications:

Resolves toxin, engenders flesh, and relieves pain. Also used as a binding agent in making pills.

acute heart pain; dysentery with pus and blood in the stool; incessant diarrhea; pain in the fetus with bleeding; sores and welling-abscesses (yōng) failing to heal and attacking the inner body; burns and scalds.

See also: Chóng bái là (虫白蜡 Cera Chinensis , Chinese wax); Fēng là (蜂蜡 Cera Flava , bee's wax)

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