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Bei Sha Shen (Northern), 1lb
Bei Sha Shen (Northern), 1lb
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Glehnia nourishes the Lung yin and clears heat; Nourishes the Stomach yin and generates fluids.
Glehniae Radix (bei sha shen) is heavy, firm in texture, sweet, cooling, and rather greasy. It tends to clear Lung heat, nourish Lung yin, and generate Stomach fluids so that it can be used for fire blazing from yin deficiency, cough with little phlegm, steaming bones consumptive heat, or injured fluids in the aftermath of a warm or febrile disorder. However, because it is rather greasy, it is inappropriate for use with an externally-contracted pathogen. (from Bensky - Chinese Herbal Materia Medica, 3rd ed.)*
English Name: Glehnia
Unit Size: 1 pound
Potency: 1:1
Taste: Sweet, slightly bitter
Properties: Slightly cold
Channels Entered: Lungs, Stomach
Actions: Nourishes the Lung yin and clears heat; Nourishes the Stomach yin and generates fluids.
Pattern: Yin deficiency, Lung heat, Stomach yin deficiency
Chinese Symptomology: Dry, non-productive cough from heat injuring the Lung yin marked by a dry mouth and thirst; Dry and parched mouth, thirst, and irritability; Pathogenic heat, such as that of a warm pathogen disease injuring the Stomach yin.
Materia Medica: Tonify Yin
Contraindications: Contraindicated for coughs due to wind-cold or in cases of cold from deficiency of the Lungs and Stomach.
Ingredients
Glehnia littoralis; Radix
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