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Xuan Shen, 1lb

Xuan Shen, 1lb

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Scrophularia Root enriches the yin, moistens dryness, drains fire, resolves toxicity, softens hardness, transforms phlegm-heat.


Excerpted from Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

  • Clears heat and cools the blood: when heat has entered the blood level of warm-heat pathogen diseases, causing bleeding, fever, dry mouth, and a purplish tongue, as in Clear the Nutritive Level Decoction.*
  • Nourishes the yin: especially for the sequelae of warm-heat pathogen diseases with such symptoms as constipation and irritability.*
  • Softens hardness and dissipates nodules: for neck lumps due to phlegm-fire as well as severe throat pain and swelling.*

English Name: Scrophularia Root, Scrophularia ningpoensis
Unit Size: 1 pound
Potency: 1:1
Taste: Salty, sweet, bitter - Bensky
Properties: Cold - Bensky
Channels Entered: Kidney, Lung, Stomach - Bensky
Actions: Enriches the yin, moistens dryness, drains fire, resolves toxicity, softens hardness, transforms phlegm-heat.
Pattern: Heat, blood heat, phlgem-fire - Bensky
Chinese Symptomology: Bleeding, fever, dry mouth, purplish tongue; Constipation, irritability; Neck lumps, severe thoat pain, throat swelling - Bensky
Materia Medica: Clear Heat - Drain Fire
Contraindications: Contraindicated in cases of cold-dampness of the Spleen and Stomach. Traditionally, it is not to be combined with Veratri nigri Radix et Rhizoma (li ba) - Bensky

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