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Ma Chi Xian, 1lb
Ma Chi Xian, 1lb
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Portulaca clears heat, resolves toxicity, eases the Intestines.
Excerpted from Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.
- Resolves fire toxicity and cools the blood: for damp-heat or fire toxin dysenteric disorders. Also for bloody or hot painful urinary dribbling. At present, primarily used for bacillary dysentery with incomplete bowel movements.*
- Clears damp-heat and treats sores: primarily for fire toxin carbuncles or sores, as well as red-and-white vaginal discharge. For these purposes it is applied topically and taken internally. Often the fresh herb is used.*
- Also used as an antidote for the pain and swelling of wasp stings and snakebite.*
- Stops bleeding and unblocks painful urinary dribbling: for uterine bleeding (especially postpartum), painful bloody urinary dribbling, and hot painful urinary dribbling.*
English Name: Purslane, Portulaca oleracea
Unit Size: 1 pound
Potency: 1:1
Taste: Sour - Bensky
Properties: Cold, slippery - Bensky
Channels Entered: Large Intestine, Liver - Bensky
Actions: Clears heat, resolves toxicity, eases the Intestines.
Pattern: Fire toxicity, heat in the blood, damp-heat, insect stings and snakebite - Bensky
Chinese Symptomology: Bloody urinary dribbling, hot urinary dribbling; Carbuncles, sores, red and white vaginal discharge; Wasp stings, Snakebite - Bensky
Materia Medica: Clear Heat - Resolve Toxicity
Contraindications: Pregnancy - Bensky
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