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Bo He - Lab Tested, 1lb

Bo He - Lab Tested, 1lb

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Chinese Mint facilitates the dispersal of upper burner wind-heat, cools and clears the eyes and head, soothes the throat, facilitates the flow of Liver qi and expels turbid filth - Bensky


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

  • Disperses wind-heat, clears and benefits the head, eyes, and throat: for patterns of wind-heat with fever, cough, headache, red eyes, and sore throat.*
  • Vents rashes: used in the early stages of rashes (such as measles) to induce the rash to come to the surface as a means of venting the wind and heat and thereby speed recovery.*
  • Allows constrained Liver qi to flow freely: for constrained Liver qi with such symptoms as pressure in the chest or flanks, emotional instability, and gynecological problems.*
  • Expels turbid filth: for problems such as summertime exposure to unclean qi leading to summerheat gastric disturbance (sha zhang), with abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, and a thick, greasy, yellow tongue coating.*

English Name: Chinese Field Mint
Chinese Name: Bo He
Unit Size: 1 pound
Taste: Acrid, aromatic - Bensky
Properties: Cool - Bensky
Channels Entered: Lung, Liver - Bensky
Actions: Facilitates the dispersal of upper burner wind-heat, cools and clears the eyes and head, soothes the throat, facilitates the flow of Liver qi and expels turbid filth - Bensky
Pattern: Wind-heat; Rashes; Constrained Liver qi; Summertime gastric disturbance - Bensky
Chinese Symptomology: Fever, cough, headache, red eyes, sore throat; rashes; pressure in the chest or flanks, emotional instability, and gynecological problems due to constrained Liver qi; abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea due to summerheat gastric disturbance - Bensky
Materia Medica: Release the Exterior
Contraindications: This herb can deplete the qi and should not be used in debilitated patients who sweat profusely or in those with ascendant Liver yang - Bensky


Ingredients

Bo He - Menthae haplocalycis Herba

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