• Zhi Mu, Anemarrhena rhizome - 8 oz.
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Zhi Mu, Anemarrhena rhizome - 8 oz.

Zhi Mu, Anemarrhena rhizome - 8 oz.

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Anemarrhena Rhizome clears fire and nourishes the yin of the Lungs, Stomach, and Kidneys


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

  • Clears heat and drains fire: for high fever, irritability, thirst, and a rapid, flooding pulse in patterns of heat from excess in the Lungs and Stomach. Also for cough due to heat in the Lungs with expectoration of thick, yellow sputum.*
  • Enriches the yin and moistens dryness: for exhaustion or deficiency of Lung and Kidney yin with such heat signs as night sweats, steaming bone disorder, irritability, afternoon or low-grade fevers, heat in the five centers, and bleeding gums. Also for such Kidney heat signs as spermatorrhea, nocturnal emissions, and abnormally elevated sex drive.*
  • Generates fluids and clears heat: for oral ulcers and inflammation due to yin deficiency, and for wasting and thirsting disorder.*
  • Ameliorates the dryness of tonifying or warming substances: for circumstances when tonifying herbs, such as Astragali Radix (huang qi), or warming herbs, such as Cinnamomi Ramulus (gui zhi) and Aconiti Radix lateralis preparata (zhi fu zi), are used, but there is concern that they not be too drying.*

English Name: Anemarrhena Rhizome; Anemarrhena aspheloides
Chinese Name: Zhi Mu
Unit Size: 8 oz
Potency: 8:1
Taste: Bitter, Sweet - Bensky
Properties: Cold - Bensky
Channels Entered: Lung, Stomach, Kidney - Bensky
Actions: Clears fire and nourishes the yin of the Lungs, Stomach, and Kidneys
Pattern: Heat, Fire; Lung and Kidney deficiency; Yin deficiency - Bensky
Chinese Symptomology: High fever, irritability, thirst; Cough with expectoration of thick and yellow sputum; Exhaustion, night sweats, steaming bone disorder, afternoon fever, low-grade fever, heat in the five centers, bleeding gums; spermatorrhea, nocturnal emissions, abnormally elevated sex drive; Oral ulcers; inflammation, wasting and thirsting disorder - Bensky
Materia Medica: Clear Heat - Drain Fire
Contraindications: Contraindicated in cases of cold from deficiency of the Spleen and Stomach, or diarrhea. - Bensky


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Anemarrhena Rhizome (Zhi Mu)

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