| Pharmaceutical Name: |
Cortex Lycii |
| Botanical Name: |
Lycium chinensis Mill.
Lycium barbarum L. |
| Common Name: |
Wolfberry Bark
Lycium Bark |
| Source of Earliest Record: |
Shennong Bencao Jing |
| Part Used & Method for Pharmaceutical Preparations: |
The roots are dug in spring or autumn. The bark is peeled off the roots, dried in the sun and cut into pieces. |
| Properties and Taste: |
Sweet or tasteless and cold |
| Meridian: |
Lung and kidney |
| Functions: |
To cool blood
To clear heat in the lungs |
| Indications and Combinations: |
1. Heat in the blood and deficient yin manifested as afternoon fever and night sweating.
*Use with Anemarrhena rhizome (Zhimu) and Turtle shell (Biejia).
2. Heat in the lungs and deficient yin manifested as cough, asthma and cough with blood.
*Use with Imperata rhizome (Baimaogen) and Biota tops (Cebaiye) .
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| Dosage: |
6-15 g |
| Cautions: |
This herb is contraindicated in cases with fever due to common cold or weakness of the spleen accompanied by diarrhea. |
