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. |