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Huang Lian (Coptis Rhizome)

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Cold Huang Lian (Rhizoma Coptidis)
Channels:
HT, LI, LIV, ST
Properties:
Bitter, Cold
Latin:
Rhizoma Coptidis
Chinese:
黄连
Tone Marks:
huáng lián
Translation:
Yellow Links

Actions

  • Drains Fire and Relieves Toxins
    For fire symptoms such as high fever, irritability, delirium, red tongue, and full and rapid pulse. Also for heat with toxicity causing painful red eyes, sore throat, and for toxic skin lesions.
  • Drains Dampness and Clears Heat
    For Damp-Heat in the stomach with vomiting or acid regurgitation, or stomach fire with bad breath and belching with a foul smell, and for Damp-Heat in the intestines with diarrhea or dysentery.
  • Calms Heart Fire
    For insomnia due to the Heart and Kidneys miscommunication.
  • Clears Heat, Stops Bleeding
    For epistaxis, Blood in the stool, urine, or vomit.
  • Used topically to clear heat in the eyes, tongue, and mouth.

Contraindications and Cautions

  • Caution in cases of Yin or blood deficiency, stomach cold, or diarrhea from spleen and kidney deficiency. Long term use may injure the spleen and stomach. Some traditional sources say this herb should not be taken with pork, and may antagonize Radix Scrophulariae Ningpoensis (xuan shen), Flos Chrysanthemi Morifolii (ju hua), Bombyx Batryticatus (jiang can), Cortex Dictamni Dasycarpi Radicis (bai xian pi), and Radix Achyranthis Bidentatae, (niu xi).

Herb-Drug Interactions

  • This section is being researched, and is not completed.

Toxicity and Overdose

  • This section is being researched, and is not completed.

Dosage

  • 1.5-9 grams.

Notes

  • Dry-fried to enhance the cooling properties and to allow entrance into the blood, use with ginger to treat stomach heat, use with salt to clear heat in the large intestine and bladder, and can be used topically as a powder.

This Herb Appears in the Following Formulas:


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Life sci. 2005 jul 15;77(9):991-1002. epub 2005 apr 20.

<b>links molecular dissection of a medicinal herb with anti-tumor activity by oligonucleotide microarray.</b>
hara a, iizuka n, hamamoto y, uchimura s, miyamoto t, tsunedomi r, miyamoto k, hazama s, okita k, oka m. yamaguchi university school of medicine, 1-1-1 minami-kogushi, ube, yamaguchi 755-8505, japan.

it is difficult to understand precisely the physiological actions of herbs because they contain a complex array of constituent molecules. in the present study we used dna microarray data for 12600 genes to examine the anti-proliferative activity of the herb coptidis rhizoma and eight constituent molecules against eight human pancreatic cancer cell lines. we identified 27 genes showing strong correlation with the 50% inhibitory dose (id50) of c. rhizoma after 72-h exposure. hierarchical cluster analysis with correlation coefficients between expression levels of these 27 c. rhizoma-related genes and the id50 of each constituent molecule classified these test molecules into two clusters, one consisting of c. rhizoma and berberine and the other consisting of the remaining seven molecules. our results suggest that one molecule, berberine, can account for the majority of the anti-proliferative activity of c. rhizoma and that dna microarray analyses can be used to improve our understanding of the actions of an intact herb. pmid: 15964315.

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