Properties & Channels

Drug Interactions

Incompatible Herbs

Toxic or Endangered

Latin Name Notes

Herbs that Cool the Blood

Select an Herb Category... Warm, Spicy Herbs that Release the Exterior Cool, Spicy Herbs that Release the Exterior Herbs that Drain Fire Herbs that Cool the Blood Herbs that Clear Heat and Dry Dampness Herbs that Clear Heat and Eliminate Toxins Herbs that Clear and Relieve Summerheat Purgatives Moist Laxatives Harsh Expellants Herbs that Regulate Water and Drain Dampness Herbs that Dispel Wind-Dampness Herbs that Cool and Transform Phlegm-Heat Warm Herbs that Transform Phlegm-Cold Herbs that Relieve Coughing and Wheezing Aromatic Herbs that Transform and Dissolve Dampness Herbs that Relieve Food Stagnation Herbs that Regulate the Qi Herbs that Stop Bleeding Herbs that Invigorate Blood and Remove Stagnation Herbs that Warm the Interior and Expel Cold Herbs that Tonify Qi Herbs that Tonify Blood Herbs that Tonify Yang Herbs that Tonify Yin Herbs that Astringe, Stabilize, Bind Substances that Anchor, Settle, and Calm the Spirit Herbs that Nourish the Heart and Calm the Spirit Aromatic Substances that Open the Orifices Substances that Extinguish Wind and Stop Tremors Herbs that Expel Parasites Substances for External Application Herbs that Expel Phlegm by Inducing Vomiting Uncategorized Herbs

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• Bai Wei (Swallowwort Root)
  Latin: Radix Cynanchi Atrati
  Properties: Bitter, Salty, Cold
  Channels: LU, ST, KI
  
• Chi Shao (Red Peony Root)
  Latin: Radix Rubrus Paeoniae Lactiflorae
  Properties: Sour, Bitter, Slightly Cold
  Channels: LIV, SP
  
• Di Gu Pi (Cortex of Wolfberry Root or Lycium Bark)
  Latin: Cortex Radicis Lycii Chinensis
  Properties: Sweet, Cold
  Channels: LU, LIV, KI
  
• Dong Qing Ye (Ilex)
  Latin: Folium Ilexis
  Properties: Bitter, Astringent, Cold
  Channels: LU, HT
  
• Mu Dan Pi (Cortex of the Peony Tree Root)
  Latin: Cortex Radicis Moutan
  Properties: Spicy, Bitter, Cool
  Channels: HT, LIV, KI
  
• Sheng Di Huang (Chinese Foxglove Root, Rehmannia)
  Latin: Radix Rehmanniae Glutinosae
  Properties: Sweet, Bitter, Cold
  Channels: HT, KI, LIV
  
• Xi Jiao (Rhinoceros Horn)
  Latin: Cornu Rhinoceri
  Properties: Bitter, Salty, Cold
  Channels: HT, LIV, ST
  
• Xiao Ji (Small Thistle)
  Latin: Cephalanoplos
  Properties: Sweet, Cool
  Channels: LIV, SP
  
• Xuan Shen (Ningpo Figwort Root)
  Latin: Radix Scrophulariae Ningpoensis
  Properties: Salty, Sweet, Bitter, Cold
  Channels: KI, LU, ST
  
• Yin Chai Hu (Stellaria Root)
  Latin: Radix Stellariae Dichotomae
  Properties: Sweet, Cool
  Channels: LIV, ST
  
• Zi Cao (Groomwell Root or Arnebia or Lithospermum)
  Latin: Radix Arnebiae seu Lithospermi
  Properties: Sweet, Cold
  Channels: HT, LIV