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Pin Yin: di gu pi
Common name: wolfberry bark
Botanical family: Solanaceae
Botanical name: 1, Lycium chinensis Mill.; 2, L. barbarum L.
Primary action: Cool Blood
Secondary actions:
Supplement Yin
Temperature: cold
Taste: sweet
Entering Channel: Lu, Kd
Actions:
Relieves Vacuity-type Heat or Fire with sweating; relieves Steaming
Bone Pattern with sweating.
Clears Heat and Cools Blood.
Clears Vacuity Heat in the Lungs with cough and wheezing.
(See
Vacuity Fire
;
Blood Heat
;
Lung Yin Vacuity
.)
Indications: nightsweats, five heart heat, cough,
nosebleed, vexation, thirst
Dosage:
2-5 qian.
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