Pin Yin: tu fu ling
Common name: greenbriar rhizome
Botanical family: Liliaceae
Botanical name: Smilax glabra Roxb.
Primary action: Clear Heat Toxins
Secondary actions:
Clear Heat, Dry Dampness
Temperature: neutral
Taste: bland or slightly sweet
Entering Channel: Lv, St, Kd
Actions:
Clears Damp Heat Poison: painful and cloudy urine, joint pain, or Damp
Heat jaundice.
Clears Damp Heat from the skin.
(See
Heat Toxin
;
Spleen Stomach Damp Heat
;
Damp Heat of Gall Bladder
and Liver
;
Exterior Dampness
.)
Indications: strangury, sores, convulsions, swollen
and painful joints, goiter, vaginal discharges, itchy skin, oozing
rashes
Dosage:
5-20 qian.
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