✵The TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) herbalism is also known as pharmaceutics of Traditional Chinese Medicine, or Chinese pharmaceutics, is the branch of health science dealing with the preparation, dispensing, and proper utilization of Chinese herbs. It is majorly composed of Introduction of Chinese Medicinals, Classification of Chinese Herbs, Formulas, and Patent medicines.
Classifications of Herbs:Herbs Clearing Heat and Cooling the Blood.
Introduction: Herbs Clearing Heat and Cooling the Blood: an agent or substance herbs that has the effect of eliminating pathological heat from the nutrient and blood systems in cases of warm diseases marked by fever accompanied by delirium, eruptions and bleeding symptoms, and also in other diseases with bleeding due to heat in the blood.
Heat-clearing herbs mostly are cold and cool in property, a few are neutral and cool in nature, mostly are bitter in flavor, some are sweet, pungent or salty, has functions clearing heat, purging fire, cooling blood, detoxifying heat-pathogen, relieving asthenic heat, drying dampness, removing dampness, nourishing Yin, relieving exterior, etc., and these herbs are mainly used for various syndromes of interior-heat. Clearing-heat herbs are classified into several kinds: ①.heat-clearing and fire-purging herbs, ②.heat-clearing and dampness-drying herbs, ③.heat-clearing and counteracting-toxins herbs, ④.heat-clearing and blood-cooling herbs, and ⑤.asthenic heat-clearing herbs, etc.
Heat-clearing and blood-cooling herbs mostly are cold, slight cold, or cool in property, sweet and bitter, or bitter and salty in flavor, have functions dispelling pathogenic heat in blood-phase and Ying-phase, and these herbs are mainly used for various excess-heat syndromes of Ying-phase and blood-phase, invasion of Ying and blood systems by heat in warm disease and febrile disease, blood-heat bleeding (macular eruption, coma and delirious speech), and bleeding syndrome due to other diseases; some herbs of this kind have functions Yin nourishing property, and are often used for yin asthenia generating interior heat, etc. Representative herbs of this kind are Radix Rehmanniae (Dì Huánɡ), Radix Paeoniae Rubra (Chì Sháo), and other herbs including Cortex Moutan (Mǔ Dān Pí), Radix Scrophulariae (Xuán Shēn), Radix Arnebiae seu Lithospermi (Zǐ Cǎo), etc.
✵Till January 1st, 2024, there are totally [6] kinds of common TCM herbs, [11] kinds of related plant species, are recorded in this category.These Herbs Clearing Heat and Cooling the Blood are briefly introduced separately:
Radix Rehmanniae (Rehmannia Root).
Brief Introduction: The herb Radix Rehmanniae is the fresh or dried tuberous root of Rehmannia glutinosa Libosch., or Rehmannia glutinosa Libosch.f.hueichingensis Hsiao (family Scrophulariaceae), used to clear heat, cool blood, nourish Yin and promote fluid production for the treatment of febrile diseases at the nutrient and blood stages, bleeding due to blood heat, and thirst in cases of diabetes. The herb is commonly known as Radix Rehmanniae, Rehmannia Root, Dì Huánɡ.
Radix Paeoniae Rubra (Red Peony Root).
Brief Introduction: The herb Radix Paeoniae Rubra is the dried root of Paeonia lactiflora Pall., or Paeonia veitchii Lynch (family Ranunculaceae), used to remove stagnated blood and dispel heat from the blood for the treatment of epidemic febrile diseases with eruptions, pain due to blood stasis, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, traumatic injuries, boils and sores. The herb is commonly known as Radix Paeoniae Rubra, Red Peony Root, Chì Sháo.
Cortex Moutan (Tree Peony Bark).
Brief Introduction: The herb Cortex Moutan is the dried root-bark of Paeonia suffruticosa Andr (family Ranunculaceae), used (1).to clear heat and cool the blood for the treatment of febrile diseases with eruptions and bleeding, and (2).to activate blood and eliminate stasis for treating amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, traumatic injuries, boils, sores and appendicitis. The herb is commonly known as Cortex Moutan, Tree Peony Bark, Mǔ Dān Pí.
Radix Scrophulariae (Figwort Root).
Brief Introduction: The herb Radix Scrophulariae is the dried root of Scrophularia ningpoensis Hemsl., or Scrophularia buergeriana Miq (family Scrophulariaceae), used to clear heat, cool the blood, replenish Yin and counteract toxins for the treatment of warm diseases at the nutrient level with high fever and delirium or skin eruption, also for treating inflammation of the throat, boils and sores. The herb is commonly known as Radix Scrophulariae, Figwort Root, Xuán Shēn.
Radix Arnebiae seu Lithospermi (Arnebia Root or Gromwell Root).
Brief Introduction: The herb Radix Arnebiae seu Lithospermi is the dried root of Arnebia euchroma (Royle) Johnst, or Lithospermum erythrorhizon Sieb.et Zucc (family Boraginaceae), used for promoting eruption in cases of measles, and externally for treating burns, frostbite, dermatitis and eczema. The herb is commonly known as Radix Arnebiae seu Lithospermi, Arnebia Root, Gromwell Root, Zǐ Cǎo.
✵The TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) herbalism is also known as pharmaceutics of Traditional Chinese Medicine, or Chinese pharmaceutics, is the branch of health science dealing with the preparation, dispensing, and proper utilization of Chinese herbs. It is majorly composed of Introduction of Chinese Medicinals, Classification of Chinese Herbs, Formulas, and Patent medicines.
Introduction: Herbs Clearing Heat and Cooling the Blood: an agent or substance herbs that has the effect of eliminating pathological heat from the nutrient and blood systems in cases of warm diseases marked by fever accompanied by delirium, eruptions and bleeding symptoms, and also in other diseases with bleeding due to heat in the blood.
Brief Introduction: The herb Radix Rehmanniae is the fresh or dried tuberous root of Rehmannia glutinosa Libosch., or Rehmannia glutinosa Libosch.f.hueichingensis Hsiao (family Scrophulariaceae), used to clear heat, cool blood, nourish Yin and promote fluid production for the treatment of febrile diseases at the nutrient and blood stages, bleeding due to blood heat, and thirst in cases of diabetes. The herb is commonly known as Radix Rehmanniae, Rehmannia Root, Dì Huánɡ.
Brief Introduction: The herb Radix Paeoniae Rubra is the dried root of Paeonia lactiflora Pall., or Paeonia veitchii Lynch (family Ranunculaceae), used to remove stagnated blood and dispel heat from the blood for the treatment of epidemic febrile diseases with eruptions, pain due to blood stasis, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, traumatic injuries, boils and sores. The herb is commonly known as Radix Paeoniae Rubra, Red Peony Root, Chì Sháo.
Brief Introduction: The herb Cortex Moutan is the dried root-bark of Paeonia suffruticosa Andr (family Ranunculaceae), used (1).to clear heat and cool the blood for the treatment of febrile diseases with eruptions and bleeding, and (2).to activate blood and eliminate stasis for treating amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, traumatic injuries, boils, sores and appendicitis. The herb is commonly known as Cortex Moutan, Tree Peony Bark, Mǔ Dān Pí.
Brief Introduction: The herb Radix Scrophulariae is the dried root of Scrophularia ningpoensis Hemsl., or Scrophularia buergeriana Miq (family Scrophulariaceae), used to clear heat, cool the blood, replenish Yin and counteract toxins for the treatment of warm diseases at the nutrient level with high fever and delirium or skin eruption, also for treating inflammation of the throat, boils and sores. The herb is commonly known as Radix Scrophulariae, Figwort Root, Xuán Shēn.
Brief Introduction: The herb Radix Arnebiae seu Lithospermi is the dried root of Arnebia euchroma (Royle) Johnst, or Lithospermum erythrorhizon Sieb.et Zucc (family Boraginaceae), used for promoting eruption in cases of measles, and externally for treating burns, frostbite, dermatitis and eczema. The herb is commonly known as Radix Arnebiae seu Lithospermi, Arnebia Root, Gromwell Root, Zǐ Cǎo.