Traditional Chinese Medicine/Sheng Di Huang

Name Means:

• Sheng-Fresh
• Di-Earth or soil
• Huang-Yellow

English Name:

• rehmannia root
• Chinese foxglove root

Latin Name:

• Radix Rehmanniae Glutinosae

Chinese Name:

• 生地黄 (Simplified Chinese)
• 生地黃 (Traditional Chinese)

Chinese Pinyin: shēng dì huáng

Taste & Temperature:

• Gan-Sweet
• Ku-Bitter
• Han-Cold

Channels:

• Hand Shao Yin of Heart
• Foot Jue Yin of Liver
• Foot Shao Yin of Kidney

Actions & Indications:

• Clear Heat & Cool Blood, for Heat in Blood level
• nourish Yin
• nourish Yin/Blood and generates fluids
• used for wasting and thirsting disorder
• cool upward blazing Heart Fire

Contraindications:

• Spleen/Stomach deficiency with diarrhea
• Spleen deficiency with Damp
• Yang deficiency
• weak pregnant women with deficient Blood or deficient Spleen/Stomach
• should avoid onions, garlic, radishes

Dosage:

• 3-10 qian (9-30 grams)

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