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Zhi Zi
梔子 (栀子)
zhī zǐ
Category:
Clear Heat
Clear Heat and Drain Fire
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Alternate Names:
Name
Pin Yin
Chinese
Translated
Chao Shan Zhi
chǎo shān zhī
炒山梔
Shan Zhi Zi
shān zhī zǐ
山枝子
Tastes:
Bitter
Dosage:
6-9g
Cautions:
Contraindicated in those with Cold from Deficiency of the Spleen and Stomach with reduced appetite and loose stools
Meridians:
Lung
,
Heart
,
Liver
,
Stomach
,
San Jiao (Triple Burner)
Preparation:
• Unprepared • Kernels • Peels • Dry-fried • Charred
Quality:
Good quality - reddish-yellow, full fruits with thin pericarpium
Reference Source:
Chinese Herbal Medicine: Materia Medica (3rd edition) ('Bensky')
Notes:
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Formulas
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ān gōng niú huáng wán (Calm the Palace with Cattle Gallstone Pill )
bā zhèng sǎn (Eight Herb Powder for Rectification)
chái hú qīng gān tāng (Bupleurum Decoction to Clear the Liver)
chú shī weì líng tāng (Eliminate Dampness Decoction by Combining Calm the Stomach and Five-Ingredient Powder with Poria)
dāng guī lóng huì wán (Tangkuei, Gentiana Longdancao, and Aloe Pill)
dì yú sǎn (Sanguisorba Powder)
fáng fēng tōng shèng sǎn (Ledebouriella Powder that Sagely Unblocks)
guā loú zhǐ shǐ tāng (Trichosanthes Fruit and Immature Bitter Orange Decoction)
huáng lián jiě dú tāng (Coptis Decoction to Relieve Toxicity)
jiā wèi wǔ lín sǎn (Augmented Five-Ingredient Powder for Painful Urinary Dysfunction)
jiā wèi xiāo yáo sǎn
jú hé wán (Tangerine Seed Pill )
ké xuè fāng (Coughing of Blood Formula)
lián pò yǐn (Coptis and Magnolia Bark Decoction)
lóng dǎn xiè gān tāng (Gentiana Long Gan Cao Decoction to Drain the Liver)
nèi shū huáng lián tāng (Internal Dispersing Decoction with Coptis)
níng xuè tāng (Quiet the Blood Decoction)
niú huáng qīng xīn wán (Cattle Gallstone Pill to Clear the Heart)
niú huáng shàng qīng wán (Cattle Gallstone Pill to Ascend and Clear)
qīng dǎn xiè huǒ tāng (Clear the Gallbladder and Drain Fire Decoction)
qīng rè zhǐ bēng tāng (Clear Heat and Stop Excessive Uterine Bleeding Dec)
qīng wēn bài dù yǐn (Clear Epidemics and Overcome Toxin Decoction)
qīng xīn liáng gé sǎn (Clear the Heart and Cool the Diaphragm Powder)
qū fēng zhì bǎo dān (Greatest Treasure Special Pill to Dispel Wind)
sān huáng shí gāo tāng (Three-Yellows and Gypsum Decoction)
sāng xìng tāng (Mulberry Leaf and Apricot Kernel Decoction)
shí gaō tāng (Gypsum Decoction)
shí huī sǎn (Ten Partially-Charred Substances Powder )
tiān má gōu téng yǐn (Gastrodia and Uncaria Decoction)
wēn qīng yǐn (Warming and Clearing Decoction)
wǔ lín sǎn (Five-Ingredient Powder for Painful Urinary Dysfunction)
xiǎo jì yǐn zǐ (Cephalanoplos Decoction)
xiè huáng sǎn (Drain the Yellow Powder)
xiè qīng wán (Drain the Green Pill )
xuān bì tāng (Disband Painful Obstruction Decoction)
yīn chén hāo tāng ( Artemisia Yinchenhao Decoction)
yùe jū wán (Escape Restraint Pill)
zhǐ shí zhī zǐ chǐ tāng (Bitter Orange, Gardenia, and Prepared Soybean Decoction)
zhī zǐ bái pí tāng (Gardenia and Phellodendron Decoction)
zhī zǐ dà huáng tāng (Gardenia and Rhubarb Decoction)
zhī zǐ dòu chǐ tāng (Gardenia and Prepared Soybean Decoction)
zhī zǐ gān cǎo chǐ tāng (Gardenia, Licorice, and Prepared Soybean Decoction)
zhī zǐ hòu pò tāng (Gardenia and Magnolia Bark Decoction)
zhī zǐ shēng jiāng chǐ tāng (Gardenia, Fresh Ginger, and Prepared Soybean Decoction)
Family:
Rubiaceae
Alternate Names:
Pharmaceutical:
Gardeniae Fructus
Botanical:
Gardenia Jasminoides Ellis
Japanese:
shishi
Korean:
chija
Common:
cape jasmine fruit, gardenia
Temperature:
Cold
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Rootdown Staff
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Cools Blood and Stops bleeding.
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Reduces swelling and Moves blood stasis
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Resolves toxicity
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Drains damp heat
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Clears heat and eliminates irritability
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Heat patterns with fever
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Restlessness
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Stifling sensation in the chest
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Insomnia
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Mellissa Rudder
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Delirious speech
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Painful urinary dribbling due to damp heat in the lower burner
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Mellissa Rudder
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Damp heat and constrained Liver and Gallbladder with jaundice
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Damp heat in the Gallbladder and Triple Burner channels of the face affecting the nose and eyes or causing sores in the mouth or facial region
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Mellissa Rudder
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Nosebleed
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Blood in the vomit
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Blood in the stool
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Blood in the urine
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Swelling or stasis (topical as a powder mixed with egg white or vinegar)
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Heat in the blood
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