Dan Zhu Ye
淡竹葉 dàn zhú yè, "bland bamboo leaves"

Category:

Clear Heat

Is this Herb effective in the clinic?

Pinyin Pronunciation:

	Tastes: Sweet , Bland		Dosage: 6-9g

	Cautions: None noted		Meridians: Heart , Stomach , Small Intestine
	Preparation: No preparation data at this time		Quality: Good quality - big green leaves with few stalks, and without roots or spikes
	Reference Source: Chinese Herbal Medicine: Materia Medica (3rd edition) ('Bensky')		Notes: No notes at this time
	Formulas (11) dǎo chì sǎn (Guide Out the Red powder) liáng gé sǎn (Cool the Diaphragm Powder) qīng shǔ yì qì tāng (Clear Summer-heat and Augment the Qi Decoction) qīng wēn bài dù yǐn (Clear Epidemics and Overcome Toxin Decoction) qīng yíng tāng (Clear the Nutritive Level Decoction) sān rén tāng (Three Nut Decoction) xiǎo jì yǐn zǐ (Cephalanoplos Decoction) xuān dú fā biǎo tāng (Dissipate Toxin and Release Exterior Decoction) yín qiáo sǎn (Honeysuckle and Forsythia powder) yín qiáo tāng (Honeysuckle and Forsythia Decoction) zhú yè shí gāo tāng (Lophatherus and Gypsum Decoction)

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Alternate Names:

Pharmaceutical: Herba Lophatheri Gracilis

Botanical: Lophaterum Gracile Brongn.

Japanese: tanchikuyō

Korean: damjukyeop

Common: lophatherum stem and leaves

Temperature: Cold

	+1 Mellissa Rudder (Rootdown Staff) Clears heat add comment

	+1 Andrea Murchison (Rootdown Editor) Promotes urination and clears damp-heat add comment

	0 Rootdown Staff (Rootdown Staff) Eliminates irritability add comment

	+1 Mellissa Rudder (Rootdown Staff) Irritability add comment

	+1 Mellissa Rudder (Rootdown Staff) Mouth sores add comment

	+1 Mellissa Rudder (Rootdown Staff) Painful gums add comment

	+1 Mellissa Rudder (Rootdown Staff) Rough, scanty painful urination add comment

	+1 Mellissa Rudder (Rootdown Staff) Heat in the Small Intestine add comment

	+1 Mellissa Rudder (Rootdown Staff) Dark red tip on the tongue add comment

	+1 Tamara Gavin Cystitis - inflammation of the bladder - burning urine and pain, add the watermelon rind ( (西瓜, western melon) Xi Gua) and sheets of white bamboo ( (竹葉 , Bamboo Leaves) Zhu Ye ) + sheet of mulberry ( (桑葉, ) Sang Ye) - ½ hours after, the urine comes out normal. add comment

Dan Zhu Ye淡竹葉 dàn zhú yè, "bland bamboo leaves"