Dan Shen
丹蔘 dān shēn, "cinnabar root, red root"

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Is this Herb effective in the clinic?

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	Tastes: Bitter		Dosage: 6-15g

	Cautions: Contraindicated during pregnancy. Do not use in combination with Li Lu (Veratri nigri Radix et Rhizoma. See Toxicity. avoid use during Pregnancy		Meridians: Heart , Liver , Pericardium
	Preparation: No preparation data at this time		Quality: Consists of large, thick, purplish red, unfragmented roots with think bark and without root heads or fine hairy roots.
	Reference Source: Divine Husbandman's Classic of the Materia Medica		Notes: No notes at this time
	Formulas (8) dān shēn yǐn (Salvia Decoction ) dāng guī jī xùe téng tāng (Tangkuei and Jixueteng Decoction) dìng xián wán (Arrest Seizures Pill) huó luò xiào líng dān (Wonderfully Effective Pill to Invigorate the Collaterals) jiā wèi mài mén dōng tāng (Augmented Ophiopogonis Decoction) qīng yíng tāng (Clear the Nutritive Level Decoction) shēng tiě luò yǐn (Iron Filings Decoction) shū gān lǐ pí tāng (Spread the Liver and Regulate the Spleen Decoction)

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Alternate Names:

Pharmaceutical: Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae, Salviae miltiorrhizae Radix

Botanical: Salvia miltiorrhiza Bge.

Japanese: tanjin

Korean: dansam

Common: salvia root

Temperature: Slightly Cold

	+1 Aumkar Mahabodha to Heart yin xu (spontaneous sweating ... verbiage ....) add comment

	0 Rootdown Staff (Rootdown Staff) Breaks up Blood Stasis add comment

	0 Rootdown Staff (Rootdown Staff) Clears Heat and Soothe irritability. add comment

	+1 Benjamin Satterfield (Rootdown Staff) Fever add comment

	+1 Laura Drago Insomnia due to heat entering the nutritive and blood levels or insufficient Heart blood add comment

	+1 Laura Drago Early stage breast abscess add comment

Dan Shen丹蔘 dān shēn, "cinnabar root, red root"