Sheng Di Huang
生地黃 shēng dì huáng, "unprepared earth yellow"

Category:

Clear Heat

Clear Heat and Cool Blood

Is this Herb effective in the clinic?

Pinyin Pronunciation:

	Tastes: Sweet , Bitter		Dosage: 9-15g

	Cautions: Contraindicated in Spleen Deficiency with Dampness, or in those with loose stools and abdominal fullness		Meridians: Heart , Liver , Kidney
	Preparation: • Big • Small • Fresh • Wild-crafted • Dry-fried • Charred • Wine-fried		Quality: Good quality - large, thick, heavy (top quality: less than 16 roots per kilogram), and fat roots with a thin outer bark, soft texture, and a black, shiny cross section
	Reference Source: Chinese Herbal Medicine: Materia Medica (3rd edition) ('Bensky')		Notes: No notes at this time
	Formulas (61) jiā jiǎn shēng mài sǎn (Modified Generate the Pulse Powder) bǎi hé gù jīn tāng (Lily Bulb Decoction to Preserve the Metal) chái hú qīng gān tāng (Bupleurum Decoction to Clear the Liver) cōng bái qī wèi yǐn (Scallion Decoction with Seven Ingredients) dà dìng fēng zhū (Major Arrest Wind Pearl) dà huáng zhě chóng wán (Rhubarb and Eupolnhagea pill ) dà qiāng huó tāng (Major Notopterygium Decoction) dà qín jiāo tāng (Major Gentiana Qinjiao Decoction) dà zào wán (Great Creation Pill) dāng guī liù huáng tāng (Tangkuei and Six-yellow Decoction) dǎo chì sǎn (Guide Out the Red powder) dú huó jì shēng tāng (Angelica Pubescens and Sang-Ji-Sheng Decoction) ē jiāo jī zǐ huáng tāng (Ass-Hide Gelatin and Egg Yolk Decoction) gān lù yǐn (Sweet Dew Decoction) hēi xiāo yáo sǎn (Black Rambling Powder) huáng tǔ tāng (Yellow Earth Decoction) jiā jiǎn fù mài tāng (Modified Restore the Pulse Decoction) jiā wèi wǔ lín sǎn (Augmented Five-Ingredient Powder for Painful Urinary Dysfunction) jiàn líng tāng (Construct Roof Tiles Decoction) jiāo ài tāng (Ass-Hide Gelatin and Mugwort Decoction) jīn guì shèn qì wán (Kd Qi Pill from the Golden Cabinet) jīn shuǐ liù jūn jiān (Six-Gentleman of Metal and Water Decoction) jiǔ wèi qiāng huó tāng (Nine-herb Decoction with Notopterygium) Jiǔ wèi qiāng huó tāng (Nine-Herb Decoction with Notopterygium from the Analytic Collection) líng jiǎo gōu téng tāng (Antelope Horn and Unicaria Decoction) lóng dǎn xiè gān tāng (Gentiana Long Gan Cao Decoction to Drain the Liver) míng mù dì huáng wán (Improve Vision Pill with Rehmannia) níng xuè tāng (Quiet the Blood Decoction) qín lián sì wù tāng (Four-Substance Decoction with Scutellaria and Coptis) qīng jīng zhǐ xuè tāng (Cool the Menses and Stop Bleeding Decoction) qīng rè zhǐ bēng tāng (Clear Heat and Stop Excessive Uterine Bleeding Dec) qīng wèi sǎn (Clear the Stomach powder) qīng wèi tāng (Clear the Stomach Decoction) qīng wēn bài dù yǐn (Clear Epidemics and Overcome Toxin Decoction) qīng yíng tāng (Clear the Nutritive Level Decoction) rén shēn huáng qí sǎn (Ginseng and Astragalus Powder) rùn cháng wán (Moisten the Intestines Pill (from Master Shen's Bo) sān bì tāng (Three Painful Obstruction Decoction) sān jiǎ fù mài tāng (Three-Shell Decoction to Restore the Pulse) shén xī dān (Magical Rhinoceros Special Pill) shèng yù tāng (Sage-Like Healing Decoction) shū jīng huó xuè tāng (Relax the Channels and Invigorate the Blood Decoction) sì shēng wán (Four-Fresh Pill) sì wù xiāo fēng yǐn (Eliminate Wind Decoction with the Four Substances) xī jiǎo dì huáng tāng (Rhinoceros Horn and Rehmannia Decoction) xiāo fēng sǎn (Eliminate Wind Powder) xiǎo jì yǐn zǐ (Cephalanoplos Decoction) xiè xīn dǎo chì tāng (Drain the Epigastrium and Guide Out the Red Decoction) xīn jiā huáng lóng tāng (Newly-Augmented Yellow Dragon Decoction ) xuè fú zhú yū tāng (Drive Out Stasis in the Mansion of Blood Decoction) yǎng xīn tāng (Nourish the Heart Decoction) yǎng yīn qīng fèi tāng (Nourish the Yin and Clear the Lungs Decoction) yī gùan jiān (Linking Decoction) yì wèi tāng (Benefit the Stomach Decoction) yī wù chái gé jiě jī tāng (Bupleurum and Kudzu Decoction To Release the Muscle Layer ) yín qiáo tāng (Honeysuckle and Forsythia Decoction) yuè huá wán (Moonlight Pill) zēng yè chéng qì tāng (Increases the fluids and Order the Qi Decoction) zēng yè tāng (Increase the Fluids Decoction) zhì gān cǎo tāng (Honey-Fried Licorice Decoction) zhū shā ān shén wán (Cinnabar Pill to Calm the Spirit)

Family:

Scrophulariaceae

Alternate Names:

Pharmaceutical: Radix Rehmanniae Glutinosae

Botanical: Rehmannia Glutinosa Libosch

Japanese: shōjiō

Korean: saengjihwang

Common: Chinese foxglove root, rehmannia (fresh),Rehmannia root

Temperature: Cold

	+2 Andrea Murchison (Rootdown Editor) Nourishes yin and generates fluids add comment

	+1 Andrea Murchison (Rootdown Editor) Cools upward-blazing of Heart fire add comment

	+1 Mellissa Rudder (Rootdown Staff) Clears heat and Cools the blood add comment

	+1 Mellissa Rudder (Rootdown Staff) High fever add comment

	+1 Mellissa Rudder (Rootdown Staff) Scarlet tongue add comment

	+1 Mellissa Rudder (Rootdown Staff) Yin deficiency with heat signs add comment

	+1 Mellissa Rudder (Rootdown Staff) Injury to the fluids add comment

	+1 Mellissa Rudder (Rootdown Staff) Dry mouth add comment

	+1 Mellissa Rudder (Rootdown Staff) Throat pain associated with yin deficiency and wasting/thirsting disorder add comment

	+1 Shaun Watkins Tonifies Spleen add comment

Sheng Di Huang生地黃 shēng dì huáng, "unprepared earth yellow"

Sheng Di Huang
生地黃 shēng dì huáng, "unprepared earth yellow"