Biota Leaves (Thuja Orientalis)
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The herb is bitter and puckery in flavour, slightly cold in nature, and acts on the lung, liver and large intestine channels. Being bitter and cold for clearing heat, and heat from blood to stop bleeding, the herb is used to treat bleeding due to blood-heat. Acting on the lung channel for purifying and lowering the lung-Qi, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, the herb is used to treat cough due to phlegm and heat in the lung. It is particularly appropriate for patients with hemoptysis to use the herb.
Effects: Clearing heat from blood to stop bleeding, resolving phlegm and relieving cough.
Indications:
1. The herb is often used in combination with lotus leaf, dried rehmannia root and argyi leaf for strengthening the effect of clearing heat from blood to stop bleeding, such as Sisheng Pill, to treat haematemesis, appostaxis, hematochizia, merorrhea and metrostaxis and many other kinds of bleeding caused by blood-heat; and with prepared ginger, argyi leaf, astragalus root, white atracylodes rhizome and other herbs for supplementing Qi and warming the channels to stop bleeding, to treat bleeding due to cold of insufficiency type.
2. The treat cough due to lung-heat or expectoration with bloody sputum, the herb can be ground into powder and made into a concentrated decoction with Chinese date for drinking, or it is used in combination with scutellaria root, cogongrass rhizome, fritillary bulb and other herbs for clearing heat from the lung, resolving phlegm and relieving cough.