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Xia Ku Cao 500g Common Selfheal Spike Spica Prunellae
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夏枯草
Naming
Xia Ku Cao (Spica Prunellae) ——Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (Shen Nong’s Herbal)
Xia Ku Cao Common selfheal spike Common Selfheal Fruit-Spike Spica Prunellae
The Processing of 夏枯草
Origin
The ear of labiatae perennial herb Prunella vulgaris L.
Location
Everywhere in China.
Harvest
When the ear half is dry in summer.
The actual smell and taste
Light aroma, bland taste.
Best quality
Big ear in brownish red, making noise when being shaken, light and soft, not easy to be broken.
Processing
Unprocessed.
The Effect of 夏枯草
Property
Bitter and pungent; liver meridian entered.
Actions
Clear and purge liver fire, relieve toxicity and dissipate nodulation.
Indications
A. Up-flaming of liver fire
Being bitter and cold, entering liver meridian, and being liable to clear and descend, it is good for up-flaming of liver fire, manifested as blood-shot and swollen eyes, headache, and dizziess. For eye diseases due to liver heat it can be used alone. For instance, the soaked one in granulated sugar water is especially indicated for painful eyeballs. For clearing liver heat and improving vision, it is more often combined with herbs, such as Ju Hua, Jue Ming Zi and Qing Xiang Zi. For painful eyeballs, and getting worse nighttime due to liver deficiency, it is combined with herbs for nourishing liver yin or blood, such as Sheng Di Huang, Dang Gui and Bai Shao, etc. They are combined together in Xia Ku Cao San from Zhang Shi Yi Tong (Zhang's Treatise on General Medicine). For headache and dizziness due to liver fire, it is combined with liver-soothing and liver-clearing herbs such as Ju Hua and Jue Ming Zi.
Modern research showed that it has certain actions of lowering blood pressure. Therefore, it is often used for treating liver-heat hypertension manifested as headache, dizziness, irritability,etc.
For yin deficiency with hyperactivity of yang, it is combined with yin-nourishing and yang-subduing herbs.
B. Phlegm and fire combined, sores and abscesses due to heat toxin
It can clear liver and purge fire, and be used for scrofula, goiter, and hyperplasia of mammary gland caused by liver qi stagnant transformed into fire, which burning the fluids into phlegm. It is usually combined with phlegm-resolving and nodulation-dissipating herbs. For instance, it is combined with Hai Zao, Bei Mu, Xuan Shen, etc., as in Xiao Lei Wan from Yang Yi Da Quan (A Complete Handbook on Traumato-Orthopedics).
It has the actions of clearing heat and relieving toxicity, and can be indicated for mammary abscess, swollen sores, mumps, and red and swollen sore throat. It is often combined with heat-clearing and toxicity-relieving herbs to strengthen the effects.
Dosage and Administrations
Decoct 10~15 g.
Quality Assurance
This bulk herb Xia Ku Cao 夏枯草 Common Selfheal Spike Spica Prunellae is of premium quality. Our bulk Chinese herbs are mostly wild harvested but some herbs are farm grown to protect their natural habitats and meet incremental market demands. The harvests of right species at proper maturity are identified by experienced professionals, cleaned, cut or sliced, and dried. Cases, special processing methods such as soaking with rice wine, steaming, roasting are applied as mandated by traditional Chinese medicine traditions to prepare the Chinese herbs to achieve desired properties, enhance efficacy, and reduce toxicity.
Warning
In the course of formulas to enhance each other's desirable action and to minimize any potential side effect. In TCM, Chinese herbs are mostly combined in the context of formulas to enhance each other's desirable action and to minimize any potential side effect.
夏枯草
Naming
Xia Ku Cao (Spica Prunellae) ——Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (Shen Nong’s Herbal)
Xia Ku Cao Common selfheal spike Common Selfheal Fruit-Spike Spica Prunellae
The Processing of 夏枯草
Origin
The ear of labiatae perennial herb Prunella vulgaris L.
Location
Everywhere in China.
Harvest
When the ear half is dry in summer.
The actual smell and taste
Light aroma, bland taste.
Best quality
Big ear in brownish red, making noise when being shaken, light and soft, not easy to be broken.
Processing
Unprocessed.
The Effect of 夏枯草
Property
Bitter and pungent; liver meridian entered.
Actions
Clear and purge liver fire, relieve toxicity and dissipate nodulation.
Indications
A. Up-flaming of liver fire
Being bitter and cold, entering liver meridian, and being liable to clear and descend, it is good for up-flaming of liver fire, manifested as blood-shot and swollen eyes, headache, and dizziess. For eye diseases due to liver heat it can be used alone. For instance, the soaked one in granulated sugar water is especially indicated for painful eyeballs. For clearing liver heat and improving vision, it is more often combined with herbs, such as Ju Hua, Jue Ming Zi and Qing Xiang Zi. For painful eyeballs, and getting worse nighttime due to liver deficiency, it is combined with herbs for nourishing liver yin or blood, such as Sheng Di Huang, Dang Gui and Bai Shao, etc. They are combined together in Xia Ku Cao San from Zhang Shi Yi Tong (Zhang's Treatise on General Medicine). For headache and dizziness due to liver fire, it is combined with liver-soothing and liver-clearing herbs such as Ju Hua and Jue Ming Zi.
Modern research showed that it has certain actions of lowering blood pressure. Therefore, it is often used for treating liver-heat hypertension manifested as headache, dizziness, irritability,etc.
For yin deficiency with hyperactivity of yang, it is combined with yin-nourishing and yang-subduing herbs.
B. Phlegm and fire combined, sores and abscesses due to heat toxin
It can clear liver and purge fire, and be used for scrofula, goiter, and hyperplasia of mammary gland caused by liver qi stagnant transformed into fire, which burning the fluids into phlegm. It is usually combined with phlegm-resolving and nodulation-dissipating herbs. For instance, it is combined with Hai Zao, Bei Mu, Xuan Shen, etc., as in Xiao Lei Wan from Yang Yi Da Quan (A Complete Handbook on Traumato-Orthopedics).
It has the actions of clearing heat and relieving toxicity, and can be indicated for mammary abscess, swollen sores, mumps, and red and swollen sore throat. It is often combined with heat-clearing and toxicity-relieving herbs to strengthen the effects.
Dosage and Administrations
Decoct 10~15 g.
Quality Assurance
This bulk herb Xia Ku Cao 夏枯草 Common Selfheal Spike Spica Prunellae is of premium quality. Our bulk Chinese herbs are mostly wild harvested but some herbs are farm grown to protect their natural habitats and meet incremental market demands. The harvests of right species at proper maturity are identified by experienced professionals, cleaned, cut or sliced, and dried. Cases, special processing methods such as soaking with rice wine, steaming, roasting are applied as mandated by traditional Chinese medicine traditions to prepare the Chinese herbs to achieve desired properties, enhance efficacy, and reduce toxicity.
Warning
In the course of formulas to enhance each other's desirable action and to minimize any potential side effect. In TCM, Chinese herbs are mostly combined in the context of formulas to enhance each other's desirable action and to minimize any potential side effect.
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