☯ TCM Properties
Cools the Blood, stops bleeding and removes toxicity; Promotes diuresis; Kills parasites
Traditional Chinese Uses
Li Zhi Cao is the aerial part of Salvia plebeia, a heat-clearing herb that cools the Blood, stops bleeding, resolves toxicity, and promotes urination. Sweet and pungent with a cool nature, it enters the Lung and Stomach channels. It is widely used for Lung and throat heat-toxin patterns—sore, swollen throat, cough, and bronchitis—often as a decoction or gargle. By cooling the Blood it addresses reckless bleeding such as blood in the urine, coughing or vomiting of blood, hemorrhoidal bleeding, and abnormal uterine bleeding.
Its toxicity-resolving and diuretic actions make it a folk remedy for carbuncles, abscesses and mastitis (the fresh herb pounded for topical use), and for nephritic edema and painful urinary dysfunction. It is commonly decocted at generous doses or expressed as fresh juice.
Botanical Description
This record carries only the single character "L" as its title, which is not a recognizable Pinyin name for any Chinese medicinal herb. The entry appears to be a data-entry artifact or import error rather than a substantive material. No identification can be made from the supplied information and no botanical description can responsibly be provided. The record is retained in the dataset under the unidentifiable null-pattern pending correction or removal at source; any reviewer encountering this entry should consult the original import to recover the intended species or remove the record entirely.
Dosage
| Form | Amount | Frequency | Duration | Population | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| decoction | 6-15g | Daily | — | — | — |
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