☯ TCM Properties
Clears Heat and cools the Blood; Nourishes Yin , generates Fluids, i ncreases saliva and t reats wasting and thirsting; Cools Heart Fire
Traditional Chinese Uses
Sheng Di Huang, the fresh or dried unprocessed root of Rehmannia glutinosa (Radix Rehmanniae), is sweet, bitter and cold, entering the heart, liver and kidney channels. It clears heat and cools the blood, and nourishes yin while generating fluids. It is a principal herb for warm-febrile disease when heat enters the nutritive (ying) and blood levels, causing high fever, crimson tongue, delirium or maculopapular rashes, and for reckless bleeding from blood heat such as vomiting or coughing blood, nosebleed and blood in the urine or stool. It also treats yin deficiency with fever, night sweats and thirst, wasting-thirst (xiao ke), and dry constipation. Classic pairings include Xuan Shen and water buffalo horn to cool blood and resolve toxicity, Mu Dan Pi for blood heat with stasis, and Mai Dong to enrich fluids.
Western Herbalism Properties
Used In Formulas (4)
Botanical Description
Sheng Di Huang (生地黄) is the fresh or dried unprocessed root tuber of Rehmannia glutinosa (Gaertn.) DC., a perennial herb in the Orobanchaceae (formerly Scrophulariaceae) native to northern and central China. The plant reaches 10–30 cm tall, with a basal rosette of obovate, crinkled, soft-hairy leaves and erect stems bearing tubular, two-lipped flowers in dull reddish-purple with yellow throats. The fleshy, fusiform root tubers are pale yellow-orange when fresh and turn dark brown to nearly black on drying. Sheng Di Huang denotes the unprocessed form, distinguished from Shu Di Huang (the wine-steamed, blackened root); the unprocessed root is cooling and moistening, while the processed form is warming and tonifying.
Dosage
| Form | Amount | Frequency | Duration | Population | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| decoction | 6-15g | Daily | — | — | — |
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