☯ TCM Properties
Clears Heat cools the Blood and removes toxicity; Nourishes Yin , moistens the Lungs and promotes salivation
Traditional Chinese Uses
Shi Xian Tao (石仙桃), the pseudobulbs of the epiphytic orchid Pholidota chinensis, is a southern-Chinese folk medicinal that is bitter, slightly sour and cool. It clears Heat, cools the Blood and relieves toxicity, and it nourishes Yin, moistens the Lungs and promotes the production of body fluids, entering the Lung and Kidney channels.
Traditionally it is decocted for cough (including consumptive cough and tuberculosis), sore dry throat, and Lung Heat patterns, as well as for headache, dizziness and hypertension, summerheat, and childhood malnutrition (gan). Its cooling, detoxifying action is also applied to scrofula and to sores and swellings, used both internally and as a topical wash. It remains chiefly a regional folk remedy rather than a standard materia medica herb.
Botanical Description
Shi Xian Tao (石仙桃), literally "stone immortal peach," is a regional Chinese folk-name applied in southern provinces most often to Pholidota chinensis Lindl. (Orchidaceae), an epiphytic orchid that grows on rocks and tree trunks producing chains of fleshy ovoid pseudobulbs reminiscent of small peaches, alongside short racemes of small white to cream flowers. The fresh or dried pseudobulbs and whole plant are used in folk medicine for cough, lung heat, and traumatic injury. Because the identification rests on regional usage rather than core pharmacopoeial assignment and other plants are occasionally given the same name, this record follows the unidentifiable null-pattern; reviewers should resolve the species against the original source before clinical use.
Dosage
| Form | Amount | Frequency | Duration | Population | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| decoction | 6-15g | Daily | — | — | — |
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