Bai Bu #

Stemonae Radix #

sweet, bitter, slightly warm

PRIMARY FUNCTION: #

Transform Phlegm and Stop Cough

CLASSICAL MANIFESTATIONS:

• Acute cough
  • Due to phlegm
  • Especially cold patterns
• Chronic cough
  • Due to phlegm
  • Especially cold patterns
• Lice
• Bacterial vaginosis
• Pinworm

Bai Bu is sweet, bitter, and slightly warm. It enters the lung system to relieve cough. Its sweet nature allows Bai Bu to treat cough especially when it is due to an underlying deficiency pattern that results in the eventual accumulation of phlegm, which becomes an excess pattern.

Bai Bu has a bitter property which allows it to detoxify and eliminate harmful pathogens and parasites.

Channels: lung

COMMON APPLICATIONS AND CLINICAL POSSIBILITIES:

• Antimicrobial
  • Bitter property
• Cough
  • Enters the lung system
  • Due to phlegm
• Wheeze
  • Enters the lung system
  • Sweet nature tonifies lung
• Exercise induced asthma
• Lice infections
• Bronchitis
• Parasitic infections

Formulas:

• Zhi Sou San

Contraindications: do not prescribe Bai Bu to patients that present with poor digestive function

Zoo Image: a puffin is lying on its back with cough syrup on its abdomen with a sprinkler going and lice bouncing around

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