---
title: "Bai He"
url: "https://books.drcassone.com/21/traditional-medicines-of-east-asia/401/bai-he"
---

 ![bai he, lilii bulbus.jpg](/u/bai-he-lilii-bulbus-S0cY8w.jpg) 

# Bai He

### Lilii Bulbus

_sweet, slightly bitter, slightly cold_

#### PRIMARY FUNCTION:

_**Tonify Yin**_

CLASSICAL MANIFESTATIONS:
- Dry cough
 - Due to deficiency of lung yin
- Sore throat
 - Related to deficiency heat patterns of the lung
system
- Low grade fever
 - Deficiency heat
 - Worse in the afternoon and evening
- Insomnia
 - Due to deficiency heat patterns
- Hot at night
- Possible night sweats
- Irritability
 - Due to heat
 - Due to deficiency
- Palpitations
 - Enters heart system

Bai He is sweet, slightly bitter, and slightly cold. It enters the heart
and lung system to treat deficiency heat patterns such as dry
cough with heat signs that are typically worse at night.

Bai He treats yin deficiency patterns of the lung system and may
be useful for chronic sore throat and heat signs that are worse in
the evening including low grade fever.

Bai He can treat palpitations as it enters the heart system.
Palpitations are any unusual symptom of the heart including
discomfort. This can be related to an anxious feeling, insomnia,
and irritability when there is heat from deficiency of yin.

**Channels:** lung, heart

COMMON APPLICATIONS AND CLINICAL
POSSIBILITIES:
- Cough
 - Dry cough
- Deficiency of yin
- Night sweats
 - Deficiency heat
- Hot flash
 - Deficiency heat
- Sleep disorders
 - Heart system
- Heart palpitations
 - May include aspects of thyroid function
- Thirst
 - Deficiency heat causing thirst
- Sore throat
 - Dry and hot from deficiency of yin
- Fever
 - Due to deficiency of yin
- Worse at night and in the afternoon

**Formulas:**
- Bai He Gu Jin Tang
- Xin Yi Qing Fei Yin

**Contraindications:** there are no contraindications
documented for Bai He

**Zoo Image:** a spirit is shooting a turtle in the hot lungs with a water gun, the
turtle is hacking and carrying a Restless Market newspaper

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