Bai Jiang Cao #

Patriniae Herba #

acrid, bitter, slightly cold

PRIMARY FUNCTION: #

Clears Heat and Resolves Toxicity

CLASSICAL MANIFESTATIONS:

• Intestinal abscess
  • Due to excess pathogenic heat
  • Appendicitis
• Pain
  • Abdominal pain
  • Chest pain
  • Postoperative pain
  • Postpartum pain
  • Due to patterns of blood stagnation in the middle jiao

Bai Jiang Cao is bitter which helps it to drain downward and eliminate harmful toxins. This is a detoxification function.

Its acrid quality breaks up patterns of stagnation and its slightly cold quality is antimicrobial. It can also be applied topically.

Bai Jiang Cao enters the liver, stomach, and large intestine systems to treat conditions of the gastrointestinal tract.

Channels: liver, stomach, large intestine

COMMON APPLICATIONS AND CLINICAL POSSIBILITIES:

• Appendicitis
  • Heat infection
• Rapid forceful pulse
• Biliary congestion
  • Liver phase II support
• Antimicrobial
  • Pneumonia
  • Mumps
  • Tonsillitis
• Gastrointestinal tract pathologies
  • Ulcerative colitis
  • IBS
  • Due to heat patterns in the gastrointestinal tract
• Sleep disorders
  • Due to pathogenic heat internally
  • Due to liver phase II dysregulation causing sympathetic nervous system dominance nocturnally

Formulas:

• Yi Yi Fu Zi Bai Jiang San

Contraindications: Bai Jiang Cao should be used cautiously with pregnant patients as it is bitter and acrid and has blood moving qualities

Zoo Image: a beluga whale holds a blood gun by his scar, pus and intestines are coming out of his blow hole

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