Bai Jie Zi
Sinapis Semen
acrid, warm
PRIMARY FUNCTION:
Transform Cold Phlegm
CLASSICAL MANIFESATIONS:
- Cough
- Due to cold phlegm
- Chest distention
- Due to accumulation of phlegm in the upper jiao
- Pain
- Skin disorders
- Sores
- Abscesses
- Nodulation
- Including glandular
- Scrofula
Bai Jie Zi is acrid and warm to break up cold phlegm accumulations. It enters the lung to treat cough when there is excess mucus production.
Phlegm gathers to create nodules which Bai Jie Zi can dissipate especially when the pattern is cold in nature.
Bai Jie Zi does not treat the cause of the cold phlegm accumulation which may include splenic and pulmonary functions with a likely deficiency of yang. Other medicines will need to be prescribed for root cause treatment.
Channels: lung
COMMON APPLICATIONS AND CLINICAL POSSIBILITIES:
- Full sensation in the chest
- Due to phlegm accumulation
- Chronic cough
- Due to cold phlegm
- Swollen lymph nodes
- Body aches
- Boils
- Pulmonary disorders
- Pleurisy
- Pneumonia
- COPD
- Lipomas
Formulas:
- San Zi Yang Qin Tang
- Xuan Yu Tong Jing Tang
- Yang He Tang
Contraindications: do not prescribe Bai Jie Zi to patients that present with lung deficiency or severe deficiency heat patterns
Zoo Image: a painter Great Dane with a tennis ball on his hat is painting blue lungs dripping with his qi balls paint while he has scrofula, there are clumps of paint on the floor