Bai Wei
Cynanchi Atrati Radix
bitter, salty, cold
PRIMARY FUNCTION:
Clear Deficiency Heat
CLASSICAL MANIFESTATIONS:
- Fever
- Deficiency heat
- Worse at night
- Thin rapid pulse
- Red tongue
- Urinary disorders
- Painful urination
- Bloody urination
- Sore throat
- Deficiency heat pattern
- Dry
- Snakebites
- Sores
Bai Wei is bitter, salty, and cold to detoxify, dissolve, and treat heat related patterns caused from deficiency of yin.
It treats fevers from yin deficiency, postpartum fevers, and fevers in children from summertime heat.
Channels: lung, kidney, stomach
COMMON APPLICATIONS AND CLINICAL POSSIBILITIES:
- Fever
- Deficiency heat patterns
- Heat exhaustion
- Heat stroke
- Hematuria
- Dry cough
- Deficiency of heat
- Abscess
- Urinary tract infection
- Hot flash
- Night sweats
- Deficiency heat pattern
Formulas:
- Jia Jian Wei Rui Tang
Contraindications: do not combine Bai Wei with Huang Qi, Da Huang, Da Ji, Gan Jiang, Da Zao, or Shan Zhu Yu
Zoo Image: a woolly mammoth and her child are dressed for Halloween as candy corns, she has steaming hot blood to drink at a party but doesn’t drink it so she won’t get another fever, and her costume has a urine colored spider and toxic sores