Bei Sha Shen
Glehniae Radix
sweet, slightly bitter, slightly cold
PRIMARY FUNCTION:
Tonify Yin
CLASSICAL MANIFESTATIONS:
- Cough
- Deficiency heat
- Dry cough
- Dry mouth
- Yin deficiency patterns
- Thirst
- Yin deficiency patterns
- Irritability
- Due to heat
- Deficiency of yin
Bei Sha Shen is sweet, bitter, and slightly cold. It enters the lung and stomach systems to treat yin deficiency related pathologies including dry cough dry parched mouth.
Bei Sha Shen is considered to be a better medicine at nourishing stomach yin than Nan Sha Shen.
When the body’s yin is deficient then yang becomes excess from the imbalance. This creates heat referred to as deficiency heat. It results in irritability. This explains why Bei Sha Shen can treat irritability because it nourishes yin.
Channels: lung, stomach
COMMON APPLICATIONS AND CLINICAL POSSIBILITIES:
- Cough
- Dry cough
- Fever
- Worse at night
- Hot flash
- Worse at night
- Digestive disorders
- Stomach yin deficiency
- Dysglycemia
- Common cold
- Sleep disorders
- Night sweats
- Deficiency heat
- Sore throat
- Chronic and dry from deficiency heat
Contraindications: Bei Sha Shen should not be prescribed to patients that present with cold patterns of the lung or stomach whether deficiency or excess in nature
Zoo Image: a turtle with dry hot crackled stomach and lungs is in the desert parched and getting a drip of water from its upside down shell that it caught rain water in