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title: "Dai Zhe Shi"
url: "https://books.drcassone.com/21/traditional-medicines-of-east-asia/452/dai-zhe-shi"
---

 ![dai zhe shi, haematitum.jpg](/u/dai-zhe-shi-haematitum-7t3IbN.jpg) 

# Dai Zhe Shi

### Haematitum

_bitter, cold_

#### PRIMARY FUNCTION:

_**Extinguish Wind and Stop Tremor**_

CLASSICAL MANIFESTATIONS:
- Disorders of internal wind
 - Vertigo
 - Dizziness
- Yang dysfunction
 - Headache
 - Eye pressure
 - Tinnitus
- Indigestion
- Vomiting
- Wheezing
- Hiccough
- Epistaxis
- Hematemesis

Dai Zhe Shi is bitter and cold. It enters the liver, heart, and
pericardium to circulate blood. A stagnation of liver qi and blood
and cause problems in many other systems but this herb uniquely
enters the heart and pericardium systems. The bitter quality plus
the heavy nature of this herb help it to sedate and reduce
dysfunctional yang patterns.

Dai Zhe Shi can treat patterns of bleeding especially when the
pattern is caused from heat as this is a cold herb. It also contains
iron which supports blood health.

**Channels:** liver, heart, pericardium

COMMON APPLICATIONS AND CLINICAL
POSSIBILITIES:
- Anemia
- Indigestion
- Deafness
- Biliary congestion
- Hemafecia
- Hypertension
- Glaucoma

**Formulas:**
- Chai Hu Jia Long Gu Mu Li Tang
- Jian Ling Tang
- Xuan Fu Dai Zhe Shi Tang
- Zhen Gan Xi Feng Tang

**Contraindications:** Dai Zhe Shi herb should not be
prescribed to patients long term and should not be prescribed to
pregnant patients

**Zoo Image:** a rhino with a blind fold and a nose bleed, a yang red head,
hearing music, has pinned the tail on his own forehead and is vomiting

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