Di Gu Pi #

Lycii Cortex #

sweet, bland, cold

PRIMARY FUNCTION: #

Clear Deficiency Heat

CLASSICAL MANIFESTATIONS:

• Yin deficiency heat patterns
  • Night sweats
  • Bone pain
  • Chronic low grade fever
  • Irascibility
  • Thirst
• Toothache
• Cough
• Wheeze

Di Gu Pi is sweet, bland, and cold. It enters the lung, kidney, and liver systems to treat heat patterns due to deficiency of yin.

Channels: lung, liver, kidney

COMMON APPLICATIONS AND CLINICAL POSSIBILITIES:

• High blood pressure
• Fever
• Dry cough
• Skin abscess
• Urinary tract infections
• Painful urination

Formulas:

• Qing Gu San
• Qing Re Gu Jing Tang
• Xie Bai San
• Yi Yin Jian

Contraindications: do not prescribe Di Gu Pi to patients that present with loose stool due to poor digestive function

Zoo Image: a woolly mammoth has a big excess pot and a small deficient pot, its kidneys are on fire, its bones hot, and he’s coughing because the steam is heating his lungs

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