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title: "Di Gu Pi"
url: "https://books.drcassone.com/21/traditional-medicines-of-east-asia/460/di-gu-pi"
---

 ![di gu pi, lycii cortex.jpg](/u/di-gu-pi-lycii-cortex-aLR9wY.jpg) 

# 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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