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title: "Kun Bu"
url: "https://books.drcassone.com/21/traditional-medicines-of-east-asia/526/kun-bu"
---

 ![kun bu, eckloniae thallus.jpg](/u/kun-bu-eckloniae-thallus-IPd4VZ.jpg) 

# Kun Bu

### Eckloniae Thallus

_salty, cold_

#### PRIMARY FUNCTION:

_**Transforms Hot Phlegm**_

CLASSICAL MANIFESTATIONS:
- Nodulation
- Fullness in the chest
- Edema

Kun Bu is salty to reduce nodules and cold to treat heat patterns.
It enters the liver, kidney, and stomach systems.

Kun Bu has blood moving properties used to treat such disorders
as cirrhosis, tuberculosis lymphadenitis, and tumors of the thyroid
gland. It also contains iodine which supports thyroid function.

It increases urination which can reduce edema of the lower limbs.

**Channels:** liver, stomach, kidney

COMMON APPLICATIONS AND CLINICAL
POSSIBILITIES:
- Hypothyroid
- Goiter
- Enlargement of the lymph system
- Scrofula
- Swollen testicles
- Dyslipidemia
- Asthma
- Hypotensive

**Formulas:**
- Hai Zao Yu Hu Tang
- Ju He Wan
- Si Hai Shu Yu Wan

**Contraindications:** there are no contraindications
documented for Kun Bu

**Zoo Image:** a Saint Bernard with leg qi is urinating edema away on a fire
hydrant while wearing a chest harness, he squeezes baby powder onto his
neck nodules while drooling hot phlegm

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