---
title: "Lu Dou"
url: "https://books.drcassone.com/21/traditional-medicines-of-east-asia/536/lu-dou"
---

 ![lu dou, phaseoli radiati semen.jpg](/u/lu-dou-phaseoli-radiati-semen-SYqlW6.jpg) 

# Lu Dou

### Phaseoli Radiati Semen

_sweet, cold_

#### PRIMARY FUNCTION:

_**Clears Heat and Resolves Toxicity**_

CLASSICAL MANIFESTATIONS:
- Fever
- Irascibility
- Thirst
- Sores
- Poisoning

Lu Dou enters the heart and the stomach. It is sweet and cold to
bring down fever induced by summer heat patterns. A patient can
grind Lu Dou and make a tea out of it to sip on during hot
summer days.

The antidote function of Lu Dou can be used for Zhi Fu Zi
poisoning or for fava bean poisoning.

**Channels:** stomach, heart

COMMON APPLICATIONS AND CLINICAL
POSSIBILITIES:
- Diuresis
- Mouth sores
- Carbuncles

**Contraindications:** prescribe Lu Dou with caution to
patients that have diarrhea

**Zoo Image:** a beluga whale with sores under a hot umbrella is drinking a big
cup of fluids

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