Qing Hao
Artemisiae Annuae Herba
acrid, bitter, cold
PRIMARY FUNCTION:
Clear Deficiency Heat
CLASSICAL MANIFESTATIONS:
- Fever
- Stifling in the chest
- Headache
- Dizziness
- Rashes
- Epistaxis
- Malarial disorders
Qing Hao is bitter and cold. It enters the gallbladder, liver, and kidney systems to cool the blood from yin deficient heat patterns.
Channels: kidney, liver, gallbladder
COMMON APPLICATIONS AND CLINICAL POSSIBILITIES:
- Alternating chills and fever
- Five palm heat
- Heat exhaustion
- Bleeding disorders
- Antimicrobial
- Jaundice
- Scabies
- Rash
- Asthma
Formulas:
- Hao Qin Qing Dan Tang
- Qing Gu San
- Qing Hao Bie Jia Tang
Contraindications: do not prescribe Qing Hao to patients that present with poor digestive function
Zoo Image: a wooly mammoth is at a crossroad with summer heat, mosquitos, and a hot blood river, if he goes straight ahead he can put out the hot coals and save the skulls from fever, he has qi, yin, and blood rocks