Zi Su Ye
Perilla Folium
acrid, aromatic, warm
PRIMARY FUNCTION:
Release the Exterior for Cold Attack
CLASSICAL MANIFESTATIONS:
- Chills
- Fever
- Nasal congestion
- Headache
- Chest fullness
- Nausea
- Vomiting
- Poor appetite
- Blood stagnation
- Restless fetus
- Morning sickness
Zi Su Ye is acrid, aromatic, and warm. It enters the spleen and lung system to treat conditions of the digestive systems such as nausea and morning sickness and it treats exterior cold attack.
Channels: lung, spleen
COMMON APPLICATIONS AND CLINICAL POSSIBILITIES:
- Seafood poisoning
- Nausea
- Indigestion
- Headache
- Common cold
- Abdominal distention
- Nasal congestion
- Fever
- Threatened miscarriage
Formulas:
- Ban Xia Hou Po Tang
- Huo Xiang Zheng Qi San
- Mu Xiang Liu Qi Yin
- Su Zi Jiang Qi Tang
- Xiang Su San
- Xing Su San
- Zheng Qi Tian Xiang San
Contraindications: do not prescribe Zi Su Ye to patients that present with pathogenic diseases that are warm in nature
Zoo Image: a pregnant porcupine vomiting stepped on a fish wrapped in a spleen revival newspaper has been snagged in the chest by a fisherman’s hook