Jie Geng 100 cap 5:1 concentration

Jie Geng Capsules

Unit Size: 100 gelatin capsules (5:1 extract granules)

Dosage: As directed

Potency: 5:1 extract granules encapsulated

Taste: Bitter, Acrid - Bensky

Properties: Neutral - Bensky

Contraindications: Because of this herb's acrid, dispersing, and draining qualitities, it is contraindicated for chronic cough from yin deficiency or in patients with a tendency to cough up blood. - Bensky

Chinese Symptomology: Cough or wheezing with profuse sputum, throat pain, loss of voice; Lung abscess with fevers/chest pain/coughing of yellow sputum with a fishy smell, throat abscess - Bensky

Actions: Causes the qi and the actions of other herbs to rise, soothes the throat, releases the exterior, transforms phlegm, expels pus. - Bensky

Pattern: Cold or Hot phlegm conditions; abscess - Bensky

Channels Entered: Lung - Bensky

English name: Platycodon Root; Balloon Flower Root; Platycodon grandiflora

Description

Excerpted from Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica

• Opens up and disseminates the Lung qi, dispels phlegm, and benefits the throat: for cough or wheezing with profuse sputum, throat pain, and loss of voice. Can be used for cough with profuse sputum from either cold or heat.*
• Pushes out pus: for expelling pus associated with Lung abscess or throat abscess. The traditional disease of Lung abscess is marked by fevers, chest pain, coughing of yellow sputum with a fishy smell, along with coughing up of blood and pus.*
• Opens up and raises the Lung qi, while also directing the actions of other herbs to the upper regions of the body: used not only to reinforce the actions of other herbs that clear and drain the upper burner, but also whenever the actions of a formula should be focused on the upper regions of the body.*

Ingredients

• Jie Geng - Platycodon Radix (5:1 extract granules)