Bo He 40 packets 1 gram

Bo He Granules, 1 gm

Brand: TCM Zone 5:1 Singles

English name: mentha, field mint

Chinese name: Bo He, 1 gm

Unit Size: box of 40/1 gm packets

Potency: 5:1 extract granules

Taste: Acrid, aromatic - Bensky

Properties: cool - Bensky

Contraindications: This herb can deplete the qi and should not be used in debilitated patients who sweat profusely or in those with ascendant Liver yang - Bensky

Chinese Symptomology: Fever, cough, headache, red eyes, sore throat; rashes; pressure in the chest or flanks, emotional instability, and gynecological problems due to constrained Liver qi; abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea due to summerheat gastric disturbance - Bensky

Actions: Facilitates the dispersal of upper burner wind-heat, cools and clears the eyes and head, soothes the throat, facilitates the flow of Liver qi and expels turbid filth - Bensky

Pattern: Wind-heat; Rashes; Constrained Liver qi; Summertime gastric disturbance - Bensky

Channels Entered: Lung, Liver - Bensky

Ingredients: Bo He - Menthae haplocalycis Herba

Excerpted from Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed

• Disperses wind-heat, clears and benefits the head, eyes, and throat: for patterns of wind-heat with fever, cough, headache, red eyes, and sore throat.
• Vents rashes: used in the early stages of rashes to induce the rash to come to the surface as a means of venting the wind and heat and thereby speed recovery.
• Allows constrained Liver qi to flow freely: for constrained Liver qi with such symptoms as pressure in the chest or flanks, emotional instability..
• Expels turbid filth: for problems such as summertime exposure to unclean qi leading to summerheat gastric disturbance (sha zhang), with abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, and a thick, greasy, yellow tongue coating.

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