Jie Geng 40 packets 1 gram

Jie Geng Granules, 2gm sachet

Brand: TCM Zone 5:1 Singles

English name: Platycodon Root Granules

Chinese name: Jie Geng Granules

Unit Size: box of 40/1 gm packets

Potency: 5:1 extract granules

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 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

Ingredients: Jie Geng - Platycodon Root

Excerpted from Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica

• Open 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. The traditional disease of Lung abscess is marked by fevers, 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.

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