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Qing Hao / Wormwood, aerial part
Qing Hao
Taste: Bitter • Temperature: Cold • Category: Clear Heat • Sub Category: Relieve Summerheat

Dosage

3-9g, up to 24g

Actions

1. Clears summerheat: especially for summerheat with low fever, headache, dizziness, & a stifling sensation in the chest.

2. Clears fevers from deficiency: for fevers from either blood deficiency or as the sequelae of a febrile disease. Especially for unremitting fever or night fever & morning coolness with an absence of sweating.

3. Cools blood & stops bleeding: for purpuric rashes or nosebleed due to heat in the blood.

4. Checks malarial disorders & relieves heat: for the alternating fever & chills of malarial disorders.

Meridians

Kidney, Liver, Gallbladder

Cautions

Contraindicated in post partum women with blood deficiency, or in cases of cold from deficiency of the Spleen & Stomach. According to some traditional sources, this herb should not be used with sheng di huang or dang gui.