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Introduction To Green Chiretta (chuan xin lian)  

 

 

 

Green Chiretta (chuan xin lian)

Herba Andrographitis

Properties: Bitter in flavour, cold in nature, it acts on the lung, stomach, large intestine and small intestine channels. The bitter and cold properties clear away heat, detoxicate and eliminate dampness. The herb has the functions of removing the excessive fire and noxious heat from the lung and stomach, as well as removing the damp-heat pathogens in the large intestine. So all of the syndromes of cough due to lung-heat, swollen throat due to stomach-fire, diarrhea due to damp-heat and stranguria can be treated with this herb.

Effects: Clearing away heat, detoxicating, removing dampness by diuresis for treating stranguria.

Indications:

1. For suppurative infections caused by noxious heat, swollen throat and canker sores in the mouth, it is used in combination with the heat-clearing and detoxicating herbs, such as honeysuxkle flower, capejasmine fruit and wild chrysanthemum flower. In cases of cough due to lung-heat, or acute appendicitis and cough with purulent sputum, it is used in combination with the drugs for removing heat from the lung, relieving cough, resolving boils and draining pus, such as scutellaria root, mulberry bark, houttuynia and waxgourd kernel.

2. For dysentery caused by damp-heat, diarrhea with purulent and bloody stool, it is used in combination with the heat-clearing and dampness-drying herbs, such as coptis root and phellodendron bark. In cases of stranguria due to damp-heat, it is used in combination with the herbs for diuresis and treating stranguria, such as plantain seed, pyrrosia leaf and prostrate knotweed.

In addition, it can also be used to treat snakebite.

Dosage and Administration: 6-15g. It is commonly used in the forms of pills, powder and tablets.

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