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Introduction To Flavescent Sophora Root (ku shen)

Flavescent Sophora Root (ku shen)

Radix Sophorae Flavescentis

Properties: Bitter in flavour, cold in nature, it acts on the heart, liver, large intestine and bladder channels. The cold property is capable of clearing heat, the bitter flavour removing the dampness and purging fore downward. For this reason, the herb is good at clearing the pathogenic heat in the lower-jiao, hence indition, the herb can also expell wind, destroy intestinal parasites, and relieve itching. Therefore, it is often used to cure itching of urticaria and eczema.

Effect: Clearing heat and dampness, destroying intestinal parasites, relieving itching and inducing diuresis.

Indications:

1. For treating dysentery caused by damp-heat, it is used in combination with aucklandia root and liquorice. For treating hemorrhoid with bleeding, it is used in combination with the drugs for stopping bleeding by removing heat from the blood, such as dried rehmannia root and sophora fruit. In case of jaundice due to damp-heat in the liver and gallbladder, it is used with oriental wormwood and capejasmine fruit to normalize the function of the gallbladder and clear jaundice.

2.  For treating stranguria, profuse leukorrhea, vaginal itching and eczema caused by the downward flow of dampness and relieving itching, such as dittany bark, phellodendron bark, etc.

In addition, in ancient clinical practice the herb was used to cure scabies and leprosy. 

Dosage and Administration: 3-10g, proper dosage (quabtum satis) when applied externally.

Precautions: The herb is incompatible with hellebore root and contraindicated in cases of insufficiency of the spleen and stomach..

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