Traditional Chinese Medicine/Sheng Di Huang

Name Means: English Name:
 * Sheng-Fresh
 * Di-Earth or soil
 * Huang-Yellow
 * rehmannia root
 * Chinese foxglove root

Latin Name:
 * Radix Rehmanniae Glutinosae

Chinese Name:
 * 生地黄 (Simplified Chinese)
 * 生地黃 (Traditional Chinese)

Chinese Pinyin: shēng dì huáng

Taste & Temperature:
 * ../Gan-Sweet/
 * ../Ku-Bitter/
 * ../Han-Cold/

Channels:
 * Hand Shao Yin of Heart
 * Foot Jue Yin of Liver
 * Foot Shao Yin of Kidney

Actions & Indications:
 * Clear Heat & Cool Blood, for Heat in Blood level
 * nourish Yin
 * nourish Yin/Blood and generates fluids
 * used for wasting and thirsting disorder
 * cool upward blazing Heart Fire

Contraindications:
 * Spleen/Stomach deficiency with diarrhea
 * Spleen deficiency with Damp
 * Yang deficiency
 * weak pregnant women with deficient Blood or deficient Spleen/Stomach
 * should avoid onions, garlic, radishes

Dosage:
 * 3-10 qian (9-30 grams)