Latin Name: Radix Et Rhizoma Rhei

Properties: bitter, cold

Actions: purges excess and drains heat, reduces damp- and blood level heat, counteracts toxicity, eliminates blood stasis, stimulates menstrual discharge

Medical Indications: retention of feces and abdominal pain, fever with constipation, dysentery with inadequate discharge from bowels, appendicitis with abdominal pain, tumors, haeatemesis, jaundice due to damp-heat, epistaxis, inflammation of eye, swelling of throat caused by heat in blood, sores, boils, and abscesses, traumatic injuries, amemorrhea due to blood stasis, hemorrhage from upper gastrointestinal tract, topically for scalds and burns

Contraindications: not to be used during pregnancy, post-partum, menstruation, or during lactation; not to be used in cases with deficiency of spleen and stomach, not to be used in cases of Qi and blood deficiency

Dosage: 3 to 12 grams

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