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Pin Yin: lian qiao
Common name: forsythia fruit
Botanical family: Oleaceae
Botanical name: Forsythia suspensa (Thunb.) Vahl.
Primary action: Clear Heat Toxins
Secondary actions:
Release Wind Heat
Temperature: cool
Taste: bitter, slightly acrid
Entering Channel: Ht, Lu, Lv, GB, TH
Actions:
Clears Heat and Poison and dissipates nodules (i.e., boils, lymph node
enlargements).
Disperses Exterior Wind Heat, especially for sore throat, eyes, skin and
heat effusion (fever).
(See
Heat Toxin
;
Exterior Heat
;
Qi Aspect onset
.)
Indications: high fever, mouth sores, strangury,
sore throat, hard sores, lymph swelling, nodes, scrofula, heat effusion,
headache, breast abscess
Dosage:
2-5 qian.
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