Heat-Clearing and Gallbladder-Benefiting Tea
Ingredients
- Corn silk 30g
- Dandelion 30g
- Artemisia capillaris (yinchen) 30g
- White sugar to taste
Principle
Corn silk promotes urination, reduces jaundice, and benefits the gallbladder; dandelion clears heat, resolves toxins, reduces swelling, and dissipates nodules; yinchen clears damp-heat and benefits the gallbladder. Together they clear heat and benefit the gallbladder. From Dietary Therapy for Common Diseases.
Effects & uses
Daily adjunct for cholecystitis or gallstones with fever and pain (syndrome differentiation required); corn silk is also used as a gallstone tea substitute (syndrome differentiation required).
Method
- Rinse the three herbs, decoct about 1000 ml in a clay pot, strain, and add sugar.
How to use
- Drink as a tea substitute.
Caution
Not for weak spleen-stomach with easy diarrhea. Not a substitute for medication. Large stones or recurrent colic require medical care. Benefiting the gallbladder is not the same as expelling stones. Daily food-care formula only.
Source
China Medical Information Platform (NATA reviewed), from Dietary Therapy for Common Diseases, reviewed by Chief Pharmacist Li Peihong. To be manually verified.