Lu Gen (Reed Rhizome) - Chinese Herbal Medicine

Chinese Name: Lu Gen
English Name: Reed Rhizome

Clinical Usage and Indications

  • Clears heat, generates fluids - heat patterns with high fever, irritability, thirst.
  • Clears lung heat - cough, thick yellow sputum.
  • Clears stomach heat - vomiting, belching.
  • Clears heat, diuretic - dark, scanty urine, xue lin, accompanied by thirst and irritability.
  • Encourages rashes to the surface - for febrile disease with rashes that are incompletely expressed.

Functional Groups (Click for Summary/Study Notes)

Dosage and Preparation Notes

  • Dosage: 15-30g
  • When used alone, up to 60g

Channels/Meridians Influenced

Associated Temperature and Taste

Cautions and Contraindications

  • Avoid in patients with spleen or stomach cold from deficiency.

Staff Clinician Notes

There are no additional notes for this herb.

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