Si Gua Luo (Dried Vegetable Sponge) - Chinese Herbal Medicine

Chinese Name: Si Gua Luo
English Name: Dried Vegetable Sponge

Clinical Usage and Indications

  • Expels wind, invigorates the channels - damp heat obstructing the channels and muscles causing sore chest and flank areas, sore muscles and sinews, stiff joints, traumatic injury, breast abscess.
  • Expels phlegm - cough due to lung heat with high fever, chest pain, sticky sputum.
  • Expels summer heat, promotes urination.
  • Swollen-painful breasts, insufficient lactation.

Functional Groups (Click for Summary/Study Notes)

Dosage and Preparation Notes

  • Dosage: 6-12g

Channels/Meridians Influenced

Associated Temperature and Taste

Cautions and Contraindications

There are currently no contraindications listed.

Staff Clinician Notes

There are no additional notes for this herb.

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