sha shen

About sha shen

Sha Shen is a name the catalogue holds with nothing behind it but the pinyin. Bei Sha Shen and Nan Sha Shen, which are different plants, are entered separately.

Names

Pinyinsha shen

Actions and indications

Nourishes Lung Yin and clears Lung Heat

  • Dry cough, or a cough bringing up small amounts of sticky phlegm with difficulty
  • Lung Yin deficiency with Heat causing a dry throat and hoarseness

Resolves Phlegm

  • Lung dryness complicated by scanty, tenacious phlegm, where a purely moistening herb would not suffice

Nourishes Stomach Yin and generates Fluids

  • Stomach Yin deficiency with a dry mouth, thirst, poor appetite and a dry red tongue
  • Fluids damaged by a febrile illness

Mildly tonifies Qi

Cautions

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