Bencao Index https://bencaoindex.com/ https://bencaoindex.com/herbs/shi-gao/ Free to use and republish with visible attribution and a link back to the source page. The catalogue is a reference work and is knowingly incomplete; nothing in it is medical advice. <a href="https://bencaoindex.com/herbs/shi-gao/">Bencao Index</a> shi gao 石膏 Gypsum Fibrosum Gypsum sekko seokgo Drain Fire Lung Stomach

Clears Heat from the Qi level, drains Fire, eases irritability and relieves thirst

Qi-level or Yang Ming Heat: high fever without chills, irritability and restlessness, intense thirst, heavy sweating, a big flooding pulse, red tongue, yellow coat Encephalitis

Clears Excess Heat from the Lungs

Cough and wheezing from Lung Heat, with fever and sticky, thick yellow phlegm

Clears blazing Stomach Fire

Stomach Fire flaring upward with headache, toothache, inflamed painful gums and thirst

Heals eczema, burns, and ulcerated sores and wounds

Sores and wounds, applied topically (in the calcined form) or taken internally