State/School

California License Exam, ESATM, NYTCM, Pacific College Comps, Southern California University of Health Sciences, Yo San University

Pharm Name

Natrii Sulfas

Common Name

Mirabilite

Category

Downward-Draining Herbs/Purgatives

Ingredients

Taste

Acrid, Bitter, Salty

Pao Zhi

Temperature

Very Cold

Action / Indication

1. Purges the bowels and expels stagnation: used to treat constipation due to excess heat, with dry, hard stools.
2. Drains fire from the Lungs, Stomach, and Heart to treat high fever with irritability and thirst, delirium, mania, severe aggitation, or cough with thick yellow sticky sputum.
3. Clears heat and shrinks swelling: used to treat hot swollen breast lumps (without pus), oral ulcers, swollen, painful; throat and mouth, and red swollen skin infections. May be used topically to cease lactation.

Treatment Principles

Purges the Bowels
Drains Fire
Clears Heat
Reduces Swelling

Contraindication

Spleen/Stomach deficiency cold, elderly patients, pregnancy, lactating mothers, menstruation.

Dosages

6-18g. Do not decoct. Add to warm water or strained decoction. To cease lactation, use large amounts of the herb powdered and taped to both breasts with gauze.

Meridians

ST, LI

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