Natural Indigo

Natural Indigo
Name
Natural Indigo
Latin Pharmaceutical Name
Indigo Naturalis
Chinese Name
青黛
Category
Others

Natural IndigoMore Info

Production Regions
Primarily produced in the Chinese provinces of Fujian, Hebei, Yunnan.
Macroscopic Features
Extremely fine powder, grayish-blue or dark blue, light in weight, easily rises as dust, can stick to hand or paper. Grass-like odor; slightly sour taste.
Quality Requirements
Superior medicinal material is evenly blue, floating up on water, producing purplish-red smoke for a while when burned.
Properties
Salty, cold
Functions
Clears heat, cools blood and eliminates spots, resolves toxin, clears liver, drains fire, calms fright. Apply to warm disease with heat, macula, nosebleed, vomiting of blood, infantile fright epilepsy, sore swelling, erysipelas, snake and insect bites.
Origin
The dried powder or lump made from the processed leaves or stems and leaves of Baphicacanthus cusia (Nees) Bremek., Polygonum tinctorium Ait or Isatis indigotica Fort. (Acanthaceae).

Natural IndigoHerbs in the formula

Sweet Wormwood and Scutellaria Gallbladder-Clearing Decoction

Sweet Wormwood and Scutellaria Gallbladder-Clearing Decoction

Action:Clears gallbladder, drains dampness, harmonizes the stomach, and dissolves phlegm.
Indication:Pattern of shaoyang damp-heat marked by alternating chills and fever similar to malaria, more fever than chills, a bitter taste in the mouth, diaphragm oppression, sour and bitter regurgitation, spitting yellow sticky drool, belching, hiccups, distending pain in the chest and rib-side, yellow scanty urine, a red tongue body, a white greasy or white yellow tongue coating, and a rapid, slippery right pulse and a rapid, wiry pulse.
Coughing with Blood Treating Decoction

Coughing with Blood Treating Decoction

Action:Clears liver heat and calms the lung, cools blood and stanches bleeding.
Indication:Syndrome of hemoptysis due to liver fire invading the lung marked by cough, thick bloodstained sputum, difficulty in spitting, vexation, irascibility, chest pain, dry throat, bitter taste in the mouth, flushed complexion, and constipation. The tongue body is red and the coating is yellow, and the pulse is wiry and rapid.
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