TCM Zone Single Herb Granules - 100g Bottles

Dispels cold-dampness, stops pain due to cold, stops bleeding, calms the fetus during pregnancy*

Tonifies the Kidney yang without being overly drying, augments the essence, expels wind-dampness* - Bensky

Strengthens the Spleen, Clears Summer-Heat and Dampness, Eliminates Toxins* - Chen: Chinese Medical Herbology and Pharmacology

Excels at directing qi downward* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Acrid, warm and aromatic, Amomi Fructus rotundas (bai dou kou) enters the Lung, Spleen, and Stomach channels.*

Enriches the Ling yin, drains yin, drains heat from the Heart, stops coughs, quiets the spirit* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Clears heat, strongly resolves fire toxicity, and reduces abscesses; Clears heat and facilitates resolution of dampness by promoting urination.*

Bitter, sweet, and cool, restraining and astringent, with a very sticky texture, Bletillae Rhizoma (bai ji) enters the Lung, Stomach, and Liver channels.*

Resolves toxicity, expels pus, invigorate the blood, reduces abscesses* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Penetrates to the yin to restore movement to the yang, transforms cold-phlegm, dissipates clumps* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Cools the blood, stops bleeding, clears heat in the Lungs and Stomach, promotes urination* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Directs the Lung qi downward; suitable for any type of cough; especially good for phlegm in the throat* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Tonifies the Liver blood, extinguishes wind, stops pain, nourishes the Liver and Spleen yin* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Tonifies the Liver blood, extinguishes wind, stops pain, nourishes the Liver and Spleen yin* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Key characteristics: expels damp-heat accumulated in the blood vessels of the muscles and flesh, leads dam-heat out through the urine, stops itching, clears sores, relieves painful obstruction. - Bensky; Materia Medica

Aromatic, warm, releases the exterior, open the orifices (especially the nose), dries dampness; frequently used for wind-cold frontal headaches.* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Tonifies the Spleen qi, dries dampness, quiets the fetus.* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Tonifies the Spleen qi, dries dampness, quiets the fetus.* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Drains heat, resolves fire toxicity, cools the blood, benefits the throat.* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Dries dampness, transforms phlegm, and causes rebellious qi to descend, directs rebellious qi downward and stops vomiting, dissipates nodules and reduces clumps* - Bensky:  Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Clears heat toxin and dampness, relieves stasis, promote urination* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Cools and transforms phlegm-heat, disperses clumps, while also moistening the Lungs.* --Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Nourishes the yin, clears the Lungs, augments the Stomach, generates fluids.* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Expels dampness, especially from the lower burner, by separating the pure from the turbid.* - Bensky

Clears damp-heat from the Bladder; Promotes urination*

Tonifies the yin, subdues the yang, clears heat from deficiency, softens areas of hardness, disperses clumping*

Facilitates the dispersal of upper burner wind-heat, cools and clears the eyes and head, soothes the throat, facilitates the flow of Liver qi and expels turbid filth.* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Warmly tonifies the Kidneys and Spleen, stabilizes the essence, secures the urine, aids the Kidneys in grasping qi. - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medcine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Disperses wind, unblocks the orifiices, removes painful obstruction, eliminates damp qi from the skin.* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Dries dampness, induces sweating, strengthens the Spleen and Stomach, treats atrophy disorders from damp-heat in the lower burner, helps the vision.* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Cools heat, inhibits bleeding due to blood heat, stops cough - Bensky

Resolves lesser yang disorders and reduces fever; Spreads Liver qi and relieves constraint; Raises and lifts the yang qi; Restores harmony between the Liver and Spleen.*

Facilitates urination, separates the clear and turbid fluids, guides damp-heat downward and out of the body through the urine.* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Promotes the flow of qi, dries dampness.* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Promotes the movement of qi and alleviates pain; Directs rebellious qi downward and regulates the middle; Aids the Kidneys in grasping the qi.* - Bensky

Invigorates the blood, transforms stasis, stops pain, cools heat in the blood.* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Cools heat, regulates the qi, stops pain.* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Invigorates the blood, unblocks the menses, expels wind, drains dampness.* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Invigorates the blood, promotes the movement of qi, expels wind, stops pain (especially useful for headaches).* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Clears heat, resolves toxicity, promotes the resolution of dampness.* - Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Anchors and calms the spirit; Nourishes the Kidneys, augments the Liver, and improves hearing and vision; Aids the Kidneys in grasping the qi* - Bensky

Eliminates heat from both excess and deficiency in the blood; used for steaming bone disorder with sweating, and to cool the Lungs*

Purges clumped heat in the Intestines, cools the blood, removes blood stasis; in its charred from, can stop bleeding* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Strongly cools heat toxin or pathogenic heat in both the qi and blood levels.*

Clears heat, resolves toxicity, clears stasis* - Bensky:  Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica

Tonifies the qi and blood, generates fluids, harmonizes the Spleen, moderates the toxic effects of other herbs.* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Ascending, vents and disperses exterior pathogens, disseminates and disperses constrained heat above the diaphragm.* - Bensky

Clears heat, dissolves Phlegm, calms Wind.*

Invigorates the blood, tonifies the blood, calms irritability due to blood heat - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Leaches out dampness and facilitates urination; also treats irritability associated with heat.*

Tonifies the blood, invigorates the blood, regulates menstruation, alleviates pain* - Bensky:  Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Tonifies the middle burner, augments the Spleen and Lung qi* - Bensky:  Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Alleviates iching, removes damp-heat, unblocks painful urinary dribbling, clears wind-heat affecting the eyes and head. - Bensky:  Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica

Treats painful obstruction in the lower body, dispels lurking wind in the Kidney channel. - Bensky:  Chinese Herba Medicine Materia Medica

Tonifies the Liver and Kidneys, strengthens the sinews and bones, quiets the fetus. - Bensky:  Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica

Promotes the movement of blood and qi, breaks up accumulations, reduces food stagnation.* - Bensky:  Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica

Moderate, slightly warm, and less drying than most wind-expelling herbs;  used for all wind disorders;  treats dampness, and also diarrhea and pain in the bowels. - Bensky:  Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica*

Clears damp-heat, facilitates the fluid pathways - Bensky

Relieves constraint, regulates the qi, transforms phlegm, harmonizes the middle* - Bensky:  Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica

Tonifes the Spleen, eliminates dampness, calms the Heart spirit - Bensky

Augments the true yin of the Kidneys, contains the urine, secures the essence+ - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica

Revives the yang and rescues from rebellion; Warms the fire and assists the yang; Disperses cold, warms the channels.*

Calms the Heart spirit - Bensky:  Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica

Augments the Heart qi, inhibits the Heart fluids, clears heat from the pores and interstices, and thus stops spontaneous sweating and nightsweats* - Bensky:  Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica

Tonifes the middle, augments the Heart and Spleen qi, and harmonizes the properties of other herbs.* - Bensky:  Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica
 

Tonifies the Spleen qi, moistens the Lungs, moderates urgency and toxicity, drains fire - Bensky - Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica

Warms the Spleen, transforms thin mucus, unblocks the channels, revives the yang. -  Bensky:  Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica
 

Raises the clear yang qi of yang brightness, encourages the Stomach qi and thus releases muscle layer heat and vents rashes;  alleviates thirst by raising Stomach fluids, treats diarrhea* -  Bensky:  Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica
 

Enriches the yin of the Kidneys and Lung, Nourishes the Liver blood, mildly tonifies the Kidney yang* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica

Drains Liver heat, settles Liver wind* - Bensky:  Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica

Gently reduces food stagnation while strengthening the Spleen and improving the appetite. - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica

Cools and transforms phlegm-heat, moistens the Intestines, directs turbid phlegm downward.* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica

Cools and transforms phlegm-heat, faciliates the flow of qi in the chest, disperses constrained clumping.* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica

Light and warm, releases the muscle layer, unblocks yang qi, warms the middle. - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica

Stops bleeding, secures the essence, dries dampness, reduces gastric acidity*

Nourishes the blood and yin, preserves the essence. - Bensky:  Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica

Clears heat, resolves summerheat, raises clear yang - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica

Invigorates the blood, stops pain* - Bensky:  Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica

Regulates the qi and directs it downward, disperses fullness, dries dampness, reduces phlegm - Bensky:  Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica

Settles and calms the spirit, unblocks blood stagnation, facilitates urination* - Bensky:  Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica

Invigorates the blood, eliminates wind, expels dampness, transforms phlegm, cools heat, resolves toxicity* - Bensky:  Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed

Cools summerheat;  applied topically for damp-heat.* - Bensky:  Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed,

Directs fire downward, clears damp-heat in the lower burner* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Tonifies the qi, nourishes the yin, augments the essence* - Bensky:  Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Cools heat, drains fire (especially in the Heart and Stomach), dries dampness, resolves toxicity* -Bensky:  Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Raises the yang qi, tonifies the Spleen and Lung qi, stops sweating, facilitates urination, promotes the discharge of pus, generates flesh* -  Bensky:  Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Cools heat, dries dampness, stops bleeding, quiets the fetus in pregnancy.* - Bensky:  Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Enriches the yin fluids, moistens the Intestines, unblocks dry constipation.* - Bensky:  Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Releases the exterior, transforms dampness, harmonizes the middle, alleviates nausea* - Bensky

Acrid, such that it disperses, and bitter, such that it drains, Tribuli Fructus (ci ji li)

Reduces all types of food stagnation, stops enuresis, dissolves stones* - Bensky:  Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica

Invigorates the blood, tonifies the blood, soothes the sinews and invigorates the collaterals* - Bensky:  Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica

Treats food stagnation, promotes the flow of qi* - Bensky:  Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica

Dries dampness, transforms phlegm and causes rebellious qi to descend*

Eliminates wind, drains heat, transforms phlegm, disperses clumping* - Bensky:  Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica

Invigorates the blood, breaks up blood stasis, drives qi downward, treats wind-damp painful obstruction.*

Causes the qi and the actions of other herbs to rise, soothes the throat, releases the exterior, transforms phlegm, expels pus* - Bensky:  Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica

Clears heat, promote urination, unblocks urinary dribbling. - Bensky:  Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica

 Resolves toxicity by dispersing pathogenic heat and cooling heat in the Stomach and Lungs.*- Bensky:  Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica

Binds the lower burner in order to secure the essence, contains urination, halts chronic diarrhea.*- Bensky:  Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica

Releases the exterior and dispels wind, Vents rashes and alleviates itching, Stops bleeding.*

Regulates qi, opens the middle jiao, dries dampness, dissolves phlegm, and relieves food stagnations* - Chen

Disperses and clears wind-heat; Calms the Liver and clears the eyes; Calms the Liver and extinguishes wind; Resolves toxicity*. - Bensky

Disperses wind-fire to cool the eyes, moistens the Intestines, nourishes the Liver and Kidney yin, with both ascending and descending actions.* - Bensky:  Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Expels wind, stops itching, promotes urination* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed

Reduces phlegm and softens areas of hardess, promotes urination, eliminates edema.* --Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Transforms phlegm, reduces food stagnation, promotes the flow of qi in the Lungs, Spleen, and Large Intestine.* - Bensky:  Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Disperses qi stagnation and cold obstruction in the Liver channel.* - Bensky:  Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Cools and vents heat, particularly in the Heart and upper burner; resolves toxicity, disperses clumps. - Bensky

Tonifies and stabilizes the Spleen, Heart, and Kidneys; calms the spirit.* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Calms the spirit while augmenting the qi and nourishing the blood.* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Settles anxiety and calms the spirit;Calms the Liver and anchors and preserves the floating yang;Prevents leakage of fluids;Use topically for chronic, non-healing sores and ulcers.*

Warms the kidney and tonifies yang, astringes*

Invigorates the qi and blood, treats painful obstruction, facilitates urination*

Clears heat, resolves toxicity, eases the Intestines.*

Benefits the Stomach, generates fluids, and directs rebellious qi downward.

Reduces food stagnation due to starches and fruits, softens areas of hardness, improves the appetite.* - Bensky

Disperses wind and clears heat, Clears and benefits the head and eyes, Drains dampness and expels wind*

Nourishes the yin of the Liver and Kidneys, cools heat, stops bleeding, blackens the hair.

Breaks up blood stasis to stop pain, reduces swelling, generates flesh.*

Cools heat from either excess or deficiency, gently invigorates the blood without injuring the blood or yin, clears lurking fire from the blood.

Transforms dampness, harmonizes the Spleen and Stomach, alleviates cramping.*

Promotes the flow of qi, strengthens the Spleen and eliminates food stagnation.*

Nourishes the yin of the Lungs and Stomach, clears heat, generates fluids.* - Bensky:  Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Disperses heat in the exterior and clears internal heat toxin; benefits the throat, its cold and slippery properties facilitate bowel movements (unless fried) - Bensky*

Breaks up blood stasis, unblocks menstruation, guides blood to descend, direct fire downward - Bensky*

Tonifies the Liver and Kidney yin, clears heat, brightens the eyes, blackens the hair.* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed

Dispels middle burner turbid dampness, unbinds the Stomach, releases the exterior*

Directs qi downward*

Cools heat, resolves toxicity, directs downward, facilitates urination* - Bensky

Stops bleeding, removes blood stasis, promotes urination* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Stops bleeding, removes blood stasis, promotes urination* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Cools the blood, stops bleeding, removes blood stasis*

Tonifies and restrains the Spleen and Kidneys, while eliminating dampness.* - Bensky

Releases the exterior and disperses cold* --Bensky

Clears Liver and Gallbladder heat, and cools heat in the blood*

Directs downward, dredges the Liver, breaks up qi stagnation and clumping, harmonizes the Stomach.*

Cools heat, directs downward, invigorates the blood; leads heat and fire in the Heart and Small Intestine out through the urine.*

Strongly extinguishes Liver wind*

Tonifies the Kidney yang and augments the essence and blood; Moistens the Intestines and facilitates passage of stool.*

Warms and tonifies the yang, disperses cold, promotes the movement of blood.* - Bensky

Breaks up stagnation of both the qi and blood, disperses food stagnation, stops pain.*

Stops bleeding without causing blood stasis, transforms blood stasis, reduces swelling and stops pain.* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Drains the Lungs, especially heat in the Lungs; also drains fluids.* -Bensky

Tonifies the Liver and Kidneys, nourishes the yin and blood, expels wind-dampness, quiets the fetus in pregnancy;Promotes lactation*

Regulates and tonifies the Heart and Kidneys, stabilizes the essence, and stops leakage.*

Gently nourishes and cools the blood and yin. - Bensky:  Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed

Disperses wind-heat, cools and drains the Lungs and Liver.*

Promotes the flow of qi, warms the middle, transforms dampness, improves the appetite, calms the fetus.*

Clears heat, resolves fire toxicity*

Tonifes the qi and yin of the Lungs, Spleen, and Kidneys; secures the essence.*

Tonifies the Liver and Kidneys, harmonizes the blood and invigorates the collaterals. - Bensky*

Reduces food stagnation, especially from meat and greasy foods, invigorates the blood flow, alleviates diarrhea and dysentery. - Bensky

Reduces food stagnation, especially from meat and greasy foods, invigorates the blood flow, alleviates diarrhea and dysentery.* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Strongly warms the Kidney yang, dries dampness - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica

Dispels wind-dampness, relaxes the sinews, invigorates the collaterals* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Treats food stagnation, promotes the flow of qi, alleviates diarrhea.* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Enriches the yin, cools the blood, clears heat* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd.

Dispersing in nature, benefits the Stomach, transforms phlegm* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed

Raises yang qi, disperses heat, resolves toxicity*

This herb transforms dampness, strengthens the Spleen and Stomach, dislodges phlegm and opens the sensory orifices.* - Bensky

Acrid, sweet, and very cold, Gypsum Fibrosum (Shi Gao) enters the Lung and Stomach channels.

Cools Liver heat, anchors Liver yang, extinguishes Liver wind, nourishes Liver yin*

Cools the Lungs above, facilitates the Bladder below, halts bleeding due to heat - Bensky*

Nourishes the Heart, clears the spirit, unblocks the collaterals, expels wind.* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Tonifies the blood, enriches the yin, generates essence, augments the marrow - Bensky

Breaks up blood stasis, disperses stagnation*

Nourishes the Heart yin and Liver blood, promotes sleep, inhibits sweating* - Bensky

Warms the Kidney yang, nourishes the Liver and Kidney yin, strengthens the sinews to treat atrophy disorders, moistens the Intestines. - Bensky*

Tonifies the qi and yin, but rather weakly - Bensky

Tonifies the yin of the Lungs and Kidneys, generates fluids, cools heat due to yin deficiency - Bensky*

Cools heat, generates fluids, resolves toxicity, reduces swelling, invigorates the blood - Bensky*

Drains the Lungs, reduces Phlegm and calms wheezing; Circulates water and reduces edema*

Removes damp-heat, resolves toxicity, eases the joints.*

Tu Si Zi - Cuscuta (Seed)

Invigorates the blood, dissolves phlegm, and dissipates nodules; absorbs acid and alleviates pain*

Powerfully and rapidly invigorates the blood and disperses clumping and stasis*

Strongly mobilizes all twelve channels to unblock painful obstruction by dispelling wind, dampness, and phlegm, and to soften areas of hardness.*

Invigorates the Blood, dispels Blood Stasis and alleviates pain; Transforms Stasis and stops bleeding;  Treats childhood nutritional impairment; Eliminates toxins.*

Preserves the Lungs, binds up the Intestine, stops bleeding, generates fluids, quiets intestinal parasites.*

Wu Shao She (Jiu) Granules - Black Striped Snake (processed) Granules

Contains leakage of Lung qi, grasps the qi, enriches the Kidneys, nourishes the Liver, quiets the spirit, generates fluids - Bensky