Phragmites
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Other Names : Rhizoma Phragmitis, Phragmites communis, Reed root, Lu Gen
See also : Yin Qiao
Special Precautions of Phragmitis
This herb should be used with caution in cases with cold and deficient spleen and stomach.
Benefits and uses of Phragmitis are
Reed Root as herb can clear heat fire,promote fluid production to quench thirst,relieve fidgetness and arrest vomiting.
- Clears heat, generates fluids - heat patterns with high fever, irritability, thirst.
- Clears lung heat - cough, thick yellow sputum.
- Clears stomach heat - vomiting, belching.
- Clears heat, diuretic - dark, scanty urine, xue lin, accompanied by thirst and irritability.
- Encourages rashes to the surface - for febrile disease with rashes that are incompletely expressed.