Medicine Traditions
  • Home
  • About
  • Resources
    • Brief Overview of Traditional Medicine
    • Timeline
    • Authors and Sources
    • Glossaries
    • Articles on Traditional Medicine
    • Photos
    • Medicine Pictures
    • Substitute Medicines
  • Theory
  • Materia Medica
    • Ayurvedic Materia Medica
    • Chinese Materia Medica
    • Tibetan Materia Medica
    • Unani Materia Medica
    • Materia Medica of Herbal Medicine FREE
    • Materia Medica of Herbal Medicine PRO >
      • *Symphytum, Comfrey
    • Animal Materia Medica
    • Mineral Materia Medica
    • Chinese Classification
    • Western Classification
    • Humoral Medicine
    • Herbal Combinations
  • Formulas
  • Treatment
    • Types of Treatment in Traditional Medicine
    • Treatment of Specific Conditions
    • Diseases and Formulas
  • Patient Resources
  • Links & Texts
  • Contact Us
  • Store
  • Blog
Sentry Page Protection
Please Wait...

Chrysosplenium, Gya kyi ma གྱའ་ ཀྱི་ མ་

Golden Saxifrage
Gya kyi ma (Tibet)
Luo Jing Jin Yao
裸茎金腰 (C. nudicaule) (TCM)
Jin Yao Zi 
金腰子 (C. chinense) (TCM)
Picture
Golden Saxifrage
(Probably Chrysosplenium oppositifolium)
Salmon, Botanologia, 1710

Picture
Chrysosplenium nudicaule
Ledebour, C.F. von, Icones plantarum novarum vel imperfecte cognitarum floram Rossicam (1834)

Botanical name:
Chrysosplenium spp.
Several species are used:
  1. C. nudicaule (Luo Jing Jin Yao)

  2. C. alternifolium (Jin Yao) – Alternate-leaved Golden-Saxifrage, found in Europe and Asia
  3. C.
oppositifolium – Opposite-leaved Golden-Saxifrage, found in Europe
  4. C. chinense (Ru Tu Jin Yao)
  5. C.
sinicum (Hua Jin Yao Zi)
  6. C. nepalense
(syn. C. yunnanense)
  7. C. japonicum (Ri Ben Jin Yao)
  8. C.
maximowiczii (Ma Shi Jin Yao)

Parts used:
Whole herb

Temperature & Taste:
Cold, dry. Bitter

Uses:
1. Clears Heat and Damp from the Liver and Gall Bladder:
-prevents, pacifies and purges all Bile disorders
-Headache, Hypochondriac pain, bitter taste in the mouth
-Jaundice, Hepatitis
-Cholecystitis, Gall Stones
-Urinary Tract Infections, Urinary Stones
-Diarrhea

2. Clears Wind and Heat:
-also for Wind-Heat Cold and Flu with Fever, Headache
-Epidemic and Febrile diseases


DOSE:
Powder: 2–5 grams
Decoction: 6–9 grams

Main Combinations:
1. Heat and Damp of the Liver, Chrysosplenium, Swertia, Picrorrhiza, Costus
2. Jaundice, Hepatitis, Gall Stones, Chrysosplenium with Artemisia Yin Chen Hao, Curcuma Yu Jin, Citrus Zhi Ke
3. Urinary Tract Infections, Chrysosplenium with Artemisia annua Qing Hao, Plantain seed (Che Qian Zi), Polygonum Bian Xu (TCM)
4. Urinary Stones, Chrysosplenium with Dianthus Qu Mai, Lysmachia Jin Qian Cao
5. Wind-Heat Cold and Flu, Chrysosplenium, Indian Bdellium, Tabsheer, Madder, Costus, Inula racemosa, Chebula, Swertia (as in Red Pony of Tibetan Medicine)

Major Formulas:
Aconite 13 (Bong dkar 13) (Tibetan Medicine)
Golden Felwort Pill (Gser Tig Ril Bu) (Tibetan Medicine)
Red Pony (Rta Zi Dmar Po) (Tibetan Medicine)

Cautions:
Cold, so not suitable for Cold and weakness of the Stomach.

Main Preparations used:

Home
ABOUT
RESOURCES

materia medica – FREE
Materia Medica – PRO
Classifications


Diseases & Formulas
Links & Texts
Patient Resources

Shop
Texts for Sale
Contact us

TERMS OF USE

PRIVACY POLICY

Copyright © 2015–2021
  • Home
  • About
  • Resources
    • Brief Overview of Traditional Medicine
    • Timeline
    • Authors and Sources
    • Glossaries
    • Articles on Traditional Medicine
    • Photos
    • Medicine Pictures
    • Substitute Medicines
  • Theory
  • Materia Medica
    • Ayurvedic Materia Medica
    • Chinese Materia Medica
    • Tibetan Materia Medica
    • Unani Materia Medica
    • Materia Medica of Herbal Medicine FREE
    • Materia Medica of Herbal Medicine PRO >
      • *Symphytum, Comfrey
    • Animal Materia Medica
    • Mineral Materia Medica
    • Chinese Classification
    • Western Classification
    • Humoral Medicine
    • Herbal Combinations
  • Formulas
  • Treatment
    • Types of Treatment in Traditional Medicine
    • Treatment of Specific Conditions
    • Diseases and Formulas
  • Patient Resources
  • Links & Texts
  • Contact Us
  • Store
  • Blog