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Gentiana tibetica, Kyi lce ཀྱི་ལྕེ

Kyi lce  ཀྱི་ལྕེ  
Kyi lce dkar po (White)  ཀྱི་ལྕེ་དཀར་པོ  
Kyi lce nag po (Black)  ཀྱི་ལྕེ་ནག་པོ  

Kyi lce dngon po (Blue)  ཀྱི་ལྕེ་དངོན་པོ  
Trayamana (Ayurveda)

Xi Zang Qin Jiao  西藏秦艽 (G. tibetica) (TCM)
Tian Shan Qin Jiao  天山秦艽 (G. tianschanica) (TCM)
Picture
Genitana tibetica
Curtis’s Botanical Magazine (1897)

Picture
Gentian Flower for sale at the Chengdu Medicine Market (Adam, 2018)

Botanical name:
Gentiana spp.
2 varieties of the plant are used:
  1. Kyi lce dkar po (White variety): G. straminea, G. tibetica, G. robusta, G. tianschanica
  2. Kyi lce nag po ('Black variety'): G. crassicaulis, G. dahurica, G. hexaphylla, G. macrophylla
  3. Kyi lce dngon po ('Blue variety'): Gentiana spp.

G. macrophylla (Qin Jiao of TCM) is used as a source for Kyi lce.

Parts used:
Flowers

Temperature & Taste:
Cool, dry. Bitter

Uses:
1. Clears Heat and Damp:
-excess Bile; Hepatitis, Gastritis
-Fever of the Hollow organs
-Inflamed Joints

2. Clears Liver Heat:
-Liver Fever
-Red eyes, Headache

3. Clears Swellings, Resists Poison:
-Swellings, Scrofula
-Diphtheria
-Leprosy
-Fever from Poison


DOSE:
2–6 grams in Decoction
1–3 grams in Powder

COMMENT:
1. These are the large-leafed Gentians, similar to Gentiana Qin Jiao of TCM. G. macrophylla, the source of Qin Jiao, may also be used as a source for the Flowers.
2. The roots of several of the above species are used as source for the Chinese drug Qin Jiao (root).
3. The Black type is better for drying Lymph, so is preferred fro Swellings, Swollen limbs, and infectious Swellings.
4. The White type if better for clearing Heat and Poison.

SUBSTITUTE:
1. Swertia
2. G. macrophylla, the source of the root for Qin Jiao, can be used as a source of the flowers

Main Combinations:
1. Liver heat, combine with Chrysanthemum

Major Formulas:


Cautions:
None noted

Main Preparations used:

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