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Gomphrena, Qian Ri Hong 千日红

Globe Amaranth
Qian Ri Hong (TCM)
Amlana (Ayurveda)

Picture
Gomphrena globosa
Descourtilz, M.E., Flore [pittoresque et] médicale des Antilles (1821-1829)

Picture
Gomphrena globosa
(Photo by Carl Lewis) (Wikimedia)

Botanical name:
Gomphrena globosa

Parts used:
Flowering tops or Whole Herb

Temperature & Taste:
Neutral. Sweet, slightly Salty

Uses:
1. Stops Cough and Wheezing:
-Cough, Whooping Cough, Acute and Chronic Bronchitis
-Wheezing, Bronchial Asthma
-Hemoptysis from Pulmonary Tuberculosis
-Night Coughing in Children

2. Clears Liver Heat, Brightens the Eyes:
-Red, Sore Eyes from Liver Heat
-Blurred Vision
-Dizziness, Headache
-Hypertension
-Night Crying and Restlessness in Infants, Infantile Convulsions

3. Clears Heat, Resists Poison:
-Infantile Fever
-Dysentery
-Toxic Sores and Boils
-Seborrheic dermatitis
-Scrofula

4. Used for Diabetes:
-decoction of the leaves has been used for Diabetes (Bangladesh)

5. Externally:
-Boils, Sores, Swelling, Inflammation and Pain (decoction as a wash)
-decoction as a wash for Bruising


DOSE:
In Decoction: 9–15 grams
For Children, often 7–14 flowers is used in Infusion or Brief Decoction

Main Combinations:
1. Headache, Gomphrena with Vervain (Jiangxi "Handbook of Herbal Medicine")
2. Asthma, decoct the herb, add some rice wine and take
3. Childhood Epilepsy, Gomphrena 10 flowers with 7 Grasshoppers.
4. Night crying or restlessness in infants, or for Sore, Red Eyes, Gomphrena with Chrysanthemum

Major Formulas:


Cautions:
None noted

Main Preparations used:

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