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Perilla, Perilla leaf, Zi Su Ye 紫苏叶

Perilla leaf
Zi Su Ye (TCM)
Picture
Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, vol. 50 (1823)


Botanical name:
Perilla frutescens

Parts used:
Leaf

Temperature & Taste:
Warm, dry. Pungent

Classification:
A. Clear Exterior Wind-Cold

Uses:
1. Clears Wind-Cold, Resists Poison:
-Cold, Flu with Cough
-acute Cough with Cold-Phlegm
-Fish or Crab poisoning

2. Moves the Qi, Harmonises the Stomach:
-Nausea, Vomiting

3. Calms the Fetus:
-Restless Fetus, Morning Sickness


DOSE:
5–9 grams in decoction

Main Combinations:
1. Morning Sickness:
i. from Cold-Damp, with fresh Ginger
ii. from Heat, with Coptis Huang Lian
2. Fullness in the Chest or Abdomen from Qi stagnation and Damp, with Amomum Sha Ren, Citrus Chen Pi
3. Seafood Poisoning, with fresh Ginger
4. Cold, Influenza:
i. from Wind-Cold-Damp, with Pogostemon Huo Xiang
ii. with productive Cough, with Platycodon Jie Geng


Cautions:
1. Exterior Conditions (Cold, Flu) with excess Sweating
2. Acute Heat diseases (Infectious Diseases) with Fever

Main Preparations used:

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