Ju Hua - 菊花 - Flos Chrysanthemi - Chrysanthemum Flower
| Pharmaceutical Latin: | Flos Chrysanthemi |
| Common English: | Chrysanthemum Flower |
Category
Herbs that Release the Exterior: Cool, Acrid Herbs that Release the Exterior (Wind-Heat Diaphoretics)Properties
| Taste | Temperature | Entering Meridians | Dosage |
| Sweet Bitter (Acrid) | Slightly Cold (Cool) | Lung Liver | 4.5-20g Tincture: 2-5ml 4.5-15g (Secondary source) |
Actions And Indications
| Actions | Indications/Syndromes |
Disperses Wind and clears Heat | Wind-Heat from a common Cold or Warm pathogen disease |
Calms the Liver and clears the eyes | Dry, swollen and/or painful eyes due to Wind-Heat in the Liver channel or Liver Yang Rising Spots in front of the eyes, blurred vision or dizziness due to Kidney and Liver Yin Deficiencies Liver and Kidney Yin Deficiencies with heatstroke |
Calms Liver Yang and extinguishes Wind | Liver Wind with dizziness, headache and deafness Liver Yang Rising (Liver and Kidney Yin Deficiency) Hypertension |
Detoxifies (purifies Blood) | Toxic sores and swellings |
Promotes the movement of Heart Qi and Blood and stimulates Blood circulation | Heart Qi and Blood Stagnation |
Contraindications, Incompatibilities And Herb/Drug Interactions
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Major Combinations
| Hb. Menthae | Rx. Saposhnikoviae | Rz. Chuanxiong |
Wind-Heat patterns with fever, chills, headache, dizziness, sore eyes and sore throat. Liver Qi Stagnation turning to Liver Fire Flaring upward with blurred vision, dizziness, headache and red, swollen eyes. (use Bai Ju Hua) | Wind-Heat irritating the Exterior with slight chills, mild fever, headache and itchy eyes. | Headache due to Wind-Heat or Liver Yang Rising. |
Periostracum Cicadae | Fol. Mori | Fol. Mori |
Superficial visual obstruction and red, watery, swollen, painful eyes due to Liver Heat from either Wind-Heat or Liver Yang Rising. Residual Heat toxin remaining from measles or other rashes. Superficial visual obstruction from trauma. | Wind-Heat. | Wind-Heat with fevers. |
Fr. Lycii | Rx. Paeoniae Alba | Ram. cum Uncis Uncariae |
Dizziness and blurred vision due to Liver and Kidney Yin Deficiency. | Headache, vertigo, and dizziness due to Liver Yang Rising. Seizures and convulsions in children due to Liver Wind. | Liver Yang Rising with dizziness, vertigo, and blurred vision. |
Per. Cicadae | Flos Lonicerae | Fr. Lycii |
Wind-Heat in the Liver Channel or Liver Fire with red, swollen, painful eyes. | Colorless, painless, flat, slow-healing suppurative inflammation of the soft tissues and other toxic swellings. | Liver and Kidney Deficiency with Jing and Blood unable to rise and nourish the eyes. Liver Yang or Liver Wind Rising. |
Rz. et Rx. Notopterygii | Ram. cum Uncis Uncariae | Rx. Isatidis Or Rx. Sophorae Tonkinensis |
Headache. | Headaches due to Liver Wind with Yin Deficiency Fire. | Wind-Heat with a sore throat. |
Fr. Lycii | Rx. Rehmanniae | Flos Buddlejae |
Blurred vision and dizziness due to Liver and Kidney Yin Deficiencies. | Near-sightedness. | Superficial visual obstruction. |
Fr. Tribuli | Rx. Glycyrrhizae | |
Visual disturbances with dizziness and headache due to Liver Yang Rising. | Topically for sores, carbuncles and abscesses of the skin. |
Notes
- Compared with other varieties, White Chrysanthemum Bai Ju Hua is better at nourishing the Liver and clearing the eyes. Its most common use is for weakened vision from Kidney and Liver Yin Deficiencies.
- Yellow Chrysanthemum Huang Ju Hua is stronger at dispersing Wind-Heat, draining Fire and resolving toxicity. It is most frequently used for red eyes and headache from Wind-Heat.
- People with Wind-Heat or Blood Heat can drink it as a beverage.
- Combined with other herbs, it can be used to treat brain cancer.
- It is regarded as one of the best remedies for Wind-Heat.
- It is among the top twelve remedies for systemic hypertension and coronary disease.
- It is able to ascend or descend, and to drain or tonify.
- Compared with Fol. Mori Sang Ye, Ju Hua tonifies the Lungs and Kidneys and is stronger at calming the Liver and brightening the eyes. Its mild toxin-resolving ability lets it treat toxic swellings, boils and furuncles. Sang Ye is outstanding at calming Liver Wind and disseminating Lung Qi. It spreads and disperses more strongly than Ju Hua, and it can moisten the Lungs, stop coughs, cool the Blood and stop bleeding.
- When the Spleen and Stomach are weak, dry-fried Chrysanthemum Flower Chao Ju Hua is used to calm the Liver and clear the eyes.
- Charred Chrysanthemum Flower Ju Hua Tan enters the Blood, settling Wind and quieting the Blood. For dizziness, tinnitus and eyeball pain from Blood Deficiency Generating Wind, it is commonly combined with Rx. Polygoni Multiflori Preparata Zhi He Shou Wu, Ligustri Lucidi Nu Zhen Zi, Fr. Tribuli Ci Ji Li and Fr. Lycii Gou Qi Zi.
- Because the plant blooms in autumn, it treats Wind.
- White Chrysanthemum Bai Ju Hua calms the Liver and extinguishes Liver Wind.
- Wild Chrysanthemum Ye Ju Hua is used to relieve toxicity.
- Dui Yao pair with Sang Ye: for Wind-Heat with fever, aversion to Wind, light sweating, cough, headache and slight thirst, and for headache, vertigo, photophobia and red, swollen, painful eyes from Liver Yang Rising. Used together in Sang Ju Yin.
From Class
- Heat-clearing yet moistening herbs: Ju Hua, Sang Ye, Bo He, Sheng Di, Zhi Mu, Lu Gen: Heat-clearing yet moistening herbs reverse the heat→dryness→phlegm→wind progression in neurology; Ju Hua and Sang Ye also clear external wind and go to the eyes. (Shea)