She Mei - 蛇莓 - Herba Duchesnea E Indicae

Pharmaceutical Latin:	Herba Duchesneae Indicae
Common English:	Indian Strawberry Snake Strawberry

Properties

Taste	Temperature	Entering Meridians	Dosage
Sweet Bitter Sour	Cold Slightly Toxic	Lung Large Intestine Liver	9-15g Fresh: 30-60g

Actions	Indications/Syndromes
Breaks up clots, Clears Heat, Cools the Blood, Removes toxicity, Resolves swelling	Fever, sore throat, cough, dysentery, sores and boils, abscesses, weeping eczema, ringworm, snake and insect bites, hematemesis, stomatitis, laryngitis, acute tonsillitis, enteritis, diphtheria, cervical scrofula, burn, scald, traumatic injuries, epilepsy and convulsions

CONTRAINDICATIONS

INCOMPATIBILITIES

HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

Fr. Mume Wu Mei	Hb. Taraxaci Pu Gong Ying Millet Wine
Blend in 60ml of the juice and drink 3 times a day	For unpyogenic lesions, pound the ingredients into a juice and mix with 60m of the wine. Drink the liquid and apply the dregs to the lesion

An appropriate quantity of the fresh plant can be crushed for External application, or decocted and used to bathe the affected areas.
Pain from scalds and burns is relieved instantly by this herb.
Sipping the juice of the herb can treat aphthae and acute skin diseases.
It may be pounded and applied topically to lesions.
For carbuncle of the head, mammary abscess, back sores and furuncles, it is freshly pounded with honey and applied to the lesion.
For a lesion that has not formed pus, pound the herb with Hb. Taraxaci Pu Gong Ying into a juice, blend it with 30g of millet wine and take it orally, then apply the dregs to the lesion.
Its focus is the chest and abdomen.
Studies have shown that it inhibits cancer cell growth.
For various cancers, 9-30g is decocted.
For External Wind-Heat complicated by boils, take 60ml of the herb's juice blended with Fr. Mume Wu Mei, drinking it twice a day.