Shi Di - 柿蒂 - Calyx Kaki

Pharmaceutical Latin:	Calyx Kaki
Common English:	Diospyros Kaki Persimmon Calyx

Category

Herbs that Regulate Qi

Properties

Taste	Temperature	Entering Meridians	Dosage
Bitter Astringent (Acrid)	Neutral (Warm)	Lung Stomach	3-12g Tincture: 2-3ml

Actions And Indications

Actions	Indications/Syndromes
Descends Qi and stops hiccups	Stomach dysfunction with belching, or hiccup Treats both Hot and Cold patterns with additional appropriate herbs

Contraindications, Incompatibilities And Herb/Drug Interactions

Major Combinations

Flos Caryophylli Ding Xiang Rz. Zingiberis Recens Sheng Jiang	Rz. Phragmitis Lu Gen Caulis Bambusae in Taeniam Zhu Ru	Flos Caryophylli Ding Xiang
Hiccups and vomiting due to Stomach Cold	Belching and vomiting due to Stomach Heat	Stops hiccup and reduces vomiting due to Stomach Cold Treats hiccup due to a combin-ation of Heat and Cold
Sm. Juglandis Hu Tao Ren	Rx. Codonopsis Dang Shen Rx. Ginseng Ren Shen Rz. Atractylodis Macrocephalae Bai Zhu
Simultaneously tonifies the Lungs and Kidneys	Hiccups in the elderly or due to Deficiency

Notes

1. The ripe fruit is used to treat thirst, cough and spitting of Blood.
2. Nausea and vomiting are also treated by this herb.
3. Persimmon Frost, Manosum Kaki, Kaki Saccharum (the white powder on the cake) Shi Shuang, (Kaki Cake Shi Shuang Bing) is sweet, cool and moist and enters the Lung and Heart channels. It treats dry cough from Lung Heat, dry sore throat, dry mouth, tongue ulcers, spitting blood, hematemesis, hematuria, hernia, wasting and thirsting, and dysentery.
4. Kaki Siccatus succus, the juice extracted from the unripe fruit, is used for hypertension, bleeding, hemorrhoids and constipation.
5. Eating the ripe fruit helps with thirst, cough and spitting of Blood.