Lycium Cortex, Di Gu Pi 地骨皮
Chinese Wolfberry root-bark
Di Gu Pi (TCM)
Lycium chinense
Duhamel du Monceau, H.L., Traité des arbres et arbustes, Nouvelle édition (1800-1803)
Lycium Di Gu Pi
(Adam, 2025)
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Botanical name:
Lycium chinense, L. barbarum
Parts used:
Root-bark
Temperature & Taste:
Cool, dry. Sweet
Classification:
Uses:
1. Cools the Blood, Clears Deficient-Heat:
-clears Kidney heat
-Steaming Bone disorder; Heat in the bones, especially at night
-‘Wasting and Thirsting Disorder’, overlaps Diabetes
-Night-sweats, Irritability, Thirst
-Chronic Low Grade Fever; Hectic Fever
-‘Floating Fire’, deficient-Heat that rises to cause Toothache
2. Clears Lung Heat, Stops Cough:
-Lung Heat Cough, Wheezing
-Bronchitis
3. Externally:
-in washes for Genital Itching
Main Combinations:
1. Deficient Heat, Steaming Bone Disorder:
i. Lycium Cortex Di Gu Pi with … available in PRO version
ii. Lycium Cortex Di Gu Pi with … available in PRO version
iii. Lycium Cortex Di Gu Pi with … available in PRO version
iv. Fever of Consumtpion, Lycium Cortex Di Gu Pi with … available in PRO version
v. Lycium Cortex Di Gu Pi with, … available in PRO version
vi. Lycium Cortex Di Gu Pi with … available in PRO version
vii. rising Heat burning the Fluids, Lycium Cortex Di Gu Pi with … available in PRO version
viii. deficient Fever of Tuberculosis, Lycium Cortex Di Gu Pi with … available in PRO version
ix. Deficient Fever or ‘Steaming Bone Disorder’ in Children, Lycium Cortex Di Gu Pi with … available in PRO version
2. Wasting and Thirsting, Diabetes, Lycium Cortex Di Gu Pi with … available in PRO version
3. Lung Heat Cough:
i. Lycium Cortex Di Gu Pi with … available in PRO version
ii. Lycium Cortex Di Gu Pi with … available in PRO version
iii. Lung-Heat Asthma, rapid Breathing, Lycium Cortex Di Gu Pi, … available in PRO version
4. Early periods from Blood heat Lycium Cortex Di Gu Pi with … available in PRO version
5. As a wash for Genital Itching, Lycium Cortex Di Gu Pi with … available in PRO version
Cautions:
Generally safe. It has very low toxicity.
Caution in Cold and Weakness of the Stomach
