Individual Herbs Notebook

She Xiang Cao

Pharmaceutical: Herba Thymi
Taxonomy: Thymus Vulgaris

Other names: Thyme

Category: Herbs that Release the Exterior



Properties: Warm-cool, aromatic, acrid slightly bitter

Meridans Entered:
Primary: Lung, Kidney, Bladder, Heart, Spleen, Large Intestine, Small Intestine


Traditional Actions/Indications:
  1. Disperses Lung Qi, clears retained pathogens
    Recurring respiratory and/or urinary infections
    Weakened immune system
  2. Transform Phlegm and relieve cough and wheezing
    Nasopharygeal and/or bronchial phlegm
    Cough or whooping cough
  3. Regulate Spleen Qi
    Digestive weakness with flatulent colic
    Dyspepsia, chronic gastritis, H. Pylori infection, diarrhoea in children
  4. Clear Damp-Heat from the Bladder and regulate Bladder Qi
    Recurrent urinary infections
    Enuresis
  5. Calm the Shen, alleviate fear
    Nightmares, nervous fear in children, mental lethagy
  6. Regulate the Uterus
    Amenorrhoea, dysmenorrhoea

Suggested Daily Dosage: 3-12g in decoction.


Notes: Also known as Bai Li Xiang. This is not a traditional Chinese herb but an addition from the western pharmacopoea. Information was not available on standard sources (American Dragon, TCMwiki, Bensky or Chen & Chen) so was taken from Ross, J. (2010), Combining Western Herbs and Chinese Medicine, A Clinical Materia Medica: 120 Herbs in Western Use.


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