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Yellowweed
Simplified Chinese: 千里光 Pinyin: qiān lǐ guāng
Qian li guang (yellowweed), literally thousand-mile light, is a herb that in legend enables people to see things a thousand miles away. Though not so magic, yellowweed is still a useful TCM herb that helps improve eyesight and relieves various acute inflammation problems.
The name of qian li guang came from a legend of two girls born with weak eyesight. The parents tried hundreds of way to improve their sight in vain. A 100-year-old man told them that the yellow flowers growing nearby might help the girls.
They boiled the yellow flowers in water and the herbal steam nourished the girls’ eyes as part of the treatment with the old man’s guidance. The girls’ sight quickly improved and it was said they were able to see things a thousand miles away.
Therefore, the yellow flower that granted them better sight is called qian li guang or thousand-mile light.
Yellowweed is a “cold” herb that travels through lung, liver and large intestine meridians. Both the flower and leaves can work in helping dispel pathogenic heat, improve eyesight and relieve itchiness. It is often prescribed for relieving acute inflammation and skin problems such as flu, diarrhea, eczema, tonsillitis, or even insect or snake bites. It can be used both orally and externally.
Prescriptions & Usage:
For eczema
• Oral application: Cook decoction with 20g dried yellowweed and 30g pearl barley. Drink one dose a day and keep drinking for 10-15 days.
• External application: Cook 50g fresh yellowweed and 15g kuh seng with water. Add 5g alum when the decoction cools down. Apply the decoction on the infected part once a day.
For eye swelling and ache
• Cook decoction with 9g dried yellowweed, 15g mother chrysanthemum, 9g xia ku cao (selfheal) and 6g liquorice.
• Nourish eyes with the decoction steam and then drink the decoction. Continue doing it once a day.
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