Traditional Chinese Medicine/Fu Ping

Name Means:

• Fu-Float
• Ping-Duckweed

English Name:

• spirodela
• duckweed

Chinese Name:

• 浮萍 (Pinyin: fú píng)

Latin Name:

• Herba Lemnae Seu Spirodelae

Taste & Temperature:

• Xin-Spicy
• Han-Cold

Channels:

• Foot Tai Yang of Urinary Bladder
• Hand Tai Yin of Lung

Actions & Indications:

• disperse Wind-Heat (Spicy & Cool)

Contraindication:

• Qi & Yin deficiency causing excessive sweating

Caution:

• Yin syndrome
• Blood deficiency
• chronic skin infection

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