Chinese Wolfberry Root Bark

Traditional Use

Primary Actions

• Clears deficiency heat ... Di Gu Pi is a classic herb for steaming-bone fever, tidal heat, and warm depletion patterns where the body is exhausted yet internally smoldering.
• Clears Lung heat and stops cough ... it is used for lingering cough with heat or yin damage rather than for simple exterior wind-cold presentations.
• Cools the blood and supports wasting-thirst logic ... traditional use extends to heat injuring fluids, irritability, and thirst patterns associated with internal depletion.

Secondary Actions

• This page should stay clearly distinct from Gou Qi Zi ... the berry tonifies and nourishes, while the root bark clears hidden heat and cools.
• Di Gu Pi is often chosen when the patient looks deficient but still carries an interior heat signature ... one of the classic examples of treating heat without using a harsh detox herb.

Classic Formulas

• Qing Gu San ... classic deficiency-heat formula in which Di Gu Pi cools lingering fever from yin depletion.
• Di Gu Pi Yin and related Lung-heat cough logic ... used when cough and internal heat coexist.
• Wasting-thirst and yin-depletion formulas ... added when thirst, irritability, or smoldering heat complicate chronic weakness.

Classical References

• Materia medica tradition consistently describes Di Gu Pi as the root-bark counterpart to Gou Qi Zi ... same plant family, opposite direction of action.
• Its defining niche is deficiency heat and Lung heat ... not general tonic use and not an exterior-releasing cough herb.