Chinese Wolfberry Root Bark … Classic Formulas
Di Gu Pi · Cortex Lycii Radicis
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.
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 Text 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.