Root of Przewalsk Gentian

Traditional Use

Primary Actions

• Clears Liver and Gallbladder fire ... Long Dan Cao is the classic bitter-cold gentian root for red hot upward patterns with irritability, dizziness, headache, and fire blazing through the upper body.
• Dries damp-heat in the lower burner ... it is used for bitter heat patterns involving the genital or urinary tract, foul discharge, painful urination, or constrained damp-heat below.
• Resolves heat-toxin patterns linked to intense internal fire ... the herb is sometimes extended to mouth sores, inflamed swelling, or fire-driven irritability when the pattern is clearly excessive.

Secondary Actions

• This record stays on the imported Przewalsk-gentian identity and should not collapse into the already-live Qin Jiao pages, which belong to a different gentian medicinal lane.
• Direct literature on Gentiana nubigena itself is sparse, so the traditional profile here follows the broader Long Dan Cao gentian-root tradition while keeping the species identification explicit.

Classic Formulas

• Long Dan Xie Gan Tang ... the canonical damp-heat and Liver-Fire formula built around Long Dan Cao.
• Dang Gui Long Hui Wan ... heavy fire-draining formula where Long Dan Cao helps cool raging Liver and Gallbladder heat.
• Lower-burner damp-heat prescriptions paired with Huang Qin, Zhi Zi, and Che Qian Zi ... common formula logic when bitter-cold drainage is needed.

Classical References

• Traditional herbology consistently places Long Dan Cao among the strongest bitter-cold roots for clearing Liver and Gallbladder fire.
• The root is classically reserved for real excess heat and damp-heat rather than deficiency, fragility, or cold digestive states.