Along with Mu Dan Pi, Di Gu Pi is very hard for me to remember. Di Gu Pi doesn't look like anything familiar either. I guess a little like very pale and flaky cinnamon chocolate? Well, it's sweet anyway, and really just looks like a bunch of dirty sticks. Di Gui Pi is deficient in looking like much of anything, but it sounds kind of poetic anyway.
Di Gu Pi is also in the Clear Deficient Heat category (along with Bai Wei and Qing Hao) in the H.B. Kim book.
Emily said a good way to remember it is that it de-goups the lungs. It does go to the Lungs, as well as the Liver, and the Kidneys (deficient heat). In the lungs, Di Gu Pi clears and drains lung heat, stopping coughing and wheezing. Through the Kidney channel, Di Gu Pi cools the blood and reduces steaming which can cause nightsweats, steaming bone, chronic low-grade fever, irritability, thirst, and toothaches!
Apparently, fire can float in the kidney channel and cause toothaches.
See the fire above? It is actually floating up the kidney channel causing this toothache!
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