Gu Jing Cao: Just a bunch of little eyeballs
The Pipewort Flower, Gu Jing Cao, is mostly noted for one thing and it is easy to remember because the little flower heads look like tiny eyeballs. (Well, sort of, they actually look more like cheerios, but thinking of them as eyeballs makes the function easier to remember.) So, you take this herb because you have wind heat in the Liver channel, which has traveled to the eyes causing them to be red and swollen. There are not contraindications because this herb is neutral. It also travels to the stomach channel and its neutrality, like Sweden, causes no upset there.
Secondarily, it can be used for wind-heat inspired toothache, headache, or throat painful obstruction. It is light in nature so travels up to care for these head problems.
A hot and windy day - and the tea towel even has little flowers on it! Let's pretend they're Gu Jing Cao!Contraindication and a Big Fat Question:
However, if your eye disease is due to deficient Liver blood, it is contraindicated. I imagine this is because deficient Liver blood can cause wind to easily be generated...? That actually is not making any sense to me. Can someone clarify why an herb good with clearing wind-heat issues would not be good with internal wind issues?
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