Blue Poppy: Dao Chi San

Dao Chi San

Product #: GNDC117

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Dao Chi San(Guide out the Red Powder)

This formula comes fromthe Song Dynasty text The Key to the Therapeutics of Children's Diseases (Xiao Er Yao Zheng Zhi Jue) by Qian Yi. Our version is a 7:1 concentrated extract in a 750mg caplet.

Supplement Facts

Serving Size: 3 Caplets - Servings per Container: 30

When the heart channel has heat, heart fire follows the channel to flame upwards and damages yin, causing vexing heat in the heart and chest, thirst and red face, and sores of the mouth and tongue. If heart fire spreads to the small intestine, there will be reddish, hot, and painful urination. Because the pathomechanisms involved include heart fire flaming upward and damaging kidney water, as well as heart fire spreading downward into the small intestine and inhibiting the waterways, the suitable treatment is to clear the heart and foster yin while disinhibiting water and abducting heat to move downward.



Sheng di huang (Rehmanniae Radix) is the sovereign because it cools the blood and enriches yin to control heart fire.  Mu tong (Akebiae Caulis) clears heat from the heart channel in the upper body. In the lower body, it abducts small intestine fire downward; it disinhibits water and frees strangury.  Zhu ye is often considered as dan zhu ye (lophatherum), but was quite likely originally zhu ye (black bamboo leaf) at the time of the source text. It clears the heart and eliminates vexation while freeing urination; thus, it helps to abduct heat.  Raw gan cao shao (fine licorice root, Glycyrrhizae Radix Tenuis) is the courier because it harmonizes all the medicinals, and it is an assistant because it directly relieves the pain of strangury while also clearing heat and resolving toxin.

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Our herbs are carefully selected by experts trained in traditional herbal quality discernment, and we rely upon a stable network of GAP farms and trusted wholesalers for all of our raw materials. An in-house sourcing expert at our manufacturing facility evaluates the herbs with both traditional assessment techniques and modern methods incorporating TLC and HPLC, and our own on-staff herbal expert Eric Brand personally travels to China to verify their authenticity and quality.

Blue Poppy products undergo one of the most comprehensive testing regimes in the industry. We are the only company in the industry to use a third-party certified FDA cGMP manufacturing facility in conjunction with third-party lab testing for every batch of every formula. We test every formula for microbiologic contaminants, heavy metals and pesticide residue.

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