Chrysosplenium, Gya kyi ma གྱའ་ ཀྱི་ མ་

Golden Saxifrage
Gya kyi ma (Tibet)
Luo Jing Jin Yao 裸茎金腰 (C. nudicaule) (TCM)
Jin Yao Zi  金腰子 (C. chinense) (TCM)
Picture Golden Saxifrage
(Probably Chrysosplenium oppositifolium)
Salmon, Botanologia, 1710

Picture Picture Picture
Chrysosplenium nudicaule
Ledebour, C.F. von, Icones plantarum novarum vel imperfecte cognitarum floram Rossicam (1834)

 Chrysosplenium alternifolium
Bonelli, G., Hortus Romanus juxta Systema Tournefortianum (1772-1793)

 Chrysosplenium oppositifolium
Sturm, J., Sturm, J.W., Deutschlands flora (1798-1855)
Picture Chrysosplenium alternifolium
(Photo by Юрій Приходько) (Wikimedia)

Botanical name:


Chrysosplenium spp.
Several species are used:
  1. C. nudicaule (Luo Jing Jin Yao)
  2. C. alternifolium (Jin Yao) – Alternate-leaved Golden-Saxifrage, found in Europe and Asia
  3. C. oppositifolium – Opposite-leaved Golden-Saxifrage, found in Europe
  4. C. chinense (Ru Tu Jin Yao)
  5. C. sinicum (Hua Jin Yao Zi)
  6. C. nepalense (syn. C. yunnanense)
  7. C. japonicum (Ri Ben Jin Yao)
  8. C. maximowiczii (Ma Shi Jin Yao)

Parts used:


Whole herb

Temperature & Taste:


Cold, dry. Bitter

Uses:


1. Clears Heat and Damp from the Liver and Gall Bladder:
-prevents, pacifies and purges all Bile disorders
-Headache, Hypochondriac pain, bitter taste in the mouth
-Jaundice, Hepatitis
-Cholecystitis, Gall Stones
-Urinary Tract Infections, Urinary Stones
-Diarrhea

2. Clears Wind and Heat:
-also for Wind-Heat Cold and Flu with Fever, Headache
-Epidemic and Febrile diseases
-also for Insanity


Dose:


Powder: 2–5 grams
Decoction: 6–9 grams

Substitute:


Leaf of Arctostaphylos uva–ursi in Buryat

Main Combinations:


1. Heat and Damp of the Liver, Chrysosplenium, Swertia, Picrorhiza, Costus
2. Jaundice, Hepatitis, Gall Stones, Chrysosplenium with Artemisia Yin Chen Hao, Curcuma Yu Jin, Citrus Zhi Ke
3. Urinary Tract Infections, Chrysosplenium with Artemisia annua Qing Hao, Plantain seed (Che Qian Zi), Polygonum Bian Xu (TCM)
4. Urinary Stones, Chrysosplenium with Dianthus Qu Mai, Lysmachia Jin Qian Cao
5. Wind-Heat Cold and Flu, Chrysosplenium, Indian Bdellium, Tabsheer, Madder, Costus, Inula racemosa, Chebula, Swertia (as in Red Pony of Tibetan Medicine)

Major Formulas:


Aconite 13 (Bong dkar 13) (Tibetan Medicine)
Golden Felwort Pill (Gser Tig Ril Bu) (Tibetan Medicine)
Red Pony (Rta Zi Dmar Po) (Tibetan Medicine)

Cautions:


Cold, so not suitable for Cold and weakness of the Stomach.

Main Preparations used:



1. A review of the genus Chrysosplenium as a traditional Tibetan medicine and its preparations.