Description

Properties:

sweet and salty in flavour, warm in nature, it is tropistic to the heart, lung and kidney channels. Being sweet, salty, warm and moist in nature and mild in action, it functions in strengthening yang, reinforcing essence and qi and nourishing blood, used as an excellent tonic. It, combined with other herbs, serves to treat syndromes of insufficiency of yin, yang, qi and blood. But owing to its mildness, the therapeutic effect will show up after a long period of administration.

Effects: strengthening yang, supplementing vital essence and qi and nourishing blood.

Indications:

1. For insufficiency of the liver and kidney, consumption of essence and blood, impotence, infertility due to cold sperm or deficiency-clod of the chong and ren meridians, and female infertility because of uterine coldness, it is often used together with yang-tonifying and essence-supplementing herbs, such as radix genseng, cornu cervi pantotrichum, herba fpimedii, radix rehmanniae praeparata, fructus corni, etc.

2. For deficiency of both the lung and kidney, failure of the kidney in holding breath, chronic cough and asthma of deficiency type, it can be used with herbs for tonifying the lung and kidney, helping in halation of breath and relieving asthma, such as radix genseng, cecko, semen juglandis, fructus psoraleae, etc.

3. For qi-deficiency or deficiency of both qi and blood, poor appetite, emaciation, lassitude, shallow complexion, dizzness, tinnitus, insomnia and dreaminess, it is often used with qi-and blood-tonifying herbs such as radix angelicae sinensis, radix astragali seu hedysari, rhizoma atractylodis macrocephalae, radix rehmanniae praeparata, etc.

Dosage and administration: 2-4g, ground into powder for oral administration, or used in bolus or compound powder.

This statement has not been evaluated by the food and drug administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Unless used under instructions by a licensed herbalist.