Description

DESCRIPTION:Occuring in irregular slices and pieces, broken lumps, varying in size and thickness. Externally jet-black, lustrous, more sticky. Texture soft and flexible, uneasily broken, fracture jet-black, lustrous. Odourless; taste, sweet.

ACTION:To nourish yin and replenish blood, reinforce the essence of life and marrow.

INDICATIONS: yin deficiency of liver and kidney, aching and weakness of the loins and knees, hectic fever and bone-heat, night sweat, emission, palpitation, menoxenia, uterine bleeding, dizziness, tinnitus, white hair and beard in young age.

REFERENTIAL ADVICE:1. Nourishing blood to regulate menstruation.In treating dizziness, palpitation, metrorrhagia, metrostaxis, irregular menstruation etc. due to deficiency of blood in the heart and liver, the herb can be used in combination with Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Rhizoma Dioscoreae, Rhizoma Ligustici Chuanxiong, etc.2. Nourishing the kidney to replenish Yin:In treating hectic fever, afternoon fever, spontaneous sweating, seminal emission, lassitude of the low back and knee, diabetes, etc. due to deficiency of the kidney-Yin, the herb is often used in combination with Fructus Corni, Rhizoma Dioscoreae or Rhizoma Anemarrhenae, Plastrum Testudinis, etc.

TIPS:The herb is thick and sticky in nature and is likely to generate dampness and disturb the normal function of the stomach. Therefore, it is contraindicated for those with deficiency of the spleen and presence of dampness, or with profuse sputum and stasis of Qi.

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. Always used this herb under instructions of a licensed herbalist.