Properties:
The drug is sweet in flavour, neutral in nature, and acts
on the spleen, stomach and urinary bladder channels. It
has the strongest effect of relieving stagnated food, and
can strengthen the spleen and stomach. Therefore, the drug
can be used to treat various kinds of food retention,
spleen deficiency, anorexia and other syndromes. In
addition, with its astringing effect it can also be used
to treat spermatorrhea and frequent urination.
Effects:
Relieving food retention, strengthening the stomach and
spermatorrhea.
Indications:
1. To treat
indigestion caused by all kinds of stagnation of rice,
flour and meat, or to treat weakness of the spleen and
stomach and anorexia, it can be ground into powder and
mixed with water for oral medication, or used in
combination with other herbs for relieving food retention
and increasing appetite.
2. The drug can be
used in combination with dogwood fruit, lotus seed, dodder
seed and other herbs for tonifying the kidney and
controlling nocturnal spermatorrhea to treat spermatorrhea
due to deficiency of the kidney; and with Chinese yam,
lindera root, mantis egg-case and other herbs for
nourishing the kidney and reducing reducing urination, to
treat frequent urination due to deficiency of the
kidney.
In addition, it is
often used in recent years in combination with lysimachia,
climbing fern spore and other herbs for inducing diuresis
and removing urinary calculus, to treat urinary calculi,
and chole hihiasis.
Dosage and
Administration: 3-10g.
1.5-3g each time for its powder with a better effect than
its decoction.
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