Properties:
Pungent and
sweet in flavour, warm in nature, it is attributive to
the liver and kidney channels. Being sweet and warm, it
can tonify the kidney and invigorate Yang; being pungent
and warm, it can also dispell pathogenic wind and
dampness. Being stronger in tonifying the kidney and
strengthening muscles and bones, it serves to treat
syndromes of impotence due to kidney-deficiency,
infertility due to uterine coldness, wind-dampness with
arthralgia, and weak extreties. In spite of weaker
dryness than Rhizoma Curculiginis, it still can impair
Yin and help Yang. So it should be used cautiously.
Effects:Tonifying the
kidney, invigorating Yang, strengthening bones and
muscles, dispelling wind and dampness.
Indications:
1. For lumbago due to kidney-deficiency, impotence and
infertility due to sperm coldness, it is often used with
Fructus Lycii, Radix Morindae Offcinalis, Radix
Rehmanniae Pareparata, radix Acontit, etc. to tonify the
kidney strengthen Yang and supplement essence and blood.
2. For climacteric irregular menstruation, fluctuation
of blood pressure, and functional uterine bleeding in
the type of deficiency of kidney-yang, it is often used
with Rhizoma Curculigins, Radix Angelicae Sinensis,
Rhizoma Anemarrhenae and Cortex Phellodendri to regulate
and tonify Yin and Yang, and to nourish blood and
modulate menstruation.
3. For chronic arthralgia, low immunity, cold pain and
lassitude in the loins and knees, it is often used with
Radix Morindae Officinalis, Ramulus Loranthi, Radix
Achyarnthis, Cortex Eucommiae, Radix Dipsaci, etc. to
dispel wind-dampness and strengthen muscles and bones.
Dosage and Administraton:
3-10g.
