Properties: Sweet and salty, warm

Meridans Entered:
Primary: Kidney and Liver
Extraordinary Vessels: Du

1. Tonifies the Kidneys and strengthens Yang
   Kidney Yang Deficiency with fatigue, impotence, cold extremities, light-headedness, tinnitus, soreness and lack of strength in the lower back and knees and frequent, copious clear urination
2. Warms Yang, regulates the Chong and Ren channels and stabilizes the Dai Channel
   Insufficiency of the Chong and Ren and Dai Channel weakness with vaginal discharge or uterine bleeding from Deficiency Cold Infertility with a cold Womb (can be used alone)
3. Tonifies the DU Channel, strengthens Jing and Blood, strengthens the sinews and bones and benefits marrow
   Jing and Blood Deficiency, especially in children with physical and mental developmental disorders such as failure to thrive, mental retardation, learning disabilities, insufficient growth or skeletal deformities including rickets Non healing fractures with Kidney Deficiency and exhaustion of the Jing (can be used alone)
4. Tonifies and nourishes Qi and Blood and heals chronic Yin sores and boils
   Qi and Blood Deficiency Chronic ulcerations or Yin-type boils, non healing ulcers (can be used alone)

Suggested Daily Dosage: 1-3g ground into fine powder and taken as a pill 3 times per day.

Cautions: It is contraindicated in cases of yin deficiency with effulgent fire, heat in blood system excessive stomach-fire, phlegm heat in lung and attacking by external pathogen; and it should be used from small dosage to treatmental dosage because of its warm, ascending property and tonifying yang heat action, and if it was used in large amount suddenly, it would result in vertigo, blood-shot eyes and syncope due to yang ascending and wind stirring; or epistaxis hematemesis, hematuria due to excessive fire.

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