[Nature and flavor] Spicy and bitter, warm in nature.
[return through meridians] returns the spleen, stomach and liver meridians.
【Effects】Dries dampness and strengthens the spleen, dispels wind and cold, and improves eyesight.
[Indications] It is used for dampness blocking the middle burner, abdominal distension, diarrhea, edema, beriberi, paralysis, rheumatic pain, colds, night blindness, and blurred vision.
[Usage and Dosage] Decoction, 3-9g.
[Taboo] Avoid eating peaches, plums, sparrow meat, cabbage, and herring.
【Medical records】
Tao Hongjing: "Remove bad air."
Liu Wansu: "Brighten the eyes, warm the water organs."
"Zhenzhu Nang": "It can strengthen the stomach and calm the spleen, and it can only eliminate all kinds of swelling caused by dampness."
Li Gao: "It can remove dampness and induce sweating, strengthen the stomach and calm the spleen, and is an important medicine for treating impotence."
Zhu Zhenheng: "It can dispel wind and replenish qi, and relieve all depression."
"Compendium of Materia Medica": "It is used to treat damp phlegm and retained fluid, or blood stasis forming nests and cysts, as well as spleen dampness flowing down, turbid leucorrhea, slippery diarrhea and intestinal wind."
"Yuzhou Yaojie" says: "It dries the earth and promotes water, dispels fluid and eliminates phlegm, removes blood stasis, relieves depression, removes leaks, resolves tinea, removes symptoms, regulates acid reflux and removes rot, prevents miasma in mountains and rivers, restores weakness of tendons and bones, and clears turbid urine."
"Compendium of Materia Medica": "It can stop watery diarrhea, diarrhea caused by indigestion, summer heat diarrhea, and blood in the spleen caused by dampness."
"Compendium of Materia Medica": Dry the stomach and strengthen the spleen. Induce sweat and remove dampness. Can raise the Yang Qi in the stomach. Stop vomiting and diarrhea. Expel phlegm and water.
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