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【Nature and flavor】Sweet, bitter, cool.

[return through meridians]Returns the liver and kidney meridians.

【Effects】Nourishes the liver and kidneys, improves eyesight and darkens hair.

[Main Indications] Nourishes the liver and kidneys, improves eyesight and darkens hair. Used for dizziness and tinnitus, soreness of waist and knees, premature graying of hair, and blurred vision.

【Medical records】

① "Ben Jing": "It nourishes the middle, soothes the five internal organs, nourishes the spirit, and eliminates all diseases. Long-term use will make you fat and healthy."

② "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "Black hair and beard, strong tendons and strength, taking more can replenish blood and dispel wind."

③ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Strengthen yin, strengthen waist and knees, and improve eyesight."

④ "Ben Cao Jing Shu": "Cools blood and benefits blood."

⑤ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It nourishes Yin Qi, calms Yin fire, relieves irritability, heat and bone steaming, stops sweating, quenches thirst, and treats stranguria, metrorrhagia, blood in the stool, blood in the urine, vaginal sores, and pain caused by hemorrhoids. It also clears liver fire, brightens the eyes and stops tears."

③ "New Materia Medica": "Nourishes yin and benefits the kidney, replenishes qi and soothes the liver. Treats waist and leg pain, promotes menstruation and blood circulation."

⑦ "Guangxi Chinese Medicine Records": "Treats constipation in the elderly."

【Predecessors release medicine】

"Ben Cao Jing Shu" says: "Nu Ligustrum lucidum fruit has a yin flavor and is an essential ingredient for removing heat and replenishing essence in the kidney. When the kidney is replenished, the five internal organs will be at peace, the spirit will be self-sufficient, all diseases will be gone, and the body will be fat and healthy. The reason why it is mainly used to replenish the middle is that it tastes sweet. Sweetness is the main factor in transformation, so it can replenish the middle. This medicine has the effect of whitening and improving eyesight. It has been proven in many tests, but it is not recorded in the "Classic", which is a omission.

"Compendium of Materia Medica" says: Ligustrum lucidum fruit can enter the blood sea to benefit blood, and harmonize qi and nourish the upper part of the body... from the kidney to the lung, and can also make the essence flow up and down. This is not only true for the beard, but also used a lot in Guangsi prescriptions. If Ligustrum lucidum is taken with Guben Jianyang Pills, and there is still abdominal pain, then it is believed that the taste is indeed cold. Shizhen said that it is warm, but he did not observe it carefully.

"New Compendium of Materia Medica": Ligustrum lucidum is widely used by people nowadays, but its effect is very weak. It can be used in pills to replenish deficiency, but it is not convenient to use in soup to nourish. It is really a magic pill for whitening when used together with Rehmannia glutinosa, Lycium barbarum, Nanzhu, Ophiopogon japonicus, Polygonum multiflorum, Eclipta tenuifolia, Sesame, Chinese yam, mulberry, Solanum flower, Eucommia ulmoides, and Atractylodes macrocephala. However, it is effective when it is made into pills, and its immediate effect cannot be blamed. Ligustrum lucidum fruit is effective if it is used slowly, but it is less effective if it is used quickly. Therefore, if it is used quickly, it cannot win in a short time, but if it is used slowly, it can prolong life forever, which also depends on whether people use it properly.

"Ben Jing Feng Yuan" says: Ligustrum lucidum is pure yin in nature, and its taste is cold and slippery. People with weak spleen and stomach often lose appetite and have diarrhea after taking it. "Ben Jing" uses Holly as the main treatment, but mistakenly lists it under this flavor. Later generations mistakenly believed that Ligustrum lucidum has the function of nourishing the middle and calming the five internal organs, which often led to its misuse, causing serious diseases and causing it to come out from the surface.

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