Wu Ling Zhi
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Nutrition and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM):
Factoids:
English Name: pteropus feces, trogopterus dung
Pharmacuetical Name: Excrementum Trogopteri seu Pteromi
Properties: bitter, sweet, warm
Temperature: warm
Channels: SP, LV
Flavors: sweet, bitter
Special Properties:
circulates blood, stops bleeding
Actions / Indications:
- Invigorates blood, alleviates pain (dysmenorrhea,
amenorrhea, pain due to blood stasis, pospartum abdominal pain; epigastric,
abdominal and chest pain; topical use for fractures, poisonous insect
bites)
- Dispels blood stasis; stops bleeding (profuse uterine
bleeding, lochioschesis due to blood stasis; blood in stool)
- (cc: pregnancy)
- (cc: weak SP or ST qi def)
- (cooking: decoct in cheesecloth)
Special Notes:
- Antagonistic to ren
shen
- Patients with infertility were treated with modified Shi
Xiao San with good results.
- Ling Zhi is an alternate name for Wu Ling Zhi but is also the pinyin
for another herb - Reishi Mushroom - named Ling
Zhi.
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