Yi Zhi Ren
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Nutrition and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM):
Factoids:
English Name: alpinia fruit, sharp-leaf galangal fruit
Pharmacuetical Name: Fructus Apliniae Oxyphyllae
Properties: acrid, warm
Temperature: warm
Channels: SP, KD
Flavors: pungent
Tonifies: yang
Special Properties:
essence, disperses cold
Actions / Indications:
- Warms Kidney; stabilizes essence; retains urine (enuresis,
frequent, copious urination, nocturnal
emission, urinary incontinence, dribbling urine; spermatorrhea)
- Warms SP; stops diarrhea (diarrhea with abdominal
distension, deficient cold in SP and ST diarrhea, cold abdominal pain,
excessive salivation)
- (cc: yin deficient heat)
- (cooking: crush before decocting)
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