Psoralea fruit Psoraleae Fructus (补骨脂)
Medicines that tonify yangWarm
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Traditional recorded function
Tonify the kidney and assist yang, secure essence and reduce urination, warm the spleen and stop diarrhea, promote qi reception and calm wheezing
1. Used for cold pain of the lower back and knees, impotence, seminal emission, and frequent urination due to insufficiency of Kidney Yang and decline of Mingmen fire. 2. Used for diarrhea due to Yang deficiency of the Spleen and Kidney. 3. Used for deficient dyspnea due to failure of the Kidney to receive Qi.
Nature & taste
PungentBitterWarm
Meridians entered
SpleenKidney
Herbal properties
WarmReinforcingAscendingAstringent