Botanical Name: Trionycis Carapax
Category: Tonify the Yin
Taste: Salty
Temperature: Slightly Cold
Channels Entered: Liver, Spleen
Dosage: 9-30g
Key Characteristics: Tonifies the yin, subdues the yang, clears heat from deficiency, softens areas of hardness, and disperses clumping.
Cautions & Contraindications:
- Contraindicated during pregnancy and in those with cold from deficiency of the Spleen and Stomach.
Actions & Indications:
- Nourishes the yin and anchors the yang: for yin deficiency with fever, steaming bone disorder, nightsweats, or consumption. Often used when there are also symptoms of internal stirring of Liver wind.
- Invigorates the blood, promotes menstruation, and dissipates nodules: for such symptoms as chest and flank accumulations causing pain and amenorrhea, as well as malarial disorders with palpable masses. Also for excessive menstruation due to hot blood.
- Heavily anchors and causes to descend, unblocks and facilitates the functions of the blood vessels: for problems in children due to internal clumping.
