Common Macrocarpium Fruit

Common Macrocarpium Fruit
Name
Common Macrocarpium Fruit
Latin Pharmaceutical Name
Corni Fructus
Chinese Name
山茱萸
Category
Fruits and seeds

Common Macrocarpium FruitMore Info

Production Regions
Primarily produced in the Chinese provinces of Henan, Zhejiang, Shaanxi.
Macroscopic Features
Irregular flake-like or sac-like pieces. Externally purplish-red to purplish-black, wrinkled, lustrous. Apex has round scar of persistent calyx, base has scar of fruit stem. Soft texture. faint odor, sour, astringent, slightly bitter taste.
Quality Requirements
Superior medicinal material has thick flesh, purplish-red color, strongly sour taste.
Properties
Sour, astringent, slightly warm.
Functions
Supplements liver and kidney, astringes essence, secures desertion. Apply to vertigo and tinnitus, cold pain of waist and knees, impotence and seminal emission, anischuria and urinary frequency, metrorrhagia and metrostaxia, exhaustion due to excessive perspiration, feverish dysphoria and diabetes.
Origin
The dried mature fruit of Cornus officinalis Sieb. et Zucc.(Cornaceae).

Common Macrocarpium FruitHerbs in the formula

Kidney Qi Pill

Kidney Qi Pill

Action:Supplements the kidney and assists yang.
Indication:Shen Qi Wan is indicated for patterns of kidney yang deficiency manifesting lumbar pain, flaccidity of the lower limbs, cold sensation of the body below the waist, spasm of the lesser abdomen, dysuria or abnormally severe profuse urination at night, impotence, premature ejaculation, a pale, swollen tongue, and a deficient, weak pulse that is deep and thin at the chi position. It is also applicable for patterns of phlegm-retention, edema, xiao ke, beriberi, bladder colic, and dysuria during pregnancy, and so on.
Penetrating Vessel-Securing Decoction

Penetrating Vessel-Securing Decoction

Action:Boosts qi, fortifies spleen, and strengthens the chong mai to contain blood.
Indication:Gu Chong Tang is designed for the pattern of spleen and kidney deficiency with insecurity of the chong mai. Uterine bleeding may be profuse or it may routinely spot bleed in an irregular pattern. Profuse menstruation occurs with thin and pale menses, dizziness, cold extremities, palpitation, shortness of breath, mental fatigue, weakness, weak and aching waist and knees.
Rehmannia Drink

Rehmannia Drink

Action:Nourishes kidney yin, supplements kidney yang, opens the orifices, and resolves phlegm.
Indication:Di Huang Yin Zi is indicated for yin fei syndrome (aphasia and apraxia) due to kidney qi deficiency and phlegm invading upward manifested as aphasia due to stiffness of the tongue, apraxia of the legs, thirst without a desire to drink, cold legs, and flushed face. The pulse is deep, thin, and weak.
Left-Restoring Pill

Left-Restoring Pill

Action:Enriches kidney yin, supplements essence, and boosts marrow.
Indication:Zuo Gui Wan is used to treat patterns of true yin deficiency marked by dizziness, blurred vision, soreness of the waist and knees, seminal emission, efflux diarrhea, spontaneous sweating, night sweat, a dry mouth and tongue, a red tongue with a scanty coating, and a thready pulse.
Right-Restoring Pill

Right-Restoring Pill

Action:Warms and supplements kidney yang, supplements essence, and boosts marrow.
Indication:You Gui Wan is intended for patterns of kidney yang insufficiency and ming men fire deficiency marked by mental fatigue and general weakness due to aging or chronic disease, fear of cold, hypothermic limbs, sore loins, impotence, spermatorrhea, infertility, decreased food intake, unformed stools, urinary incontinence, a pale tongue with a white coating, and a deep, delayed pulse.
Six-Ingredient Rehmannia Pill

Six-Ingredient Rehmannia Pill

Action:Supplements and nourishes the liver and kidney.
Indication:Liu Wei Di Huang Wan is indicated for liver-kidney yin deficiency. The symptoms are soreness of the waist and knees, dizziness, tinnitus, deafness, night sweat, seminal emission, xiao ke (wasting-thirst), steaming bone fever, feverish feeling in the palms and soles, a dry mouth and throat, loosening of the teeth, heel pain, dribbling of urine, and unclosed fontanel in children. The tongue is red with scanty coating and the pulse is deep, thready, and rapid.
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