No, decoction, 3-9g; or make into pills or powder.

Yizhiren, the name of Chinese medicine. The fruit of the ginger plant Alpinia oxyphylla?Miq. Distributed in Guangdong and Hainan, it is also cultivated in Fujian, Guangxi and Yunnan. It has the effects of warming the spleen, stopping diarrhea and salivation, warming the kidneys, shrinking urine and fixing essence.

It is often used for spleen and stomach deficiency, vomiting, diarrhea, cold pain in the abdomen, excessive salivation, kidney deficiency and enuresis, frequent urination, spermatorrhea, and white turbidity. Extended information

It is forbidden to take this product if you have a deficiency of yin and a strong fire.

1. "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Vomiting is due to heat and not cold; qi inversion is due to anger and not deficiency; residual urine is due to dryness of water and essence deficiency and internal heat, not due to kidney Qi deficiency and cold; diarrhea due to the violent injection of dampness and fire, not due to intestinal slippage."

2. "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It is contraindicated in cases of collapse and turbidity due to heat."

3. "Ben Jing Feng Yuan": "Dry blood has fire, so it should not be misused."

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