The treatment of yang weak essence deficiency, yin failure and blood depletion, the large intestine dry, constipation does not transport: lock yang three pounds. Five buckets of water, decoction twice, the total and, in a casserole simmering paste, refining honey eight two harvested, into the porcelain bottle storage, each morning, afternoon and evening before eating more than ten teaspoons, hot wine served. ("Herbal cuts")

Lock yang taste sweet, sexual temperature. It belongs to the spleen, kidney and large intestine meridians. It has the functions of tonifying kidney yang, benefiting essence and blood, moistening the intestines and laxatives. Used for waist and knee impotence, impotence and spermatorrhea, intestinal dryness and constipation. Now clinically used for peripheral chiropractic paralysis, peripheral nerve class, spinal cord radiculitis, poliomyelitis sequelae.

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Lock Yang surface brown or tan, rough, with obvious longitudinal grooves and irregular depression, some residual triangular black-brown scales. Weight, hard, difficult to break, section light brown or brown, with yellow triangular vascular bundles. Nutritional richness per 100g of dry matter, amino acid content ≧8.5%, total flavonoids ≧55%.

Produced in Xinjiang (Junggar Basin, Turpan Basin, Tarim Basin, Altay Mountains, Tianshan Mountains, etc.), Qinghai (Qaidam Basin, etc.), Gansu (Minqin, Jinta, Wuwei, Zhangye, Jiuquan, etc.), Ningxia (Yinbei), Inner Mongolia (northwestern Xilinguo League, northern Ulanchab League, Bayannur League, northwestern Iqqaom League, Alxa left flag, Alxa right flag, etc.), Shaanxi (Yulin and other places) and other provinces and regions.

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