The nature and flavor are bitter, pungent, and warm. Enters the kidney and spleen meridians.

Effects and Indications

1. Tonify the kidney and help yang. It is used for kidney yang deficiency, impotence, cold pain in the waist and knees. It is often combined with dodder, walnut meat, and agarwood to form a prescription such as Bushen Pills.

2. Gujing and Diuresis is used for kidney yang deficiency, lower Yuan is not solid, enuresis, frequent urination, urinary incontinence, often combined with mulberry octopus, Yizhiren, etc.; used for kidney qi deficiency, Jingguan If it is not solid, nocturnal emission, slippery semen, soreness and weakness of the waist and knees, it is often combined with Morinda officinalis, Cuscuta, etc.

3. To warm the spleen and stop diarrhea, it is used for spleen and kidney yang deficiency and diarrhea at the fifth watch. It is often combined with Evodia Fructus, nutmeg, and Schisandra chinensis, such as Sishen Pills.

4. To relieve qi and relieve asthma, it is used for kidney deficiency, inability to absorb qi, shortness of breath, difficulty breathing, and dark complexion. It is often combined with walnut meat, ginseng, Schisandra chinensis, etc.

Dosage: 5~10g, decoct in water and take.

Taboos: It should not be used by those with yin deficiency and excessive fire, and those with dry and constipated stools.

Note: Psoralen is pungent and warm to support yang, and astringent can strengthen yang. It is good at warming the kidneys and strengthening yang, transforming yin and cold and solidifying astringent lower yuan. It can also replenish the fire of Mingmen, warm and nourish spleen yang and stop diarrhea. .

Identification of similar drugs: Psoralen and Aconite both can warm the kidneys and strengthen yang, but Psoralen is bitter and warm, mainly warming the lower Jiao; Aconite is pungent and hot, can warm the yang of the whole body, and can restore the yang to save the body. inverse.

Both psoralen and nutmeg can astringent the intestines and relieve diarrhea. However, nutmeg is pungent and fragrant, warms the intestines and regulates qi and distension, mainly regulating the spleen; psoralen can nourish the kidneys. want. When the two medicines are used together, they can be both warm and astringent, nourish the spleen and kidneys, and stop morning ejaculation.