| English
Name |
| Dodder
Seed |
| Chinese
Name |
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| Origin |
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Dodder
Seed is the dried ripe seed of Cuscuta chinensis
Lam.(Fam. Convolvulaceae). |
| Nature
and Affinity |
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It
is sweet in taste, warm in nature and distributed in the Liver,
Kidney and Spleen Channels. |
| Main
Active Ingredient |
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| Precaution |
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Storage |
| Preserve
in a ventilated and dry place. |
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DESCRIPTION |
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Subspherical,
1~1.5 mm in diameter. Externally grayish-brown or yellowish-brown,
with numerous fine projecting dots, a slightly sunken linear
raphe at one end. Texture hard, difficult to break with finger.
Odour, slight; taste, weak.
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ACTION |
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To arrest
seminal discharge and abnormal urination, prevent abortion,
improve eyesight and relieve diarrhea by replenishing and tonifying
the liver and the kidney. |
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INDICATIONS |
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Impotence,
seminal emission, dripping of urine after urination, enuresis,
frequent urination, aching and weakness of the loins and knees,
blurred vision and tinnitus; threatened abortion due to deficiency
of the kidney; diarrhea due to hypofunction of the spleen
and the kidney; external use for vitiligo. |
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REFERENTIAL
ADVICE |
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1.
Nourishing the lung and tonifying the kidney. It is always
used to preserve the essence and reduce urination. It can
nourish both kidney yin and kidney yang.
2. Soothing
the fetus.It
can treat the threatened abortion due to deficiency of both
kidney and liver.
3. Improving
visual acuity. It can treat hypopsia and tinnitus.
4. Arresting
the diarrhea due to spleen deficiency.
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