Walnut Kernel (hu tao ren)
Semen Ouglandis
Properties:
Sweet in flavour, warm in nature, it is tropistic to the
lung, kidney and large intestine channels. Being sweet
and warm in property, it can invigorate Yang; and being
greasy and moist, warm but not dry, it is capable of
supplementing kidney-qi, helping inspiration and
moistening intestinal dryness, frequently serving to
treat lumbago due to kidney-deficiency, chronic cough
and asthma of deficiency-syndrome and constipation. It
is also an excellent tonic food.
Effects: Tonifying the
kidney and nourishing the lung, helping inspiration to
relieve asthma, moistening the intestine and relaxing
bowels.
Indications:
1. For lumbago due to kidney-deficiency, dizziness,
tinnitus, tired extremities, spermatorrhea and frequent
urination, it is often used with herbs for reinforcing
the kindney to keep vital essence, such as Cortex
Eucommiae, Fructus Psoraleae, Semen Astragali Complanati,
Fructus Corni, etc.
2. For deficiency-coldness of the lung and kidney,
failure of the kidney in receiving air, chronic cough,
asthma of insufficiency type, sweating, lassitude, and
soreness of the waist and knees, it is used with Radix
Genseng, Semen Armeniacae Amarum, Fructus Schisandrae,
Fructus Psoraleae, etc. to tonify the lung and kidney,
help respiration to arrest asthma.
3. For deficiency
of vital essence and blood because of old age and
chronic disease and constipation, it can be used with
herbs for moistening dryness to relax the bowel, such as
Fructus Cannabis, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Herba
Cistanchis, Semen Armeniacae Amarum, etc.
Dosage and Administration:
10-30g.
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