Origin

China.

Properties (characteristics)

Nature: Warm. 

Taste: Sweet, salty.

Organ: Liver, Kidneys.

Toxicity: Non toxic. 

Preparation

The drug is collected in summer and autumn, processed, and dried in the shade or dried by heat.

Burnaway the softhairs, scrape clean, wrap it with a clothingband, add hotwhite rice wine into the small holes on the cut surface until it is softened thoroughly or steam briefly after filled with wine, cut into slices, press, and dry at a low temperature.

Actions

Being used in shenyangxu (kidney yang deficient) resulting in impotence, spermatorrhea, cold and achy loin, boils, early stage of breast tumor, swelling from blood stases.

It is better to use during winter.

Contraindications

Warm-febrile diseases due to externally-contracted pathogenic influences.

Yin Deficiency and ascendant Yang.

Phlegm-Heat in the Lung.

Heat in the Blood level.

Stomach Fire.