Ba Ji Tian #

Morindae officinalis Radix #

acrid, sweet, slightly warm

PRIMARY FUNCTION: #

Tonify the Yang

CLASSICAL MANIFESTATIONS: -Impotence -Due to deficiency of yang

• Infertility -Due to deficiency of yang
• Urinary incontinence
  • Due to deficiency of yang
• Premature ejaculation
  • Due to deficiency of yang
• Irregular menses
  • Due to cold deficiency patterns in the lower jiao
• Abdominal pain
  • Due to cold deficiency patterns in the middle jiao and lower jiao
• Low back pain
  • Due to cold deficiency patterns Joint pain
  • Due to cold patterns plus dampness

Kidney yang, in Oriental Medicine, largely refers to hormone production from the adrenal glands and the gonads. It is used for patients with conditions such as infertility (male or female), erectile dysfunction, urinary incontinence, and irregular menstrual patterns.

Its sweet characteristic makes it tonifying. As a result of improving hormone production, this herb also strengthens tendons, ligaments, and improves bone remodeling.

Ba Ji Tian is acrid which gives it a scattering or moving quality. It circulates blood in the low back driving out spasms and tension for patients suffering low back pain, especially when the pain is from a cold pattern as this herb has a warm quality.

Channels: kidney

COMMON APPLICATIONS AND CLINICAL POSSIBILITIES:

• Pain relief; low back, legs
  • Tendon and ligament strength via hormone regulation
• Decrease arthritis
  • wind damp
  • wind cold
  • channel obstruction
  • cold bi syndrome
• Tendonitis
  • Inflammation caused by cold patterns
• Infertility
  • Hormone regulation
  • Reduction of cold
• Bladder dysfunction
  • Kidney system tonic
• Antihypertensive
  • Regulates kidneys
• Sports injuries
• Sprains
• Strains
• Erectile dysfunction
  • Hormone regulation
• Fatigue
  • hypoadrenia
• Weakness of limbs
  • Poor sex hormone production
• Tendon and ligament strength
  • Poor sex hormone production
• Arthritis
  • Cold patterns

Formulas:

• Bu Shen Gu Chong Wan
• Di Huang Yin Zi
• Diao Gan Tang
• Er Xian Tang

Contraindications: do not prescribe Ba Ji Tian to patients that present with heat patterns due to damp heat or deficiency heat, do not combine with Dan Shen

Zoo Image: a grizzly bear ignored the “no essence” stop sign and was run over by a car on his low back where it is now windy and raining while urine and semen spill out from under him

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