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title: "Ba Ji Tian"
url: "https://books.drcassone.com/21/traditional-medicines-of-east-asia/295/ba-ji-tian"
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# 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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