Bai Zi Ren
Platycladi Semen
sweet, neutral
PRIMARY FUNCTION:
Nourish the Heart and Calm the Spirit
CLASSICAL MANIFESATIONS:
- Irritability
- Due to deficiency heat
- Sleep disorders
- Poor memory
- Heart palpitations
- Anxiety
- Children with sleep disturbance
- Night terrors
- Constipation
- Dry
- Deficiency heat
- Postpartum debilitation
- Night sweats
- Deficiency of yin
Bai Zi Ren is sweet and neutral. It enters the heart, kidney, and large intestine systems. Its sweet property allows it to nourish the yin and treats heart yin related pathologies such as palpitations, insomnia, forgetfulness, and night terrors in children (can be used alone for this function). Bai Zi Ren very likely supports normal thyroid function with these properties.
In the large intestine system, Bai Zi Ren supports yin related constipation especially in the elderly.
Channels: heart, kidney, large intestine
COMMON APPLICATIONS AND CLINICAL POSSIBILITIES:
- Constipation
- Dry hard stool
- Anxiety
- Possible irregular thyroid function
- Palpitations
- Thyroid dysregulation
- Memory decline
- Kidney deficiency
- Hormone decline
- Hot flash
- Deficiency heat
- Night sweats
- Deficiency heat
- Thyroid dysregulation
- Adrenal hypofunction
Formulas:
- Jing Ling Tang
- Tian Wang Bu Xin Dan
- Wu Ren Wan
Contraindications: do not prescribe Bai Zi Ren to patients with loose stool or patients that present with phlegm
Zoo Image: a spirit wearing yin xu sweats is riding a deer while water with yin some heart shaped plants with blood flowers, some of the yin has gotten on the deer’s intestines