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title: "Bai Zi Ren"
url: "https://books.drcassone.com/21/traditional-medicines-of-east-asia/415/bai-zi-ren"
---

 ![bai zi ren, platycladi semen.jpg](/u/bai-zi-ren-platycladi-semen-k5YIaI.jpg) 

# 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

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