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title: "Ci Shi"
url: "https://books.drcassone.com/21/traditional-medicines-of-east-asia/446/ci-shi"
---

 ![ci shi, magnetitum.jpg](/u/ci-shi-magnetitum-XYOjI6.jpg) 

# Ci Shi

### Magnetitum

_acrid, salty, cold_

#### PRIMARY FUNCTION:

_**Calm the Spirit**_

CLASSICAL MANIFESTATIONS:
- Shen disturbance
 - Heart palpitations
 - Sleep disorders
- Pathologies of internal wind
 - Tremors
 - Dizziness
 - Vertigo
 - Convulsions
- Impairment of vision
- Ear disorders
 - Hearing decline
 - Deafness
 - Tinnitus
- Asthma

Ci Shi is acrid, salty, and cold to treat conditions involving heat
patterns. Ci Shi enters the liver system to influence ocular
function and the kidney system to influence hormones that
decline with age and also related to asthma (kidney grasping
function).

Ci Shi can be used for children that are in a state of shock
suffering convulsions.

**Channels:** liver, kidney

COMMON APPLICATIONS AND CLINICAL
POSSIBILITIES:
- Anemia
- Dizziness
- Vertigo
- Blurring vision
- Irregular heart beat
- Asthma
- Wheeze
- Muscle spasms

**Formulas:**
- Ci Zhu Wan
- Er Long Zuo Ci Wan
- Zi Xue Dan

**Contraindications:** Ci Shi should be prescribed cautiously to
patients with weak digestive function from spleen and stomach
deficiency patterns

**Zoo Image:** an elephant wearing kidney shorts and glasses is being rescued
with an anchor from a helicopter flown by a spirit, there is a qi buttery being
grasped by the elephant’s kidneys, the helicopter has big ears

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