Huang Jing
Polygonati Rhizoma
sweet, neutral
PRIMARY FUNCTION:
Tonify Qi
CLASSICAL MANIFESTATIONS:
- Apathy
- Fatigue
- Poor appetite
- Dry mouth
- Loss of taste
- Dry stools
- Dry red tongue
- Cough
- Low back pain
- Weakness of the lower extremities
- Dysglycemia
Huang Jing is sweet and neutral. It enters the lung, spleen, and kidney systems to tonify and improve function.
Channels: lung, kidney, spleen
COMMON APPLICATIONS AND CLINICAL POSSIBILITIES:
- Dysglycemia
- Diabetes
- Obesity
- Fatigue
- Hypoadrenia
- Low blood pressure
- Hypothyroid
- Subclinical anemia
- Cough
- Pneumonia
- Poor appetite
- Hypertension
- Antimicrobial
Formulas:
- Yi Yin Jian
Contraindications: do not prescribe Huang Jing to patients with poor digestive function
Zoo Image: a ferret is taking a bath coughing while an earth man holding a turtle squirts herbal essence onto the ferret’s low back, there are wasting and thirsting towels