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title: "Huang Jing"
url: "https://books.drcassone.com/21/traditional-medicines-of-east-asia/507/huang-jing"
---

 ![huang jing, polygonati rhizoma.jpg](/u/huang-jing-polygonati-rhizoma-St6XY3.jpg) 

# 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

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