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title: "Hu Po"
url: "https://books.drcassone.com/21/traditional-medicines-of-east-asia/511/hu-po"
---

 ![hubpo, succinum.jpg](/u/hubpo-succinum-kMCPXJ.jpg) 

# Hu Po

### Succinum

_sweet, neutral_

#### PRIMARY FUNCTION:

_**Calm the Spirit**_

CLASSICAL MANIFESTATIONS:
- Heart system disorders
 - Anxiety
 - Dream disturbed
 - Insomnia
 - Coronary artery disease
- Poor memory
- Seizures
- Fixed masses
- Painful urination
- Blood in the urine
- Inhibited urination
- Sores
- Carbuncles
- Swollen genitals

Hu Po is sweet and neutral. It enters the bladder, heart, and liver
systems to calm the shen.

**Channels:** heart, liver, bladder

COMMON APPLICATIONS AND CLINICAL
POSSIBILITIES:
- Angina pain
- Abdominal masses
- CAD
- Blood in the urine
- Mood disorders
- Muscle spasms
- Dysuria
- Urethral pain
- Urinary tract infection

**Formulas:**
- Dao Chi Qing Xin Tan
- Zhi Bao Dan

**Contraindications:** do not prescribe Hu Po to patients with
deficiency heat patterns

**Zoo Image:** an elephant is chiseling into a blood rock while watching a spirit
rake a tremulous heart in a Zen garden while catching itself in the groin with
the rake

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