---
title: "Mu Li"
url: "https://books.drcassone.com/21/traditional-medicines-of-east-asia/551/mu-li"
---

 ![mu li, ostreae concha.jpg](/u/mu-li-ostreae-concha-SUJhSN.jpg) 

# Mu Li

### Ostreae Concha

_salty, astringent, cool_

#### PRIMARY FUNCTION:

_**Calm the Shen**_

CLASSICAL MANIFESTATIONS:
- Anxiety
- Restlessness
- Insomnia
- Irritability
- Dizziness
- Headache
- Tinnitus
- Blurring vision
- Red face
- Excess sweating
- Night sweats
- Nocturnal emissions
- Spermatorrhea
- Vaginal discharge
- Uterine bleeding
- Nodulation
- Sour taste
- Stomach ache

Mu Li is salty to reduce nodules, astringent to restrain leakage,
and cool to treat heat related patterns. It enters the liver and
kidney systems.

Mu Li is rich with minerals that calm the sympathetic nervous
system and support thyroid function.

**Channels:** liver, kidney

COMMON APPLICATIONS AND CLINICAL
POSSIBILITIES:
- Nodulation
- Dizziness
- Diarrhea
- Stomachache
- Tinnitus
- Fever
- Chills
- Blurred vision
- Thyroid disorders
- Insomnia
- Leukorrhea
- Heart palpitations
- Excess sweating
- Urinary incontinence

**Formulas:**
- An Chong Tang
- Chai Hu Gui Zhi Gan Jiang Tang
- Chai Hu Jia Long Gu Mu Li Tang
- Da Ding Feng Zhu
- E Jiao Ji Zi Huang Tang
- Gu Chong Tang
- Gui Zhi Jia Long Gu Mu Li Tang
- Jian Ling Tang
- Qing Re Gu Jing Tang
- Rou Fu Bao Yuan Tang
- San Jia Fu Mai Tang
- Xiao Luo Wan
- Zhen Gan Xi Feng Tang

**Contraindications:** do not prescribe Mu Li to patients that
present with high fever with absence of sweating

**Zoo Image:** a sweaty pirate elephant with a tennis ball parrot and a hot peg leg
is angry and tasting his lemon while the spirit of the yin ship holds a heart,
there is a yang anchor

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