Rou Cong Rong
Cistanches Herba
sweet, salty, warm
PRIMARY FUNCTION:
Tonify Yang
CLASSICAL MANIFESTATIONS:
- Infertility
- Spermatorrhea
- Urinary incontinence
- Low back pain
- Knee pain
- Erectile dysfunction
- Constipation
- Excess uterine bleeding
- Vaginal discharge
Rou Cong Rong is sweet, salty, and warm. It enters the kidney and liver systems to tonify the yang. Its warming function can treat infertility when the cause is cold in the womb. The warming quality also helps with patients that suffer from pain due to cold deficiency patterns especially in the low back and knees.
Rou Cong Rong supports hormone function from the adrenal glands and gonads to further treat infertility, vaginal discharge, erectile dysfunction, and excess urination. The salty quality helps both with the urinary issues and with constipation.
Channels: kidney, large intestine
COMMON APPLICATIONS AND CLINICAL POSSIBILITIES:
- Geriatric constipation
- Back pain
- Arthritis
- Fatigue
- Dry mouth
- Urinary incontinence
- Leukorrhea
- Uterine bleeding
Formulas:
- Di Huang Yin Zi
- Ji Chuan Jian
- Tu Si Zi Wan
Contraindications: do not prescribe Rou Cong Rong to patients that have diarrhea from weak upper gastrointestinal function, do not prescribe to patients that have heat patterns from deficiency of yin
Zoo Image: grizzly bears with back pain and infertility are at the pools of youth, when they come out they head towards the baby carriages while turds walk away