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title: "Suo Yang"
url: "https://books.drcassone.com/21/traditional-medicines-of-east-asia/598/suo-yang"
---

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# Suo Yang

### Cynomorii Herba

_sweet, warm_

#### PRIMARY FUNCTION:

_**Tonify Yang**_

CLASSICAL MANIFESTATIONS:
- Erectile dysfunction
- Frequent urination
- Spermatorrhea
- Infertility
- Constipation

Suo Yang is sweet and warm and enters the liver, kidney, and
large intestine systems. Its moistening effect helps for patients
with constipation while its yang tonifying effect improves sexual
function and strengthens tendons and ligaments.

Suo Yang also helps patients that suffer impaired ability to walk
due to yang deficient stiff and brittle tendons and ligaments.

**Channels:** large intestine, liver, kidney

COMMON APPLICATIONS AND CLINICAL
POSSIBILITIES:
- Subclinical anemia
- Constipation
- Paralysis
- Back pain
- Knee pain
- Infertility
- Muscular weakness
- Premature ejaculation
- Frequent urination
- Impaired gait

**Formulas:**
- Hu Qian Wan

**Contraindications:** do not prescribe Suo Yang to patients
that present with deficiency heat patterns, spleen deficiency
related diarrhea, or constipation from heat

**Zoo Image:** a grizzly bear is shopping for bottles of liver blood and yin herbs
while getting colon therapy in an office that has posters of the pools of youth

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