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title: "Ye Jiao Teng"
url: "https://books.drcassone.com/21/traditional-medicines-of-east-asia/631/ye-jiao-teng"
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# Ye Jiao Teng

### Polygoni Multiflori Caulis

_sweet, neutral_

#### PRIMARY FUNCTION:

_**Nourish the Heart and Calm the Spirit**_

CLASSICAL MANIFESTATIONS:
- Insomnia
- Irritability
- Bad dreams
- Weakness
- Muscle soreness
- Pain
- Numbness
- Rash
- Itching

Ye Jiao Teng is sweet and neutral. It enters the heart and liver
systems. It calms the spirit and nourishes the heart to improve
shen. Abnormal liver function can also cause sympathetic nervous
system stimulation resulting in irritability and bad dreams. By
entering the liver system, Ye Jiao Teng also improves normal liver
function.

**Channels:** heart, liver

COMMON APPLICATIONS AND CLINICAL
POSSIBILITIES:
- Subclinical anemia
- Sleeplessness
- Pain in the extremities
- Pruritus
- Tinea

**Formulas:**
- Tian Ma Gou Teng Yin

**Contraindications:** there are no contraindications
documented for Ye Jiao Teng

**Zoo Image:** a deer is asleep in a hammock with a newspaper headlined
“Channels Now Unblocked” while dreaming about tics and ants, the deer is
itching, there is a heart shaped pitcher with blood

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