Yang Tonics
Jiu Cai (韭菜)
Name
Jiu Cai (Fragrant-flowered Garlic)
The Effect of 韭菜
Property
Pungent, warm; liver, stomach and kidney meridians entered.
Actions
Tonify the kidney, warm the spleen and stomach, promote the flow of qi, dissipate stasis and remove toxicity.
Indications
Impotence, urine with blood, dysentery, sores and boils, traumatic injury, nose bleeding, hematemesis, gastric disorder causing nausea, abdominal pain caused by interior cold, dysphagia, chest pain, hemorrhoids, dermatitis rhus.
Dosage and Administrations
It is pounded into juice for oral taking, or made porridge. Proper dosage is for external application, pounded for applying or decocted for washing.
Cautions
It is contraindicated in case of eye disease, sores, yin deficiency with interior heat.
Sources and further reading
We cite classical materia medica and modern reference works. This article is health education, not medical advice.
- Shennong Bencao Jing (The Divine Farmer's Materia Medica), Han dynasty.
- Bencao Gangmu (Compendium of Materia Medica), Li Shizhen, 1578.
- Chinese Pharmacopoeia, current edition — identity, quality and safety monographs.
- NCCIH and WHO reference material on traditional medicine safety.
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