Wu Zhu Yu
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Nutrition and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM):
Factoids:
English Name: evodia, medicinal evodia fruit
Pharmacuetical Name: Fructus Evodiae
Properties: slightly toxic,
acrid, bitter, hot
Temperature: hot
Channels: ST, SP, KD, LV
Flavors: toxic, bitter, pungent
Special Properties:
disperses cold, clears damp
Actions / Indications:
- Warms the LV channel; relieves constrained LV qi; relieves
pain (LV channel disorders with jueyin headache, epigastric
pain with nausea and cold, drooling, reduced taste sensation, cold hernia
with lower lateral abdominal pain; also damp-cold leg qi, pale tongue,
wiry / weak pulse; )
- Redirects rebellious qi down to stop vomiting (LV
and ST disharmony with hypochondriac pain, regurgitation of sour fluid)
- Warms Spleen; stops diarrhea (cock's crow diarrhea
due to cold from deficiency of SP and KD)
- Leads fire down (mouth sores, ,tongue sores, hypertension,
apply externally)
- (cc: pregnancy)
- (cc: drying and can injure qi and yin, not for long-term use)
- (cc: yin deficiency with heat sign)
- (cc: overdose may cause dryness of throat)
Special Notes:
- Wu Zhu Yu is known to go to the jue yin channels internal cold invasion,
whereas Gao Ben goes to the Jue yin to treat
external invasion like headaches..
- Wu Zhu Yu goes to LV, ST, KD and is good for yangming cold related
to vomiting.
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