Eucommia Bark / Du Zhong (16oz)

精選 厚杜仲（16oz）

性味

甘；微辛；性温

功效

为杜仲科植物杜仲的干燥树皮。 主治腰脊酸疼，足膝痿弱，小便余沥，阴下湿痒，胎漏欲堕，胎动不安，高血压。

经脉

肝经；肾经

主治

补肝肾，强筋骨，安胎。治腰脊酸疼，足膝痿弱，小便余沥，阴下湿痒，胎漏欲堕，胎动不安，高血压。

• ①《本经》：主腰脊痛，补中益精气，坚筋骨，强志，除阴下痒湿，小便余沥。
• ②《别录》：主脚中酸痛，不欲践地。
• ③《药性论》：治肾冷臀腰痛，腰病人虚而身强直，风也。腰不利加而用之。
• ④《日华子本草》：治肾劳，腰脊挛。入药炙用。
• ⑤王好古：润肝燥，补肝经风虚。
• ⑥《本草正》：止小水梦遗，暖子宫，安胎气。
• ⑦《玉楸药解》：益肝肾，养筋骨，去关节湿淫。治腰膝酸痛，腿足拘挛。
• ⑧《本草再新》：充筋力，强阳道。

用法用量

内服：煎汤，6~15g；或浸酒；或入丸、散。

注意禁忌

• 1.阴虚火旺者慎服。
• 2.《本草经集注》：恶蛇皮、元参。
• 3.《本草经疏》：肾虚火炽者不宜用。即用当与黄柏、知母同入。
• 4.《得配本草》：内热、精血燥二者禁用。

Eucommia Bark/Du Zhong (16 oz/Box) 

This Chinese medicine comes from the bark of the Chinese rubber tree (Eucommia ulmoides). Du-Zhong is also a popular folk drink and is used as a functional food reinforcing the muscles and lungs, lowering blood pressure, preventing miscarriages, improving liver and kidney tone, and increasing longevity. (dovepress.com) 

It is known as “Du Zhong” in the Chinese language, a plant containing various kinds of chemical constituents such as lignans, iridoids, phenolics, steroids, flavonoids, and other compounds. These constituents of EU possess various medicinal properties and have been used in Chinese Traditional Medicine (TCM) as a folk drink and functional food for several thousand years. EU has several pharmacological properties such as antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antiallergic, antimicrobial, anticancer, antiaging, cardioprotective, and neuroprotective properties. Hence, it has been widely used solely or in combination with other compounds to treat cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, sexual dysfunction, cancer, metabolic syndrome, and neurological diseases.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4793136/

From the manufacturer: 

The taste is sweet; slightly pungent; warm in nature and effective. It is the dry bark of Eucommia Ulmoides. Indications: For lumbar spine pain, weak feet and knees, excessive urination, itchy vaginal discharge, fetal leakage [bleeding during pregnancy], restless fetal movement, high blood pressure. 

It enters the Liver and Kidney meridians. 

Indications: It nourishes the liver and kidney, strengthens bones and muscles, and soothes the restless fetus. It has been used to cure lumbar spine pain, weak feet and knees, excessive urine leakage, wet itching from the vagina, “fetal leakage,” fetal movement, and high blood pressure.  

Dosage:  Oral administration: decocting soup, 6~15g; or soaking in wine; or pill or powder. 

Cautions:

1. Be cautious about those who have yin deficiency and fire [afternoon fever, night sweats, thirst, dizziness, and headache].