Description
德庆 精选何首乌片（8 oz/盒）
性味
苦、甘、涩，温。
功效
本品为蓼科植物何首乌的干燥块根，其藤茎称夜交藤。 治肝肾阴亏，发须早白，血虚头晕，腰膝软弱，筋骨酸痛，遗精，崩带，久疟，久痢，慢性肝炎，痈肿，瘰疬，肠风，痔疾。制首乌补肝肾，益精血，乌须发，壮筋骨；用于眩晕耳鸣、须发早白、腰膝酸软、肢体麻木、神经衰弱、高血脂症。
经脉
归肝经、心经、肾经。
用法用量
- 内服：煎场，10～20g；熬膏、浸酒或入丸、散。
- 外用：适量，煎水洗、研末撒或调涂。
注意禁忌
大便清泄及有湿痰者不宜。
Fleeceflower Root/ He Shou Wu (8 oz/Box)
Fo-ti [shou wu] is an herb. The processed (cured) root of the plant is used to make medicine. Fo-ti is commonly used by mouth to help treat or prevent conditions related to aging, including cancer, heart disease, and memory problems. Fo-ti is also applied directly to the skin for sores, carbuncles, skin eruptions, and itching.
Fo-ti is also used for high cholesterol and other elevated blood fats, trouble sleeping (insomnia), limb numbness, lower back and knee soreness or weakness, premature graying, hair loss, and dizziness with ringing in the ears (tinnitus).
From the manufacturer:
The taste is bitter, sweet, astringent, and it is warming in effect. This product is the dry tuber of Polygonum multiflorum, and its root is called Yejiao vine. It has been used to cure liver and kidney yin deficiency, premature white hair and beard, blood deficiency, dizziness, waist and knee weakness, muscle aches, nocturnal emission, collapse, chronic malaria, chronic dysentery, chronic hepatitis, carbuncle, scrofula, bowel wind, hemorrhoids. Shouwu nourishes liver and kidney, nourishes essence and blood, black hair, strengthens muscles and bones; used for dizziness, tinnitus, waist and knees, numbness, neurasthenia, hyperlipidemia. It enters the Liver, Heart, and Kidney meridians.
Dosage: Oral administration: decoction, 10-20g; boiled for at least 45 minutes, soaked in wine or made into pills or powder; External use: appropriate amount, decocted, washed, ground powder, or blended.
Cautions: Avoid use with watery diarrhea, bloating and excess phlegm conditions
