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Clove

Clove. Class: Warming Interior Drugs. Properties: Pungent; Warm. Meridians: Spleen; Stomach; Lung; Kidney

🌿 Names
Pinyin Name
Ding Xiang
中文名 (Chinese)
丁香
Latin Name
Flos Caryophylli; Caryophylli Flos
English Name
Clove
Alias Names
丁子香支解香雄丁香公丁香
☯ TCM Properties
Properties (ζ€§ε‘³)
Pungent; Warm
Meridians (归经)
Spleen; Stomach; Lung; Kidney
Part Used
Flower bud
Therapeutic Class (EN)
Warming Interior Drugs
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🩺 Clinical Profile
Function (εŠŸθƒ½)
To warm the spleen and stomach, to regulate the adverse flow of the stomach qi, and to restore the kidney yang.
Indication (δΈ»ζ²»)
Stomach cold with retching counterflow, hiccough, cold pain in stomach duct and abdomen, reduced food intake and diarrhea, kidney vacuity impotence, vacuity cold in lumbus and knees, yin flat abscess.
Clinical Manifestations
1. causing hyperemia of gastic mucisa, increasing secretion of gastric fluid and promoting appetite by oral administration.2. bacteriostatic.3. its volatile oil can relieve toothache caused by dental caries.4. its decoction or alcoholic extract can paraly
πŸ”— External References
SymMap
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TCMID
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TCMSP
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TCM-ID
486