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Pin Yin: hu po
Common name: amber
Botanical family: (mineral)
Primary action: Calm Spirit
Secondary actions:
Drain Dampness, Promote Urination;
Quicken Blood, Transform Stasis
Temperature: neutral
Taste: sweet
Entering Channel: Ht, Lv, SI, UB
Actions:
Sedates and calms Spirit; used for insomnia, palpitations, anxiety, disturbed dreams, and for seizures and convulsions in children.
Promotes urination and invigorates Blood; used for retention of urine with painful urination and blood in urine.
Quickens Blood and promotes menstruation; used for amenorrhea and for painful fixed abdominal masses.
Used topically to reduce swelling and promote healing of carbuncles and skin ulcers; also for swollen painful scrotum.
(See
Heart Yin Vacuity;
Liver Yang Rising (Ascending);
Liver Wind Moving Internally;
Blood Stasis;
Damp Heat of Bladder
.)
Dosage: 0.3-0.6 qian taken orally as powder.
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