Pharmaceutical Name:

Flos Caryophylatae

Botanical Name:

Eugenia caryophyllata Thunb.

Common Name:

Cloves

Source of Earliest Record:

Yaoxing Lun

Part Used & Method for Pharmaceutical Preparations:

The flower buds are gathered in September or March, when the buds turn bright red.  Then, they are dried.

Properties and Taste:

Pungent and warm

Meridian:

Spleen, stomach and kidney

Functions:

To warm the spleen and stomach and direct rebellious qi downward; To warm the kidneys and tonify the yang

Indications and Combinations:

1.     Cold in the stomach manifested as belching and vomiting.
*Use with Pinellia tuber (Banxia) and Fresh ginger (Shengjiang).

2.      Weakness and cold in the spleen and stomach manifested as poor appetite, vomiting and diarrhea.
*Use with Amomum fruit (Sharen) and White atractylodes (Baizhu).

3.     Weakness and cold in the stomach manifested as belching and vomiting.
*Use with Ginseng (Renshen) or Pilose asiabell root (Dangshen) and Fresh ginger (Shengjiang).

4.      Kidney yang deficiency manifested as impotence.
*Use with Prepared aconite root (Fuzi), Cinnamon bark (Rougui), Morinda root (Baijitian) and Epimedium (Yinyanghuo).

Dosage:

2-5 g

Cautions:

This herb should not be combined with Curcuma root (Yujin).