Cloves (Ding Xiang)

Cloves (Ding Xiang)

Pharmaceutical Name: Flos Caryophylatae
Botanical Name: Eugenia caryophyllata Thunb.
Common Name:Cloves
Source of Earliest Record: Yaoxing Lun
art 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).