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). |