Curculigo Rhizome (Xianmao)

Curculigo Rhizome (Xianmao)

Pharmaceutical Name: Rhizoma curculiginis
Botanical Name: Curculigo orchioides Gaertn.
Common Name:Curculigo rhizome
Golden-eye grass
Source of Earliest Record: Haiyao Bencao
art Used & Method for Pharmaceutical Preparations: The rhizomes are dug in early spring. After the fibrous roots have been removed, the roots are dried in the sun and cut into slices.
Properties and Taste: Pungent, hot and toxic
Meridian: Kidney
Functions: To warm the kidney and strengthen yang
To dispel cold and dampness
Indications and Combinations: Weakness of kidney yang manifested as impotence, frigidity and cold pain in the lower back and knees due to obstruction by invasion of wind-cold dampness. 
*Use with Epimedium (Yinyanghuo).
Dosage: 10-15 g (It can be used as decoction, pill or ointment.)
Cautions: This herb is contraindicated in cases with deficient yin and excessive fire.