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Mu Li牡蠣

Concha OstreaeOyster Shell

Catégorie
** Substances that Anchor, Settle and Calm the Spirit (Substances that Calm the Liver and Extinguish Wind)
Nature
frais
Saveur
salé, astringent
Tropisme
Foie, Rein
Méridiens secondaires
Vésicule biliaire, Cœur
Posologie
9–30 g

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Actions & indications

Heavily settles and calms the Spirit
Agitated Heart and Spirit with palpitations with anxiety, restlessness and insomnia
Calms the Liver, benefits Yin and anchors Floating *Yang*
Liver Yin Deficiency with Liver Yang Rising or Yin Deficiency with internal Heat with restlessness, irritability, palpitations and spontaneous sweating
Prevents the leakage of fluids
  • Continuous sweat after febrile disease or in patients with steaming bone disorder
  • Loss of fluids due to Deficiency with night sweats, spontaneous sweating, nocturnal emissions, spermatorrhea or vaginal discharge and uterine bleeding
Softens hardness and dissipates nodules
Various kinds of lumps particularly neck lumps such as goiter or scrofula
Absorbs acidity and alleviates pain (calcined)
Excessive Stomach pain with a sour taste in the mouth

Contre-indications

  • Contraindicated for high fever from Excess with no sweating.
  • Contraindicated for Deficiency disorders involving Cold.
  • Contraindicated for Kidney Deficiency without Fire.
  • Contraindicated for spermatorrhea.
  • Contraindicated for Damp-Heat.
  • Excessive doses may cause indigestion and constipation.

Incompatibilités

  • Antagonistic with Fr. Evodiae Wu Zhu Yu.
  • Antagonistic with Hb. Asari Xi Xin.
  • Antagonistic with Hb. Ephedrae Ma Huang.

Associations

Notes

  • It acts synergistically when combined with Bul. Fritillariae Chuan Bei Mu or Zhe Bei Mu, Rx. Glycyrrhizae Gan Cao, Rx. Achyranthis Bidentatae Niu Xi, and Rx. Polygalae Yuan Zhi.
  • It disperses Phlegm more effectively than Fossilia Ossis Mastodi Long Gu.
  • Combined with Fossilia Ossis Mastodi Long Gu, it treats insomnia, neurosis, epilepsy, and other conditions needing stronger sedative action.
  • Although produced by an animal, the material is essentially mineral in nature, and it must be crushed before decocting.
  • It has been shown to inhibit cancer cell growth.
  • It is said to relieve fullness and rigidity in the hypochondrium, as well as scrofula and furuncles of all kinds.
  • It also relieves Heart and Spleen pain caused by Qi Stagnation, reddish leukorrhea, goiter, and tuberculosis.
  • For ulcerous paronychia and pus-filled phalangeal polyps: grind the thick shell into powder and take 6g each dose in an alcohol decoction of Flos Carthami Hong Hua, three times daily by mouth, applying it to the lesion topically as well.
  • To draw pus from a painful swelling that has not yet festered, mix the powder with water and apply frequently to the affected site.
  • For carbuncle, apply the powder to the site with egg white placed around it, repeated frequently.
  • The cooked meat is said to regulate the Middle Jiao and remedy consumptive and inflammatory disease and menoxenia; taken raw with ginger, it is said to remedy inflammatory disease and relieve thirst and irritation from drinking.
  • Cooked, the meat treats consumptive and inflammatory disease and menoxenia while regulating the Middle Jiao.
  • Taken raw with ginger and vinegar, the meat treats inflammatory disease and relieves thirst and irritation brought on by drinking.
  • According to one source, it softens hard lumps, dispels Phlegm, eliminates scrofula, relieves hiccups, restores sperm, and remedies metrorrhagia and leukorrhagia.
  • Long Gu and Concha Ostreae Mu Li share many qualities and are frequently paired. Long Gu is sweet and astringent, enters the Heart and Liver channels, and is superior for arresting collapse, calming fright, and settling the Spirit; it does not soften hardness or disperse clumping, and its Yin-nourishing power is much weaker, so it is used less often for night sweats from Yin Deficiency. Mu Li is salty and astringent, enters the Kidneys, and softens hardness, transforms Phlegm, and cools Heat.
  • Calcined Oyster Shell, Duan Mu Li, has a strengthened astringent action and an added drying quality, allowing it to check sweating and seminal loss and stop vaginal discharge; it secures the Lower Jiao, expels turbid Dampness, and restrains Deficiency sweating.

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