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Introduction To Honey (feng mi)

Honey (feng mi)  

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Properties: It is sweet in flavour, neutral in nature, and acts on the lung, spleen and large intestine channels. Being sweet, neutral and moist in quality for restoring Qi and moistening dryness, it is always a good tonic with effects of strengthening the middle-jiao, relieving spasm, alleviating pain, moistening the lung to arrest cough, and relaxing the bowel to relieve constipation. It is indicated for cold of insufficiency type in the middle-jiao, gastric pain, consumptive diseases, lingering cough, dryness in the bowels and constipation, and for old people and those patients with weakened boy resistance due to chronic diseaes.

Effects: Strengthening the middle-jiao, relieving spasm, moistening the lung to arrest cough and relaxing the bowel to relieve constipation.

Indications:

1. For dryness of the lung and dry cough or consumptive diseases and lingering cough, it is often used in combination with ginseng, dried rehmannia root, poria and other herbs for invigorating Qi and nourishing Yin.

2. For cold of insufficiency type in the middle-jiao and cold pain in the stomach and abdomen, the drug is often used in combination with peony root, liqucorice, cinnamom twig and other herbs for warming the middle-jiao and alleviation pain.

3. For impairment of the body fluid, dryness in the bowels and constipation, the drug can be used solely following its infusion with hot boiled water, or in combination with Chinese angelica root, hemp seed and other herbs for relaxing the bowle to relieve constipation.

In addition, it can also be used to treat intoxication of Sichuan aconite root and prepared aconite root.

Dosage and Administration: 15-30g. Taken following infusion with hot boiled water, or used in pill, powder of soft extract.