Morinda
Root
(ba
ji tian)
Radix
Morindae Officinalis
Properties:
Pungent and sweet in flavour, slightly warm in nature, it
is tropistic to the liver and kidney channels. Being sweet
and warm, it can invigorate kidney-yang; as a pungent and
warm agent, it is capable of dispelling wind-dampness.
Being slightly warm, moist and dry, it has effects of
invigorating Yang and supplementing vital essence and is
especially effective in strengthening muscles and bones,
serving to treat insufficiency of kidney-yang and
deficiency-cold of essence and blood marked by impotence,
infertility and athralgia due to wind-dampness.
Effects:
Tonifying the kidney, invigorating Yang, strengthening
muscles and bones, dispelling wind and eliminating
dampness.
Indications:
1. For insufficiency of
kidney-yang, deficiency-cold of he lower-jiao, impotence
of infertility due to uterin coldness, it is often used
with herbs for tonifying the kidney and strengthening
Yang, such as Herba Epimedii, Rhizoma Curculiginis, Cornu
Cervi Pantotrichum, Cortex Eucommiae, Radix Dipsaci,
Fructus Lycii, etc.
2. For chronic athralgia due to
wind-dampness, weak imminity and deficiency of the liver
and kidney manifested as lassitude of the loins and knees,
weak muscles and bones, cold pain in the limbs, it is
often used with Herba Epimedii, Ramulus Loranthi, Cortex
Eucommiae, Radix Angelicae Pubescens, Radix Achycanthis,
etc. to dispell wind-dampness, tonify the liver and kidney
and strengthen muscles and bones.
Dosage
and Administration:
3-10g.
