Glossy
Privet Fruit
(nu
zhen zi)
Fructus
Ligustri Lucidi
Properties:
The
herb is sweet and bitter in flavour, cool in nature and
acts on the liver and kidney channels. Being sweet, cool
and moist in nature for nourishing Yin and clearing heat,
the herb mainly tonifies Yin of he liver and kidney to
clear heat of deficiency type, and is good for nourishing
the liver and improving vision. It is indicated for Yin
deficiency of the liver and kidney, hectic fever due to
consumption, dizziness, weak vision and other syndromes.
Effects: Tonifying
Yin, nourishing the kidney and liver and improving vision.
Indications:
1. To treat Yin
deficiency of the liver and kidney with symptoms of aching
and weakness of the waist and knees, dizziness, tinnitus,
premature graying hair, and weak or blurred vision, the
herb is often used in combination with chrysanthemum
flower, wolfberry fruit, eclipta, dodder seed and other
herbs for nourishing the kidney and liver, tonifying Yin
and improving visIon.
2. To treat fever
due to Yin deficiency, night sweat and spermatorrhea, the
herb can be used in combination with dried rehmannia root,
dogwood fruit, anemarrhena rhizome, scrophularia root,
wolfberry bark and other herbs for tonifying Yin and
clearing heat of deficiency type.
Dosage and
Administration:
6-15g
