Curculigo
Rhizome (xian mao)
Rhizoma Curculigins
Properties:
Pungent in flavour, highly warm and mildly toxic in
nature, it is tropistic to the liver, kidney and spleen
channels. Being highly pungent, warm, dry and mildly
toxic, it has a strongest power in invigorating
kidney-yang, and has effects of dispelling wind-dampness
and strengthening muscles and bones, serves to treat
syndromes resulted from insufficiency of kidney-yang and
decline of the fire from the gate of life, arthralgia
syndrom of wind-dampness and weak extremities.
Effects: Toifying
kidney-yang, strengthening muscles and bones, dispelling
pathogenic wind and eliminating dampness.
Indications:
1. For
insufficiency of kidney-yang and decline of fire from the
gate of life manifested as impotence, premature
ejeculation, infertility due to sperm coldness, it is
often used with herbs for warming the kidney and
strengthening Yang, such as Herba Epimedii, Radix Morindae
Officinalis, Cortex Eucommiae, Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata,
Cornu Cervi
Pantotrichum, etc.
2. For arthralgia-syndrome
due to wind-dampness, cold pain in the loins and knees,
lumbago due to kidney-deficiency and weak extremities, it
is often used together with Ramulus Loranthi, Radix
Dipsaci, Radix Angelicae Pubescens, Radix Gentianae
Macrophyllae, Padix Achyranthis, Cortex Eucommiae, etc. to
tonify the liver and kidney to dispel wind ：Cdampness.
Dosage and
Administration: 3-10g.
Precautions: Owing
to its pungent, warm and toxic properties, this herb
should not be used in overdose and for a long time.
