Herbs, Roots, Barks, Powders & Dried Flowers / Chinese Herbs
Detailed Product Description
Radix Dioscoreae Oppositae (Shan Yao) Chinese Herb Medicine S-012
Chinese Traditional Herb Medicine
1. Pharmaceutical name:Radix Dioscoreae Oppositae.
2. Latin botanical name:
1). Dioscorea opposita Thunb.
2). D. alata L.,
3). D. esculenta (Lour.) Burk.,
4). D. rotundata (L.) Poir.,
5). D. cayenensis Lam.
6). D. bulbifera L.
7). D. dumetorum Pax.,
8). D. pentaphylla L.
9). D. trifida L.
3.Common Name:Chinese wild yam, dioscorea.(Shan Yao)
4. Properties (characteristics):sweet, neutra.
5.Medical functions:
1). Promotes urination
2). Lower blood sugar
3). Lower blood pressure
4). antibiotic
5). anti aging: use shan yao, ju hua, niu xi, shu di huang
6). Improves digestive system. Correct pixu condition
6.Channels (meridians) entered:kidney, lung, spleen channel.
7. Actions & Indications: Wheat flour stir fried shan yao is used as tonics for spleen and stomach. Lack of appetite and/or chronic diarrhea or vaginal yeast infection with pixu (spleen deficient) syndrome, spermatorrhea and frequent urination due to shenxu (kidney deficient) chronic cough or wheezing, abundance of phlegm due to lung deficiency, fatigue, spontaneous sweating and lack of appetite . Used in thirst and wasting (as in diabetes) with qixu (qi deficient) and yinxu (yin deficient) syndrome. Tonic for kidney yin and kidney yang.
8.Cautions:Do not use in cases of and urination difficulty due to urinary tract infection
