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Mu Li / Oyster Shell
Mu Li
Taste: Salty, Astringent • Temperature: Cool • Category: Calm Shen • Sub Category: Anchor & Settle Shen

Dosage

15-30g

Actions

1. Settles & calms the spirit: for palpitations with anxiety, restlessness, & insomnia.

2. Benefits the yin & anchors the floating yang: for irritability insomnia, dizziness, headache, tinnitus, blurred vision, bad temper, or a red, flushed face due to yin deficiency with ascendant yang.

3. Prevents leakage of fluids: for continuous sweating in patients with steaming bone disorder or in the aftermath of a warm-febrile disease. Also used as an astringent for spontaneous sweating, night sweats, nocturnal emissions, spermatorrhea or vaginal discharge, & uterine bleeding due to deficiency.

4. Softens hardness & dissipated nodules: for various kinds of lumps in the neck such as scrofula & goiter.

5. Absorbs acidity & alleviated pain: used in calcined form for excessive Stomach pain with a sour taste in mouth.

Meridians

Liver, Kidney

Cautions

Not to be used in cases of high fever due to excess with an absense of sweating. May have adverse effects when combined with ma huang, wu zhu yu & xi xin. Overdose may lead to indigestion or constipation.