NATURE:
Warm; sweet and salty; attributive to kidney and liver.
CHARACTERISTICS:
Horn of nippon, prepared as round thin pieces, section of base is whitish
and soft, unpleasant in odor. Nutrient tonic to semen, marrow, sinew, and
cartilage. This is one of the most renowned and popular sexual tonics.
THERAPEUTIC EFFECTS:
Invigorate kidney-yang, supplement essence and blood and strengthen the
tendons and bones. For treating kidney-yang deficiency manifested as cold
limbs, fatigue, backache, impotence, emission and profuse urine, sterility and
leucorrhagia. Also for treating insufficiency of essence and blood manifested
as flaccidity of extremities or mal-development, slow growth in children. It
accelerates the healing of ulcer or wound, increases the level of red blood
cells, increases heart rate and cardiac output.
