What are the effects and functions of mother clove?

In fact, mother clove is also used clinically, mainly as an antibacterial agent. If used correctly, mother clove can actually become a medicine for warming the kidney and strengthening yang. It can also promote qi circulation and relieve pain, and relieve symptoms of nausea, vomiting and white greasy tongue coating.

1. Warming the middle and relieving counterflow: This product is pungent and warm, enters the spleen and stomach meridians, can warm the middle and dispel cold, is good at relieving counterflow, and is an important medicine for treating vomiting and hiccups due to cold in the body.

2. Warming the kidney and strengthening yang: This product is warm in nature and enters the kidney meridian. "Bencao Gangmu" records: "It treats kidney qi, strengthens yang, and warms the waist and knees." Therefore, it has the effect of warming the kidney and strengthening yang, and is often used for symptoms such as impotence, coldness, running pig, cold pain in the waist and legs.

3. Promote qi and relieve pain: This herb is pungent in taste and aromatic in aroma. It can promote qi and relieve pain. It is commonly used for chest pain, epigastric pain, lower abdominal pain, and hernia pain.

4. Refreshing and invigorating the mind: This product is spicy and warm in nature. Pungent in nature, it can disperse the qi, warm the body and overcome cold and dampness, and its aromatic property can open the orifices, transform dampness and eliminate filth. "Bencao Zaixin" says that it "opens the nine orifices and relieves depressed qi." Therefore, it has the effect of refreshing the mind and opening the orifices. It can be used to treat dampness and turbidity, which block the clear orifices, disturb the mind and cause mental confusion, flowy phlegm, nausea and vomiting, greasy white tongue coating, and slippery pulse.

5. Repel filth and kill insects. This product has a fragrant smell and can ward off filth. "Haiyao Bencao" says: "It can kill insects, cure five types of hemorrhoids, and ward off evil and evil." Therefore, clove has the effect of warding off filth and killing insects. This crystal has been commonly used in the past dynasties to treat injuries caused by eating crabs, carbuncles, and nasal polyps. It can be taken internally or applied externally. So what are the contraindications of clove? Clove should not be taken by people with fever or internal heat due to yin deficiency. People with hiccups caused by stomach heat or accompanied by thirst, bitter taste and dry mouth should not eat it; people with febrile diseases and internal heat due to yin deficiency should avoid eating it.