Herbs That Stabilize and Bind - Functional Grouping Relationships
Herbs That Stabilize and Bind - General Concepts
- Stabilizing and binding herbs most often have sour and astringent properties. They are useful for conditions involving excess discharges or structures slipping from proper positions (uterine prolapse, excessive sweat, diarrhea, excessive urination). These herbs must be combined with appropriate herbs or formulas to treat the root cause of these conditions, most often deficiency syndromes. Generally these herbs will only treat isolated aspects of these conditions.
Herbs That Stabilize and Bind - Section Summary
- Shan Zhu Yu, Wu Wei Zi - strong astringents, wide applications:
- Shan Zhu Yu - tonifies the liver, kidneys, and jing.
- Wu Wei Zi - tonifies the lung, kidneys, and qi.
- He Zi, Wu Mei, Rou Dou Kou - binds the intestines.
- Lian Zi - treats chronic diarrhea, also spermatorrhea or vaginal discharge.
- Chun Pi - chronic diarrhea due to damp heat.
- Jin Ying Zi, Qian Shi - retains the essence.
- Qian Shi - tonifies the spleen and resolves dampness, good for diarrhea.
- Nuo Dao Gen, Ma Huang Gen, Fu Xiao Mai - stabilizes the exterior and prevents abnormal sweating.
- Fu Xiao Mai - augments the qi and eliminates heat.
- He Zi, Bai Guo, Wu Wei Zi - contains lung qi and suppresses cough.
- Bai Guo - strongly arrests wheezing, good for excesses.
- Wu Mei and He Zi - work on both the lungs and the large intestine in treating chronic cough with lung deficiency and chronic diarrhea.
- He Zi - stronger descending action, also for phlegm-heat effecting the throat and the lungs.
- Wu Mei - generates fluids, intestinal parasites.
- Wu Bei Zi, Hai Piao Xiao - stabilizes the menses, stops excessive uterine bleeding.
- Fu Pen Zi, Qian Shi - urinary frequency and incontinence.
The Herbs That Stabilize and Bind Grouping Has 17 Herbs In Our Database
Bai Guo
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- Nourish the lungs, stop wheezing - cough with copious sputum.
- Eliminate dampness, stop discharges - leukorrhea, turbid/frequent urine, deficiency and damp heat patterns.
- Stabilize the lower burner - urinary frequency, incontinence, spermatorrhea.
Chi Shi Zhi
- Halloysite, Kaolin
- Binds the intestines, stops cold diarrhea - cold diarrhea with mucus and bleeding.
- Contain the blood, stop bleeding - uterine bleeding, excess menses, prolapse.
- Promotes healing of wounds, chronic ulcers, topically for weeping damp sores.
- Cautions
- Antagonizes Rou Gui
Chun Pi
- Bark or Root Bark of Ailanthus
- Clears heat, dries dampness, binds up intestines - chronic diarrhea due to damp-heat, with blood in the stool, chronic vaginal discharge due to damp-heat.
- Kills parasites - roundworms.
Fu Pen Zi
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- Tonify kidneys, stabilize kidney qi, binds the essence, restrains urine - incontinence, enuresis, spermatorrhea, frequent urination, premature ejaculation.
- Liver and kidney deficiency - poor vision, sore low back, impotence.
Fu Xiao Mai
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- Stops excessive sweating from deficiency patterns - nightsweats, spontaneous sweating.
- Nourish the heart - palpitations, insomnia, irritability.
- Childhood bedwetting.
Hai Piao Xiao
- Cuttlefish Bone
- Stops uterine bleeding with vaginal discharge - useful for deficiency patterns.
- Retains essence due to kidney deficiency - nocturnal emission, premature ejaculation, leukorrhea.
- Harmonizes the stomch - epigastric pain, acid reflux.
- Resolves dampness, promotes healing - topically for rashes and ulcers.
- Diarrhea from deficiency patterns - pain CV 8 (navel), diarrhea/dysentery.
He Zi
- Myrobalan Fruit, Terminalia, Chebula
- Binds the intestines - hot or cold diarrhea, dysentery.
- Leakage of lung qi - cough, wheezing, loss of voice.
Jin Ying Zi
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- Stabilize the kidneys, retain essence - spermatorrhea, incontinence, leukorrhea, rectal prolapse, excessive uterine bleeding.
- Binds the intestines - stops diarrhea and dysentery.
Lian Zi
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- Tonify the spleen and binds - chronic diarrhea, loss of appetite.
- Tonify the kidneys and stabilize the jing - stop leukorrhea and spermatorrhea, premature ejaculation.
- Nourish heart, calm the spirit - irritability, anxiety, palpitations, insomnia.
Ma Huang Gen
- Ephedra Root
- Deficiency sweating - night sweats, spontaneous sweating, post partum sweating.
Nuo Dao Gen Xu
- Glutinous Rice Root
- Stops sweating caused by deficiency - nightsweats, spontaneous sweats.
- Deficient yin fevers.
Qian Shi
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- Strengthen spleen - stop diarrhea, good for children.
- Stabilize kidneys, retains jing - patterns of kidney qi deficiency with nocturnal emission, premature ejaculation, spermatorrhea, urinary frequency.
- Expels damp - damp heat or deficient leukorrhea.
Rou Dou Kou
- Nutmeg Seeds
- Binds the intestines, stops chronic/daybreak diarrhea due to cold from spleen and kidney deficiency.
- Warms the middle burner, moves Qi - alleviates pain in abdomen, vomiting due to cold from deficiency of the spleen and stomach.
Shan Zhu Yu
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- Stabilize the kidneys, retain the essence - leaking of fluids due to weak essence, excessive urination, incontinence, spermatorrhea, excessive sweating, for devastated yang and collapsed qi, as in shock.
- Tonify the liver and kidney - lightheadedness, dizziness, impotence, sore back and knees, tonifies the jing and assists the yang.
- Stabilize menses - excessive uterine bleeding, prolonged menses, weak effect.
Wu Bei Zi
- Gallnut of Chinese Sumac
- Contain leakage of lung qi - stop chronic cough due to deficient lung.
- Binds the intestines, stops diarrhea - diarrhea, dysentery, chronic blood in the stool, rectal prolapse.
- Restrains leakage - nocturnal emission, spermatorrhea, excessive sweat, bleeding.
- Absorbs moisture, reduces swellings, relieves fire toxicity - topically for sores, ringworm, ulcerated skin, scars.
Wu Mei
- Mume Fruit
- Inhibit leakage of lung qi - lung deficiency cough.
- Binds intestines - chronic diarrhea or dysentery.
- Generates fluids - alleviates thirst due to heat from deficiency or qi and yin deficiency, xiao ke.
- Expels roundworm - alleviates abdominal pain.
- Stops bleeding - blood in the stool, uterine bleeding with blood deficiency signs (dryness, thirst, parched mouth).
Wu Wei Zi
- Schisandra Fruit/Seed
- Constrain leakage of lung qi, enriches kidney yin - chronic cough and wheezing due to kidney and lung deficiency.
- Tonify the kidneys, bind the essence, stop diarrhea - nocturnal emission, spermatorrhea, leukorrhea, frequent urination, daybreak diarrhea.
- Inhibits sweating, generates fluids - thirst with excess sweat, spontaneous sweating, nightsweats, xiao ke.
- Quiet the spirit, calm the heart - irritability, palpitations, insomnia due to blood deficiency or kidney and heart yin injury.
- Cautions
- Do Not Use With Presence Of OPI.
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