The efficacy and effects of dragon bones

Dragon bone, also known as calcined dragon bone and white dragon bone, is sweet and astringent in taste, flat in nature, and belongs to the heart, liver and kidney meridians. It is commonly used as an astringent and sedative herb. Here we will learn what are the effects and functions of the magical dragon bone.

Calming and tranquilizing

Dragon bone is a heavy sedative, mainly entering the heart and liver meridians, and can calm the mind, often used for palpitations and palpitations, insomnia and forgetfulness, panic and epilepsy.

Calming the liver and invigorating the yang

Dragon bone enters the liver meridian and is heavy and subdued. It has a strong effect of pacifying the liver and subduing the yang, so it is often used for dizziness, irritability, sudden fainting, slanting of the mouth and eyes, and wind symptoms of hemiplegia caused by deficiency of liver yin and hyperactivity of liver yang.

Strengthening astringency

Dragon bone is astringent in taste and astringent in nature, and is an important medicine for astringency and fixing astringency. It can be used for spontaneous sweating and night sweating, seminal emission and urine loss, leakage and dysentery, and other slippery evidence such as prolonged diarrhea and dysentery.

Astringent

It is used for sores and ulcers that do not close for a long time, umbilical sores and bleeding golden sores.

Applications of Dragon Bone

Treating insomnia and dreaminess

1、Commonly used with cinnabar and magnet to strengthen the calming effect of the mind. 2、If the heart fire disturbs the mind and disturbs insomnia, it is used together with Gardenia jasminoides and Huang Lian. 3, if blood does not nourish the heart, palpitations and insomnia, with angelica, jujube seeds used together. 4. If the blood does not nourish the heart, palpitations and insomnia, it is used with Acorus calamus and Fructus distichus.

Treatment of convulsions in epilepsy

For internal disturbance of phlegm and heat, epileptic convulsions and seizures, it is often used together with sour date palm, bileanax, antelope horn, hooked vine, etc. to resolve phlegm and relieve wind and spasm.

Treating dizziness and dizziness

For dizziness and irritability caused by hyperactivity of liver yang, it is often used with ocher, raw oyster and raw peony to make Liver Quenching and Wind Quenching Soup.

Treatment of spontaneous sweating and night sweating

In cases of superficial deficiency and night sweating or yin deficiency, it can be used with oyster, fructus wheat, Wu Wei Zi, Sheng Di Huang and Huang Qi. In case of sweating and loss of Yang, with cold extremities and volatile pulse, it is combined with ginseng and fenugreek to replenish Qi and return Yang to save the body.

Treatment of spermatorrhea due to kidney deficiency and slippage

Treating spermatorrhea caused by kidney deficiency, or spermatorrhea, whenever used with gorgonian, salvia and oyster, to make Jinluo Guzheng Wan.

Treatment of frequent urination

For frequent urination caused by deficiency of the heart and kidneys, often used in combination with mulberry sheath, tortoise shell and Fu Shen.

Treating women with leakage

For women with ache and leakage, it can be treated with dragon bones with angelica, alum and mugwort.

Treating prolonged diarrhea and dysentery

Dragon bones combined with red stone resin can strengthen the effect of astringent intestines to stop diarrhea and help relieve the symptoms of persistent diarrhea.

Treating excessive nosebleeds

Dragon bones have astringent and astringent effects, which can help stop bleeding. For epistaxis, use dragon bones finely ground and blow into the nose and ears.

Contraindications to the use of keel bone

Not suitable for those with damp-heat stagnation.