Medicinal value of Alpinia oxyphylla

I believe that most people are very unfamiliar with Alpinia oxyphylla, and may not even know what its main use is. However, friends who are familiar with Chinese medicinal materials know that Alpinia oxyphylla is gray-brown in color and has protruding uneven ridges on the surface. Its shape is very similar to a date pit. Alpinia oxyphylla is a herbal material with strong medicinal value. What we are going to introduce to you here today is the medicinal value of Alpinia oxyphylla. I hope you can learn about it.

Functions of Alpinia oxyphylla: warming and nourishing, consolidating and arresting, warming the spleen and stopping diarrhea, consolidating saliva, warming the kidney and consolidating essence and reducing urine. It is mainly used to treat spleen and kidney deficiency and cold, abdominal pain and diarrhea; or kidney deficiency and cold with frequent urination, enuresis, spermatorrhea, and leukorrhea; or chronic diarrhea caused by spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, and uncontrollable saliva outflow from the mouth.

Application of Alpinia oxyphylla in tonic

1. Spleen deficiency with excessive salivation and spontaneous saliva flow with a clear and thin texture. Take 9 grams each of Alpinia oxyphylla, Atractylodes macrocephala, Codonopsis pilosula, and Poria cocos, and 6 grams of dried tangerine peel. Take it in decoction, 1 dose per day.

2. For kidney deficiency, enuresis and frequent urination, take equal parts of Alpinia oxyphylla and Linderae odoratum. Grind into fine powder, boil the yam with wine until it becomes a paste, and make pills as big as sycamore seeds. Take 9 grams each time, with light salt soup or rice drink, 3 times a day. Or stir-fry 60 grams each of Alpinia oxyphylla and Psoralea corylifolia with salt. Grind into fine powder, divide into 6 packets, take 1 packet every morning with rice soup (double the amount for adults), 6 days as a course of treatment.

3. Deficiency of spleen and kidney, diarrhea at dawn. Take 10g each of Alpinia oxyphylla, Psoralea corylifolia and Nutmeg. Decoction in water, 1 dose per day, to warm the kidney and spleen and stop diarrhea.

I believe the medicinal value of Alpinia oxyphylla has been clearly introduced to you in the above article. Although several medicinal prescriptions are introduced in the article, if you need it, it is recommended that you go to the hospital for examination first. After confirming the specific condition, take the prescription according to the doctor's advice to treat the condition.