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Long Gu / Dragon Bone
Long Gu
Taste: Sweet, Astringent • Temperature: Neutral • Category: Calm Shen • Sub Category: Anchor & Settle Shen

Dosage

15-30g, cook 20-30 minutes before adding other herbs, use raw to settle & calm spirit, calcined as an astringent. Crush before using in decoctions.

Actions

1. Settles & calms the spirit: for emotional distress, restlessness, insomnia, palpitations with anxiety, or even seizures or mania-withdrawal due to an agitated Heart & spirit.

2. Calms the Liver & anchors & preserves the floating yang: for irritability, restlessness, dizziness, vertigo, blurred vision, & bad temper due to Liver yin deficiency with deficient yang transgressing upward.

3. Prevents leackage of fluids: for loss of fluids due to deficiency including spermatorrhea, night sweats, spontaneous sweating, nocturnal emissions, vaginal discharge, & uterine bleeding.

4.Used topically (calcined & powdered) for chronic, nonhealing sores & ulcerations.

Meridians

Heart, Kidney, Liver

Cautions

Not to be used with patterns of damp-heat or externally-contracted excessive disorders. May conteract with gypsum (shi gao) & fish.