Jugulans Nux, Walnut, He Tao 核桃
He Tao (TCM)
Akhrot (Unani)
Akhrot (Unani)
Della Materia Medicinale,
Andrea Valuassori, 1562
Andrea Valuassori, 1562
Krauterbuch, Lonitzer, 1578
Botanische wandplaten, 1904–1914
Kohler's Medizinal Pflanzen, 1887
Botanical name:
Jugulans regia
Parts used:
Ripe Nut; Confected Nuts
Temperature & Taste:
Warm, dry. Sweet
confected Walnuts are Warm, moist and Sweet.
Classifications:
2K. RESOLVENT. 2S. STRENGTHENING
3C. ALEXIPHARMIC. 3F. LITHONTRIPTIC. 3I. APHRODISIAC. 3J. INCREASE SEMEN
4a. CEPHALIC. 4e. STOMACHIC. 4g. HEPATIC. 4j. NERVINE
Jugulans regia
Parts used:
Ripe Nut; Confected Nuts
Temperature & Taste:
Warm, dry. Sweet
confected Walnuts are Warm, moist and Sweet.
Classifications:
2K. RESOLVENT. 2S. STRENGTHENING
3C. ALEXIPHARMIC. 3F. LITHONTRIPTIC. 3I. APHRODISIAC. 3J. INCREASE SEMEN
4a. CEPHALIC. 4e. STOMACHIC. 4g. HEPATIC. 4j. NERVINE
Uses:
1. Resists Poison:
-long regarded as effective to resist Infection during Epidemics and to preserve from Toxin and Venom
2. Warms and strengthens the Kidneys:
-Lower back pain, frequent Urination, Spermatorrhea (TCM, West)
3. Strengthens the Brain and Nerves:
-benefits Memory and Brain
4. Strengthen the Lungs, Stops Cough:
-Cough and Wheezing from deficiency (TCM)
5. Strengthens the Heart:
-Benefits the Heart and Circulation: Heart weakness, Heart disease in the aged
6. Moisten the Intestines:
-constipation in the old or weak
7. Astringes:
-old walnuts are burned to make them more astringent: Diarrhea, excess Menstruation
8. Clears Stones:
-fried Walnuts powdered are effective for Kidney and Gall Stones
Main Combinations:
1. King Mithridates Remedy Against all Poison, Walnut ... available in PRO version
2. To Warm and strengthen the Kidneys, Walnut with ... available in PRO version
3. Sterility, Walnut with ... available in PRO version
4. Back Pain from Kidney weakness:
i. Walnut with ... available in PRO version
ii. Walnut with ... available in PRO version
5. Paralysis, Walnut with ... available in PRO version
6. To strengthen the Brain and Nerves, Walnut ... available in PRO version
7. Wheezing from Kidney and Lung deficiency, Walnut with ... available in PRO version
8. Constipation with dryness, Walnut with ... available in PRO version
Major Formulas
Decoction for Sterility (Quercetan)
Electuary of Nuts (Mithridate)
Antidote for Back Pain (Galen)
Antidote for Cold Lumbar, for Venery, and Defect of Semen (Nicholas)
Compound for Paralysis (Salerno)
1. King Mithridates Remedy Against all Poison, Walnut ... available in PRO version
2. To Warm and strengthen the Kidneys, Walnut with ... available in PRO version
3. Sterility, Walnut with ... available in PRO version
4. Back Pain from Kidney weakness:
i. Walnut with ... available in PRO version
ii. Walnut with ... available in PRO version
5. Paralysis, Walnut with ... available in PRO version
6. To strengthen the Brain and Nerves, Walnut ... available in PRO version
7. Wheezing from Kidney and Lung deficiency, Walnut with ... available in PRO version
8. Constipation with dryness, Walnut with ... available in PRO version
Major Formulas
Decoction for Sterility (Quercetan)
Electuary of Nuts (Mithridate)
Antidote for Back Pain (Galen)
Antidote for Cold Lumbar, for Venery, and Defect of Semen (Nicholas)
Compound for Paralysis (Salerno)
Cautions:
1. Heat-Cough or Phlegm-Heat
2. Deficient Heat
Main Preparations used:
Preserved Nuts, Expressed Oil of the Nuts
1. Heat-Cough or Phlegm-Heat
2. Deficient Heat
Main Preparations used:
Preserved Nuts, Expressed Oil of the Nuts