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Jugulans Nux, Walnut, He Tao 核桃

He Tao (TCM)
Akhrot (Unani)
Star ka
སྟར་ཀ་ (Tibet)

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Della Materia Medicinale,
Andrea Valuassori, 1562

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Krauterbuch, Lonitzer, 1578

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Botanische wandplaten, 1904–1914

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Kohler's Medizinal Pflanzen, 1887

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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

Uses:
1. Resists Poison:


2. Warms and strengthens the Kidneys:

3. Strengthens the Brain and Nerves:

4. Strengthen the Lungs, Stops Cough:

5. Strengthens the Heart:

6. Moisten the Intestines:

7. Astringes:

8. Clears Stones:


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Dose:
Nuts in Decoction: 10–30 grams
Or eat 5–7 nuts per day

Correctives:
Citrus fruit; Sours in general

Substitutes:
1. Almond, Almond oil as a Brain tonic
2. White Behen as an aphrodisiac and Kidney tonic
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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)

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Cautions:
1. Heat-Cough or Phlegm-Heat
2. Deficient Heat

Main Preparations used:
Preserved Nuts, Expressed Oil of the Nuts

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