Human placenta (ZI HE CHE)
Pharmaceutical Name:
Placenta Hominis
Latin Name:
Common Name:
Human placenta
Part Used:
This substance is the dried placenta from a healthy birth. It is ground into powder for use.
Properties Taste & Meridians:
Sweet and salty in flavor, warm in property, acts on the Lung, Liver, and Kidney channels.
Functions:
Replenishes the Vital Essence, nourishes the Blood, and tonifies the Qi.
Indications & Combinations:
1. For infertility, impotence, seminal emission, soreness in the loins, dizziness, and tinnitus due to Deficient Kidney Qi and Deficient Vital Essence and Blood.
2. For emaciation, listlessness, sallow complexion, and hypogalactia after childbirth when they result from Blood and Qi Deficiency, it is used with Radix Codonopsis (Dang Shen), Radix Astragali Membranaceus (Huang Qi), Radix Rehmanniae Preparata (Shu Di Huang), and Radix Angelicae Sinensis (Dang Gui).
3. For asthma due to Lung and Kidney Deficiency with Internal Heat due to Yin Deficiency, it is used with Radix Rehmanniae Preparata (Shu Di Huang), Carapax et Plastrum Testudinis (Gui Ban), and Cortex Phellodendri (Huang Bai).
4. For epilepsy due to Qi and Blood Deficiency.
Dosage and administration:
1.5–3 g, ground into powder, or used in pills.
Precautions:
