Tai Zi Shen - Tonify Qi  
      SP, LU (10-30g) | 
  
	 
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	Tai Zi Shen - What happens when the Shen is tied 
      in knots? 
      If you "Tai Zi Shen" in knots its harder to tonify 
      the SP and nourish the ST and generate fluids 
      to moisten dryness in your body.  
       
      An unhappy wife named Li Lu usually ties the shen in knots (cc: 
      incompatible with Li Lu) and causes a very 
      poor constitution. 
       
	     
              English Name: psuedostellaria, heterophylly false starwort root 
               
		 
              Pharmaceutical Name: Radix Psuedostellariae 
            
		 
              Properties:  sweet, slightly bitter, neutral 
            
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			   Explanation of Key Words in this story... | 
		 
		
          | tonify SP and nourish the ST | 
          tonifies SP; moistens dryness | 
		 
		
          | generating fluids to moisten dryness | 
          generates fluids and moistens dryness | 
		 
	 
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      Tai Zi Shen
      Actions and Indications 
        - Tonifies SP; nourishes ST (lack of appetite, fatigue, 
          dry mouth, spontaneous sweating due to qi or yin deficiency) 
 
        - Generates fluids; moistens dryness (dry cough, SOB, 
          scanty sputum, thirst and injury to fluids after febrile disease; unrelenting 
          fever or summer-heat) 
 
        - (cc: incompatible with Li Lu)
 
        - (note: very gentle, weaker than ren shen, xi yang shen, or dang shen... 
          often used for patients with very poor constitution)
 
       
		Special Notes:
        - Tai Zi Shen is effetive to treat pediatric pneumonia and hepatitis.
 
		 
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