Placenta Hominis
Source
The normal placenta of Homo Sapiens L, family Hominidae. Prepared by removing
the amnion, umbilical cord and blood, and drying after cooked.
Characteristics
Placenta discoidal, 9-15 cm in diameter. Outer surface yellow-brown, one
side wrinkled and protruding, the other side flat, with small blood vessels.
Hard and brittle in texture, unpleasant in odour. Sweet and salty in taste,
warm in nature, and attributive to heart, lung and kidney channels.
Indication
1. Invigorate the kidney and supplement essence: For insufficiency of
kidney-yang and kidney-essence manifested as sterility, impotence, emission,
dizziness and tinnitus.
2.
Invigorate vital energy and enrich blood: For insufficiency of vital energy
and blood manifested as shortness of breath, fatigue, poor appetite, and
galactoschesis for the debilitated who are susceptable to common cold
and skin infection.
3. Invigorate the lung and relieve cough: For lung-deficiency or deficiency
of the lung, spleen and kidney with dyspneic cough.
Pharmacological
Action
1. Anti-inflammatory.
2. Exerting gonadotropic effect.
3. Promoting the growth of young animals.
4. Relieving the leukopenia induced by radiation or chemicals.
Administration Pill or powder: 1.5-2.0g bid or tid.