INDIVIDUAL HERBS

NAME: CI WU JIA - 刺五加 - RADIX ET CAULIS ACANTHOPANACIS SENTICOSI

Pharmaceutical Latin: Radix et Caulis Acanthopanacis Senticosi
Common English: Spiny Acanthopanacis
Eleuthrococcus Ginseng
Eleuthero
Siberian Ginseng

CATEGORY

Herbs that Tonify Qi

PROPERTIES

Taste Temperature Entering Meridians Dosage
Acrid
Slightly Bitter
Warm
Spleen
Heart
Kidney
9-30g

ACTIONS AND INDICATIONS

Actions Indications/Syndromes

Tonifies the Spleen and Stomach Qi to aid transformation and transportation and warms the Kidneys to aid Yang in warming the Spleen

Weak lower back and legs

A sense of heaviness with anorexia

Fatigue

Augments the Heart Qi and calms the Shen

Heart Qi Deficiency with Insomnia with many dreams, poor concentration and mild depression

Invigorates the Blood and unblocks the collaterals

Problems due to poor peripheral circulation with Blood Stasis signs

CONTRAINDICATIONS, INCOMPATIBILITIES AND HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

CONTRAINDICATIONS
  • Taking this herb with digoxin may increase one's serum digoxin level.
  • This herb increases the effect of Phenobarbital.
  • This herb increases the effects of antibiotics.
  • This herb stimulates the production of adrenalin.
INCOMPATIBILITIES
HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

MAJOR COMBINATIONS

Caulis spatholobi
Ji Xue Tang
Flos Carthami
Hong Hua

Rx. Ginseng
Ren Shen
Rz. Atractylodis Macrocephalae
Bai Zhu
Poria
Fu Ling
Rx. Glycyrrhizae
Gan Cao

Cx. Eucommiae
Du Zhong
Hb. Taxilli
Sang Ji Sheng

Poor peripheral circulation

General fatigue

Anorexia

Low back and knee pain from Kidney Yang Deficiency

Arillus Longan
Long Yan Rou
Sm. Zizyphi Spinosae
Suan Zao Ren
Sm. Platycladi
Bai Zi Ren

 

 

Disturbed sleep from Deficiency

 

 

NOTES

  1. This herb is usually used by itself in prepared form.
  2. This herb is increasingly being used for symptoms of Deficiency such as; general weakness, malaise, anorexia, headache, insomnia, inappropriate laughter, frustration, fearfulness and impotence.
  3. This is a relatively mild herb and can be combined with other tonics to strengthen its effects.