Oyster is salty in taste and slightly cold in nature. Attributed to the liver, gallbladder and kidney meridians.
Oyster is salty in flavor and slightly cold in nature. It belongs to the liver, gallbladder and kidney meridians. Used in raw form, it has the effects of submerging yang and tonifying yin (restraining excessive liver yang and nourishing yin and fluids), softening and dispersing knots (softening and dispersing hard lumps), and calming and tranquilizing the mind. Used in calcined form, it has the effects of astringent and solidifying astringency (astringing and consolidating), and restraining acidity and relieving pain (inhibiting gastric acid and relieving pain).
The raw use of the drug can treat restlessness of the heart and mind, palpitations and insomnia, dizziness of the head and eyes, scrofula (mainly referring to tuberculosis of the lymph nodes in the neck), and obstruction in the abdomen (the appearance of tangible or intangible lumps in the abdomen, with a feeling of distension and pain). Calcium can be used to treat spontaneous sweating (involuntary sweating during the day, aggravated by the slightest movement of sweating), night sweating (abnormal sweating after going to sleep, sweating stops after waking up), spermatorrhea and slippery spermatozoa, and stomach pain and generalized acidity.
Chinese medicine should be used under the guidance of a professional Chinese medicine practitioner, and should not be used blindly on one’s own to avoid causing adverse reactions.