What are the effects and contraindications of cloves

Cloves have the effects of warming the middle and lowering the rebelliousness (warming the stomach to prevent stomach qi from rising), tonifying the kidney and helping the yang, and can be used in the treatment of coldness of the spleen and stomach (spleen and stomach weak and cold), eructation (hiccups) and vomiting, eating less and vomiting and diarrhea, cold pain in the heart and abdomen (feeling cold and painful in the location of the heart, mouth, and abdomen), and impotence with kidney deficiency. In addition, cloves should not be used with tulips, and cloves are contraindicated in cases of heat and internal heat of yin deficiency. This product is usually the dried flower buds of cloves in the myrtle family. It belongs to the spleen, stomach, lung and kidney meridians, and has the effect of warming the middle and lowering the rebelliousness, tonifying the kidney and helping the yang, and it can be used to treat conditions such as coldness of the spleen and stomach, eructation and vomiting, scanty eating and vomiting and diarrhea, cold pains in the heart and abdomen, and impotence due to deficiency in the kidneys. Cloves are afraid of tulip gold, so cloves should not be used with tulip gold to prevent adverse reactions. Cloves are pungent and warm in nature, so they are forbidden to be taken by people with fever and internal heat of yin deficiency. Cloves as a traditional Chinese medicine, need to be used under the guidance of a doctor’s diagnosis, not blindly taken on their own.