Yang Tonics

These remedies support the active energies, particularly those of the Kidneys (but also Heart and Spleen).

Deficient Kidney yang leads to listlessness with a feeling of cold and cold extremities, back and loins; there may be weak legs, poor reproductive function, frequency of micturition, nocturia, diarrhea (especially early in the morning), pale complexion and submerged weak pulses.

Deficiency affecting the Heart involves poor performance and coordination associated with profuse cold sweating, asthmatic states, thoracic or anginal pain on exertion, palpitations and fear attacks, cyanosis, white tongue coating and/or diminished, hesitant or intermittent pulses.

Plant remedies traditionally used as yang tonics:

• Eucommia ulmoides (du zhong)
• Juglans regia (walnut – hu tao ren)
• Tigonella foenum-gaecum(fenugreek – hu lu ba)
• Morinda officinalis (Indian Mulberry, ba ji)

Source;  Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy, 2nd Edition, 2013 by Kerry Bone and Simon Mills. Indicated by (Bone & Mills)