Cornus
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Other Names : Cornus officinalis, dogwood, Japanese cornel, Japanese cornelian cherry, Cornelian cherries, Corni Fructus, Asiatic Comelian Cherry Fruit, Japanese cornel fruit, shān zhū yú, 山茱萸, 山茱萸, 山茱萸, Sansuyu 산수유, sanshuyu, サンシュユ.
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Special Precautions of Cornus
- Be careful not to confuse it with Jamaican dogwood.
Benefits and uses of Cornus are
- Insufficiency of liver and kidney : It is sour, warm but not dry in nature, mildly tonifying. It is an important herb to tonify yin and yang evenly for it can tonify liver and kidney, especially nourish essence.
- Seminal emission, spermatorrhea, enuresis, frequent urination : It can tonify kidney and essence, and also secure essence and reduce urination. Therefore, it is an important herb for astringing essence to relieve emission, just for it can treat both the branch and root of emission due to kidney deficiency.
- Metrorrhagia and metrostaxis : It can tonify liver and kidney, strengthen thoroughfare and conception vessels, astringe to stop bleeding. For metrorrhagia and metrostaxis due to liver and kidney deficiency, insecurity of thoroughfare and conception vessels, it is combined with herbs to tonify liver ans kidney, regulate menorrhea.
- Profuse sweating and collapse due to deficiency : It can astringe to stop sweating. For original qi collapse due to sweating, collapse of deficiency due to long-term disease, it is combined with qi-tonifying and yang-restoring herbs.
- erectile dysfunction : A randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled study found that a Chinese herbal formula that mainly consisted of Cornus officinalis was not only effective at improving erectile function, but it was also safe for the treatment of erectile dysfunction.
- A chemical substance isolated from Cornus officinalis also may enhance the motility of human sperm.
