Amber

【Functions and Indication】Quiet the spirit, disperse aggregations and move water. For treatment of fright wind and epilepsy, abdominal pain caused by blood stasis, scar pain, inhibited urination and bloody and painful urination.

【Administration and Dosage】1-2g, grind it into powder for oral administration or turn it into pills or powders for use.

【Characteristics】First appeared in the Master Lei's Discourse on Drug Processing, natural amber is listed as a top grade medicine by the Supplementary Records of Famous Physicians. It has fright-settling and spirit-quieting, urine-disinhibiting and stasis-dissipating effects, making it a heavy settling spirit-quieting medicine commonly used in TCM. As the produce of a tree of the pine genus, amber is used for palpitations with a fire-draining effect. It is applicable to agitated patients and patients with damp-heat and stagnation in the bladder. According to modern pharmacological studies, it is effective in treatment of palpitations, insomnia, dreaminess, depression, hydronephrosis and lithangiuria.