Wiseman’s Chinese Medical Database

zhǐ jù zǐ / 枳椇子 / 枳椇子 / honey tree fruit;

Latin pharmacognostic name: Hoveniae Fructus seu Semen

Alternate English names: Japanese raisin tree fruit

Alternate Chinese names: 白石枣 bái shí zǎo; 鸡橘子 jī jú zǐ; 枳枣 zhǐ zǎo; 刺枸子 cì gǒu zǐ; 石李 shí lǐ; 甜半夜 tián bàn yè; 鸡距子 jī jù zǐ

Origin: Plant

Use: medicinal

Category: Water-disinhibiting dampness-percolating agents / Urine-disinhibiting strangury-freeing agents

Properties: Sweet and sour; balanced; nontoxic*.

Channel entry: Stomach channel.*

Indications:

• Resolves the effects of alcohol; eliminates vexation and thirst: Inebriation; vexation and thirst in febrile disease.
• Disinhibits urine and stool: Inhibited urination; dry bound stool.

  Dosage & Method:

  Oral: Decoct (9–15g); steep in liquor to make as medicinal wine; use in pills.

  Warning:

  Contraindicated in stomach vacuity cold.