What are the functions and benefits of White Clove (Flos Caryophylli)?

White Tuber (Bai Dingxiang) is the feces of the sparrow, an animal of the Estrildidae family, and typically has various functions and effects such as promoting digestion and removing food stagnation, improving vision and dissipating corneal opacity, reducing swelling and relieving pain, detoxifying and dissipating nodules, clearing heat and promoting urination. Detailed functions are as follows:

1. Promoting Digestion and Removing Food Stagnation: Bai Dingxiang can promote digestion and help eliminate food accumulation. When symptoms such as epigastric fullness, abdominal distension and pain, belching with sour regurgitation occur due to dietary indiscretion, it can enhance the digestive functions of the spleen and stomach, remove food stagnation, restore normal gastrointestinal digestion and absorption rhythms, and relieve abdominal discomfort.

2. Improving Vision and Dissipating Corneal Opacity: For eye problems such as redness, swelling, pain, and corneal opacity caused by upward inflammation of liver fire or wind-heat disturbing upwards, Bai Dingxiang can clear liver fire or disperse wind-heat, thereby reducing ocular inflammation, promoting the dissipation of corneal opacity, improving vision, restoring clear and bright eyesight, and reducing ocular discomfort.

3. Reducing Swelling and Relieving Pain: Bai Dingxiang can promote local blood and qi circulation, dissipate blood stasis and swelling toxins, effectively relieve pain, inhibit inflammation, aid in the recovery of injured or diseased areas, and reduce localized swelling and pain symptoms.

4. Detoxifying and Dissipating Nodules: When internal accumulation of heat-toxin forms nodules such as phlegm masses or scrofula, Bai Dingxiang can detoxify and discharge pus, resolve nodules, prevent further enlargement or worsening, promote smooth circulation of blood and qi, restore normal local tissue structure and function, and improve the internal bodily environment.

5. Clearing Heat and Promoting Urination: If heat pathogens affect the bladder causing symptoms of urinary tract disorders such as dark and scanty urine, painful and difficult urination, frequent and urgent urination, Bai Dingxiang can clear heat and promote urination, expel heat through urine, regulate the bladder's qi transformation function, restore normal urinary excretion, and alleviate abnormal urinary symptoms.

When using Bai Dingxiang, treatment should be conducted under the guidance of a physician. Pregnant women, individuals with weak constitutions, and those allergic to it should use it cautiously to prevent adverse reactions that may affect health.