Jugulans Nux, Walnut, He Tao 核桃

He Tao (TCM)
Akhrot (Unani)
Star ka སྟར་ཀ་ (Tibet)
Picture Della Materia Medicinale,
Andrea Valuassori, 1562

Picture Krauterbuch, Lonitzer, 1578

Picture Botanische wandplaten, 1904–1914

Picture Kohler’s Medizinal Pflanzen, 1887

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Botanical name:


Jugulans regia

Parts used:


Ripe Nut; Confected Nuts

Temperature & Taste:


Warm, dry. Sweet
confected Walnuts are Warm, moist and Sweet.

Classifications:


2K. RESOLVENT.    2S. STRENGTHENING
3C. ALEXIPHARMIC.    3F. LITHONTRIPTIC.    3I. APHRODISIAC.    3J. INCREASE SEMEN
4a. CEPHALIC.    4e. STOMACHIC.    4g. HEPATIC.    4j. NERVINE

Uses:


1. Resists Poison:
-long regarded as effective to resist Infection during Epidemics and to preserve from Toxin and Venom (West)
-‘disperses pyogenic infection, accelerates the development of Smallpox, and detoxifies the toxin of Copper’. (Li Shi Zhen)

2. Warms and strengthens the Kidneys:
-Lower back pain, frequent Urination, Spermatorrhea (TCM, West)
-Infertility (TCM, West)
-‘tonifies Qi and Nourishes Blood’. (Li Shi Zhen)

3. Strengthens the Brain and Nerves:
-benefits Memory and Brain, increases Intelligence
-Paralysis
-Tinnitus and degenerative Brain diseases (preserved Walnuts are stronger)

4. Strengthen the Lungs, Stops Cough:
-Cough and Wheezing from cold and deficiency (TCM)
-fried Walnut is used in Unani

5. Strengthens the Heart:
-Benefits the Heart and Circulation: Heart weakness, Heart disease in the aged
-Hypertension, high Cholesterol

6. Moisten the Intestines:
-constipation in the old or weak (TCM, West)

7. Astringes:
-old walnuts are burned to make them more astringent: Diarrhea, excess Menstruation

8. Clears Stones:
-fried Walnuts powdered are effective for Kidney and Gall Stones

9. Kills Worms:
-“The use of walnut in larger doses expels small Worms and Tapeworm”. (Avicenna)

10. Externally:
-“Its oil is useful in Rodent Ulcers, Erysipelas and Fistula of the Eye.” (Avicenna)
-“all kinds of Walnut … are plastered over swollen Breasts”. (Avicenna)

Dose:


Nuts in Decoction: 10–30 grams
Or eat 5–7 nuts per day

Correctives:


Citrus fruit; Sours in general

Substitutes:


1. Almond, Almond oil as a Brain tonic
2. White Behen as an aphrodisiac and Kidney tonic
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Main Combinations:


1. King Mithridates Remedy Against all Poison, Walnut  … available in PRO version
2. To Warm and strengthen the Kidneys, Walnut with  … available in PRO version
3. Sterility, Walnut with  … available in PRO version
4. Back Pain from Kidney weakness:
i. Walnut with  … available in PRO version
ii. Walnut with  … available in PRO version
5. Paralysis, Walnut with  … available in PRO version
6. To strengthen the Brain and Nerves, Walnut   … available in PRO version
7. Wheezing from Kidney and Lung deficiency, Walnut with  … available in PRO version
8. Constipation with dryness, Walnut with  … available in PRO version

Major Formulas


Decoction for Sterility (Quercetan)
Electuary of Nuts (Mithridate)
Antidote for Back Pain (Galen)
Antidote for Cold Lumbar, for Venery, and Defect of Semen (Nicholas)
Compound for Paralysis (Salerno)

Cautions:


1. Heat-Cough or Phlegm-Heat
2. Deficient Heat

Main Preparations used:


Preserved Nuts, Expressed Oil of the Nuts