(Cnidium Fruit)
"Snake's Bed Seed"

She Chuang Zi essential oil's aroma of warm peety earth, salty sweat, and bitter antiseptic overtones, vibrates at the bridge of the nose and eyes, warms in the lower abdomen and stimulates the genital region. The translation of She Chuang Zi, "Snake's Bed Seeds," refers to the observation that snakes often hibernate under the plant and eat its seeds which symbolically illustrates its benefits to sexual and reproductive function by fortifying the Kidney yang.

Traditionally, She Chuang Zi is categorized as a topical application herb. The CO2 extracted essential oil adapts well to topical treatment for external indications such as weeping, itchy skin lesions, parasites, scabies, ringworm, tinea, trichomonas, fungal infections, chronic eczema, rashes or swelling and pain of the groin and genital region and hemorrhoids.

Combine She Chuang Zi oil with Wu Wei Zi or Rou Gui essential oils for Kidney yang deficiency with wind, damp and cold leading to low back pain, leg and knee pain, infertility or impotence.

Note: base

TCM category: substances for topical application

Major chemical components: Osthole 10.42% (from GuangZhou extractor analysis).

Osthole has been used in treatments for inflamation, osteoperosis and tumors for many years. It has been the subject of numerous recent research studies that have found that Osthole: Inhibits alcohol or fat induced fatty liver disease, is a good candidate in treatment of Liver cancer because of its unique chemical structure, suppresses inflammatory responses, is as effective as 17 beta-estradiol to suppress bone loss and benefit those with osteoporosis, lowers blood pressure, inhibits platelet aggregation and inhibits smooth muscle contraction.