The clinical syndrome that results from decreased secretion of thyroid hormone from the thyroid gland. It leads to a slowing of metabolic processes and in its most severe form to the accumulation of mucopolysaccharides in the skin, causing a nonpitting edema termed myxedema. Cretinism is the congenital form leading to abnormalities of intellectual and physical development.
The recommended herbs are:
- Radix Rehmanniae,
- Fructus Corni,
- Rhizoma Dioscoreae,
- Fructus Lycii,
- Radix Aconiti Lateralis Preparata,
- Cortex Cinnamomi,
- Cornu Cervi Degelatinatum,
- Carapax et Plastrum,
- Radix Codonopsis
- Radix Paeoniae Alba, etc.