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Traditional Chinese Medicine/Gao Ben
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Chinese lovage root, ligusticum root
(Chinese name: 藁本)
Taste & Temperature:
../Xin-Spicy/
../Wen-Warm/
Channels:
Foot Tai Yang of Urinary Bladder
Actions & Indications:
disperse Wind-Cold (Warm & Spicy)
Expel Wind-Cold-Damp
Stop headache
Jue Yin headache (vertex)
Contraindications:
Qi & Yin deficiency causing excessive sweating
Blood/Yin deficiency, because it's drying
Caution:
Yin syndrome
Blood deficiency
chronic skin infection
Dosage:
1-3 qian (3-9 grams)
Similar Actions to:
../Qiang Huo/ - specialist Tai Yang headache; upper body Wind-Damp Bi pain
../Bai Zhi/ - specialist Yang Ming headache, toothache, nasal congestion
back to:
../TCM Materia Medica/
../Xin Wen Jie Biao/