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Traditional Chinese Medicine/Xi Xin
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Xi-Slender
Xin-Spicy or hot in flavor
(Chinese: 细辛)
Asarum, Chinese Wild Ginger Shao-Qing Cai, Jie Yu, Xuan Wang, Rui-Qing Wang, Fu-Xiang Ran, Ming-Ying Shang, Jing-Rong Cui, Katsuko Komatsu, Tsuneo Namba. "Cytotoxic activity of some Asarum plants",
Fitoterapia, Volume 79, Issue 4, June 2008, Pages 293-297.
Taste & Temperature:
../Xin-Spicy/
../Wen-Warm/
Channels:
Hand Tai Yin of Lung (b/c Xin-Spicy?)
Foot Shao Yin of Kidney
Actions & Indications:
disperse Wind-Cold (Warm & Spicy)
Stop headache
Shao Yin headache (teeth/cold)
warm the Lung, transform Phlegm
very good analgesic
open nasal orifices
Contraindications:
Qi & Yin deficiency causing excessive sweating
profuse sweating due to Qi deficiency
headache due to Blood deficiency
cough due to Yin deficiency
Caution:
Yin syndrome
Blood deficiency
chronic skin infection
renal problem
Antagonize:
Shan Zhu Yu
Huang Qi
Counteract:
Hua Shi
Dosage:
.3-1 qian (1-3 grams)
back to:
../TCM Materia Medica/
../Xin Wen Jie Biao/
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